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Dans Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François examine les moyens par lesquels les littératures francophones émergentes nous amènent à penser autrement les violences du monde contemporain. In Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François examines the ways by which emerging Francophone literatures help readers rethink the dynamics of violence in our contemporary world.

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The scope of the study is impressive. It ranges across geographical locations including Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Iran, Madagascar, Martinique, Mauritius, and Morocco to identify a new generation of writers whose work develops a poetics to account for the crisis in the representation of violence and breaks with established aesthetic values. [...] Not only does the author carefully trace the evolution of contemporary concepts of violence and their thematic and formal manifestations in the works studied, but he draws from an impressive body of philosophical, sociological, and literary work to examine the aesthetic and ethical strategies of representation that the contemporary proliferation of violence in fiction has inspired. - Charlotte Baker, in French Studies 72-3, July 2018 Jean-Francois's book paves the way for novel theoretical approaches to questions of aesthetics and ethicality, offering compelling evidence of a transoceanic literary phenomenon underwriting the contemporary francophone novel. - Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, Modern Language Review, January 2018. La pensee d'Emmanuel Bruno Jean-Francois montre toute sa force et son acuite en interrogeant la question cruciale de la violence, de la facon de la comprendre, d'en rendre compte et de la representer, ainsi que des implications ethiques de cette representation qui se pose, a chaque jour de notre present et d'une actualite internationale tourmentes, avec plus de force. - Valerie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Nouvelles etudes francophones, 32.2, 2017. In amove that differentiates his work from those of other scholars working on la francophonie, Jean-Francois does not work exclusively from a postcolonial approach, even as he weaves it throughout his analysis. He incorporates theories from a variety of other disciplines, such as philosophy and psychoanalysis. In addition, he divides his chapters thematically, rather than geographically, resulting in his decentering of the texts to create an analytical network of encounters, ruptures, and continuities. [...] Jean-Francois's monograph is a useful resource for scholars meditating on literary and historical violence, particularly given its exhaustive line of inquiry. Scholars interested in broader questions of poetics and the contemporary will also benefit from the insights offered by this study. - Nanar Khamo, French Review, 92.2.

The scope of the study is impressive. It ranges across geographical locations including Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Iran, Madagascar, Martinique, Mauritius, and Morocco to identify a new generation of writers whose work develops a poetics to account for the crisis in the representation of violence and breaks with established aesthetic values. [...] Not only does the author carefully trace the evolution of contemporary concepts of violence and their thematic and formal manifestations in the works studied, but he draws from an impressive body of philosophical, sociological, and literary work to examine the aesthetic and ethical strategies of representation that the contemporary proliferation of violence in fiction has inspired. - Charlotte Baker in French Studies 72-3, July 2018

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Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François, PhD (2012), University of Mauritius, is a Marian Trygve Freed Early Career Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has published numerous articles, namely on representations of violence in Francophone literatures. Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François, docteur ès lettres (Université de Maurice, 2012) occupe actuellement la chaire Marian Trygve Freed du département d’études françaises et francophones de Pennsylvania State University. Ses nombreuses publications examinent tout particulièrement les représentations de la violence dans les littératures francophones.

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