Overview

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, and in turn, our everyday experiences are informed by sounds ranging from voices, to music, to advertising, to bombs, and beyond. In considering cultural works from French-speaking North Africa and the Middle East all published or released in France from 1962-2011, Solheim’s study of listening across cultural genres will be of interest to any scholar or lay person curious about contemporary postcolonial France. This book is also a primer to contemporary Francophone culture from North Africa and the Middle East. Some of the French-speaking world’s most renowned and adored artists are the subject of this study, including preeminent Algerian feminist novelist, filmmaker and historian Assia Djebar (1936-2015), the first writer of the Maghreb to become part of the Académie Française; celebrated Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, Chicken with Plums); the lauded Lebanese-Québecois playwright and dramaturge Wajdi Mouawad (Littorial, Incendies), and Lebanese comic artist and avant jazz trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, whose improvisation with Israeli fighter jets during the 2006 Israeli War, “Starry Night,” catapulted him to global recognition. An interdisciplinary study of contemporary Francophone cultures, this book will be of interest to French scholars and students in literary studies, performance studies, gender studies, anthropology, history, and ethnomusicology.

Full Product Details

9781800855779

Table of Contents

Reviews

Reviews ‘Solheim is clearly very able to read in critical depth and offers some original insights … which would have a significant shelf life and broad readership not only in music and cultural studies, but also in sound studies, sociology, history and perhaps even literary studies.’ Helen Julia Minors, Kingston University 'In The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture, Jennifer Solheim foregrounds an important and often overlooked aspect of cultural analysis: the call to listen...The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture is a fascinating and compelling project.' Claire Launchbury, H-France Review

Reviews 'Solheim is clearly very able to read in critical depth and offers some original insights ... which would have a significant shelf life and broad readership not only in music and cultural studies, but also in sound studies, sociology, history and perhaps even literary studies.' Helen Julia Minors, Kingston University 'In The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture, Jennifer Solheim foregrounds an important and often overlooked aspect of cultural analysis: the call to listen...The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture is a fascinating and compelling project.' Claire Launchbury, H-France Review

Author Information

Jennifer Solheim is an independent scholar of French and Francophone Studies. She received her degree from University of Michigan in French in 2011 and currently works as a freelance academic editor. You can learn more about her work at www.jennifersolheim.com.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available