The body in Francophone literature: historical, thematic and aesthetic perspectives

"Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of t...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ndiaye, El Hadji Malick (HerausgeberIn), Sow, Moussa 1953-2021 (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, inc., publishers [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:"Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body...both corporeal and figurative"
Beschreibung:Aus der Einleitung: "This volume is composed of essays that were presented during a panel at the 43rd annual conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in 2012 in Rochester, New York."
Beschreibung:viii, 174 Seiten
ISBN:9780786494668