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  • Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds

    Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing

    by Kate Averis, Isabel Hollis-Touré ...
    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women’s writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have ... Read more

    $35.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds

    Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing

    by Kate Averis, Isabel Hollis-Touré ...
    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women’s writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have ... Read more

    $34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing

    by Kate Averis ...
    Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may be a propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, appropriating a new freedom ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • World Writing

    Poetics, Ethics, Globalization

    by Mary Gallagher ...
    Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of literature. World Writing is therefore concerned with studying the intersection of contemporary ethics, poetics, and globalization through ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Édouard Glissant

    A Poetics of Resistance

    by Sam Coombes ...
    Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • 7 lies of feminism

    by Lucia Canovi ...
    7 lies of feminismCan feminism be proven by any sort of logic? Does its rhetoric still hold against meticulous examination? By reading this small book, you will discover and analyse seven lies of so-called "universalist" feminism. A feminism that advocates skirts for men and mini-skirts for women walking about alone at night...About the authorWinner of six literary prizes and specialist in ... Read more

    $4.75 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

    by F. Elizabeth Dahab ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Transcontinental Maghreb

    Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean

    by Edwige Tamalet Talbayev ...
    The writer Gabriel Audisio once called the Mediterranean a “liquid continent.” Taking up the challenge issued by Audisio’s phrase, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev insists that we understand the region on both sides of the Mediterranean through a “transcontinental” heuristic. Rather than merely read the Maghreb in the context of its European colonizers from across the Mediterranean, Talbayev compellingly ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Bourdieu and Literature

    by John R.W. Speller ...
    Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood

    Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures

    by Ayo A. Coly ...
    While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Les Belles Étrangères

    Canadians in Paris

    by Jane Koustas ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons for the move away from Quebec translators as well as the process and perils involved in this detour ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Migrant Text

    Making and Marketing a Global French Literature

    by Subha Xavier ...
    The expression "littérature migrante," coined by Québécois critics in the mid-1980s, reflected the emerging body of literary works written by recent immigrants to the province. Redefining the concept of migrancy, Subha Xavier’s The Migrant Text argues that global movements of people have fundamentally changed literary production over the past thirty years.Bringing together a corpus of recent ... Read more

    $36.89 USD