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  • The Affective Negotiation of Slum Tourism

    City Walks in Delhi

    by Tore Holst ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology
    Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India.Slum tours are typically framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a price ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Another Life / Une autre vie

    by Roopika Risam, Myriam Moïse, Sabine Lauret, Angeline O'Neill, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain, Mark Froud, Mathilde Rogez, Cyril Dabydeen, Savrina Chinien, Fred d'Aguiar, Tore Holst, Eric Doumerc, Yolaine Parisot, Priya Menon, S. J. Mark Destephano, Madeleine Laurencin, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Marie-Célie Agnant ...
    Series series Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
    Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise. The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are shown to lie in Western, dichotomously structured thinking. Through offshoots of the civilised-versus-savage dichotomy, namely ... Read more

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  • Translating Women

    Edited by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware of the practices, purposes and possibilities of gender in translation. Translating Women revives ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

    by Yaël Schlick ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Les Misérables and Its Afterlives

    Between Page, Stage, and Screen

    by Kathryn M. Grossman, Bradley Stephens ...
    Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations. In spite of a mixed response from critics, Les Misérables instantly became a global bestseller. Since its successful publication over 150 years ago, it has traveled across different countries, cultures, and media, giving rise to more than 60 international ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Packaging Post/Coloniality

    The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World

    by Richard Watts ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the "paratext"-the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords that enclose the text-mediates creative works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the ... Read more

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  • Interpreting the Republic

    Marginalization and Belonging in Contemporary French Novels and Films

    by Vinay Swamy ...
    Interpreting the Republic focuses on contemporary French literary and cinematic works (1986-2003) that reflect on what it means to belong to a nation such as France by giving voice to those who find themselves marginalized by French society. While citizenship and belonging can be, and indeed are, interpreted differently depending on the socio-cultural and political context, it is the foundational ... Read more

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