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Boris Vian Transatlantic
Boris Vian lived during a period of redefinition in France, from the instability of the Thirties, through the German Occupation, then into the friendly if overwhelming presence of the American liberators. Vian resisted identification with the movements now associated with mid-century French literary and intellectual history - surrealism, existentialism, the absurd - while creating a multifaceted oeuvre that owed and contributed something to them all. This study concentrates, however, on the importance of American influences on Vian's extensive jazz activities and his mock translations of American noir novels under the name Vernon Sullivan. Vian personally embodied the increasingly transatlantic nature of Western culture and the melding of elite and popular forms of expression. The diverse components of this synthesis shed light on the construction of both individual and national identity in post-war France.
Understanding Céline
Solomon examines the principal themes and structures of the novels of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine, taking into account his theatre, anti-Semitic pamphlets, and critical works. A biographical introduction and a chronology note the historical and private events that shaped the author's life and influenced his development as a writer. An overview of Celine's writings explores the author's vision of the human condition and his perception of the redemptive value of the work of art by which the disorder of life is resolved by the order of writing. Emphasis is placed on the self-reflective nature of Celine's fiction, particularly on the function of the mythologized head wound to express th...
The Golden Age of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ch. 5 (pp. 148-201), "Antisemitism and the Ghost of Drumont", deals with Céline's three antisemitic pamphlets: "Bagatelles pour un massacre" (1937), "L'école des cadavres" (1938), "Les beaux draps" (1940). Céline claimed that the Jews controlled France through international finance and would eventually dominate the world. He quoted liberally from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", supported the racial theories of Hitler, and encouraged violence against Jews.
French XX Bibliography
Provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. This book is for the study of French literature and culture.
Penser l’entre-deux
"Placé sous le signe de la pluridisciplinarité, ce colloque a réuni 31 enseignants chercheurs venus de différents horizons intellectuels -- hispanistes, anglicistes, historiens, géographes, créolistes, spécialistes de littérature française et d'esthétique, experts en communication -- qui durant deux journées se sont attachés à définir le concept d'entre-deux et à explorer les multiples voies, convergentes ou divergentes, qu'il offre à l'esprit. Il s'est agi, par une approche à la fois diachronique et synchronique, de parcourir un vaste espace incluant l'Ancien Monde et le Nouveau Monde, à la recherche de zones, concrètes et imaginaires, favorables aux manifestations de l'entre-deux : chocs de cultures, conflits de pouvoir, identité multiple ..."-- [p. 4 de la p. de couv.].
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.
French XX Bibliography
Provides the listing of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. It contains nearly 8,800 entries.
Discursive Geographies / Géographies discursives
The present collection of essays follows in the wake of recent work in cultural geography challenging the idea that maps are scientifically neutral entities, or that space, unlike time, is immobile. In defining space, place and geography as forms of textuality, the essays collected in this volume examine the ways in which postcolonial and metropolitan literary and filmic texts in French can at once inscribe and produce place and space, and thereby participate in forms of “discursive geographies.” Contributors: François Bon; Alexandre Dauge-Roth; Habiba Deming; Zakaria Fatih; Jeanne Garane; Patricia Geesey; Greg Hainge; Sirène Harb; Jean-Luc Joly; Chantal Kalisa; Michel Laronde; Valérie Loichot; Mary McCullough; Michael O’Riley; Pascale Perraudin; Walter Putnam; Antoine Stéphani; Abdourahman A. Waberi.
