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French Sound Structure
A comprehensive, detailed, and well-illustrated undergraduate French language/linguistics textbook with CD-ROM. The book focuses on pronunciation of Modern Standard French, and incorporates regional and social variations, abbreviatory processes and 'word play'. It looks at historical phonological changes which continue through today. Perfect for readers and learners with little or no formal training in linguistics. The CD-ROM provides invaluable oral examples crucial to linguistic study.
Crossover Fiction
In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, education, psychology, and sociology examine the increasingly blurred borderlines between adults and young people in contemporary society, notably with regard to their consumption of popular culture.
From Menstruation to the Menopause
This book examines the representation of the female fertility cycle in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French women's writing. It focuses on menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause whilst also incorporating experiences such as miscarriage and abortion. This study frames its analysis of contemporary women's writing by looking back to the pioneering work of the second-wave feminists. Second-wave feminist texts were the first to break the silence on key aspects of female experience which had thus far been largely overlooked or considered taboo. Second-wave feminist works have been criticised for applying their 'universal' theories to all women, regardless of their ethnicity, socio-eco...
Re-Imagining the First World War
In the Preface to his ground-breaking The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), Paul Fussell claimed that “the dynamics and iconography of the Great War have proved crucial political, rhetorical, and artistic determinants on subsequent life.” Forty years after the publication of Fussell’s study, the contributors to this volume reconsider whether the myth generated by World War I is still “part of the fiber of [people’s] lives” in English-speaking countries. What is the place of the First World War in cultural memory today? How have the literary means for remembering the war changed since the war? Can anything new be learned from the effort to re-imagine the First World War after ot...
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Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women
This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature."
Inclusion & Exclusion in/au Canada
The volume convenes English- and French-speaking Canadianists who share a broad reflection on issues of exclusion and inclusion in Canadian contexts. It is through historical, but also linguistic, cultural and literary perspectives that we can unveil and learn more about the particular instances of inclusion and exclusion. The volume offers a kaleidoscopic view of Canadian history, politics, literature, and culture. The collected essays provide a discussion on a number of contemporary Anglophone and Francophone literary works, the evaluation of Canadian language policy, the reflection upon the literary canon as well as challenges of literary translation in a bilingual country, the distinctness of Black Lives Matter Canada, and, last but not the least, the historical status of New France.
Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains
Face à la surenchère des représentations médiatiques, artistiques et iconographiques de la violence, en quoi consiste le contre-discours qu’articulent les littératures francophones émergentes pour penser les violences du monde contemporain ? En adoptant une approche comparatiste et largement interdisciplinaire, mettant en évidence le travail esthétique et l’engagement éthique d’écrivains issus d’aires géographiques diverses, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François tente, dans Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, de répondre à cette question en mettant en dialogue des récits qui, au constat d’une représentation en crise, d’une banalisation et d’u...
Langages et écritures de l'exil
La réflexion que propose Langages et écritures de l'exil, avec une attention particulière portée à des textes de L'Ouest canadien comme terre d'asile et terre d'exil, cherche à faire ressortir le caractère fondamentalement ambivalent de l'exil, dont Edward Said a pu écrire qu'il « constitue étrangement un sujet de réflexion fascinant », et à témoigner de la propension apodictique de l'esprit humain à dire, à raconter, à construire et à se construire, par la parole ou par l'écriture, des récits qui partagent la souffrance, hurlent l'angoisse, clament une identité, revendiquent une voix. Cet ouvrage collectif regroupe des textes rassemblés à la suite d'un colloque international à l'University of Calgary tenu à l'automne 2014 et placé sous le patronage du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, de l'University of Alberta, de l'University of Calgary et de l'Université François-Rabelais de Tours.
Ananda Devi
Ananda Devi: Feminism, Narration and Polyphony is the first full-length monograph devoted to Ananda Devi, a dynamic contemporary Francophone writer. Recipient of Prix Louis-Guilloux and Prix Télévision Suisse Romande du Roman, she is described by many as a prototype of a new generation of Mauritian writers. This book analyses Devi’s unconventional polyphonic narratives, particularly, her strategies that allow marginalized narrators to disrupt androcentric and dominant structures of narrative construction, thereby creating hybrid magical spaces for feminine expression. Drawing on the notion of feminist narratology that investigates the relation between gender and narrative, this book focu...
