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This book provides a vital new reading of documentary and realist fiction film of the French 1930s that focuses on how these genres interlock their representations of urban spaces and places.
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This book reconsiders authorship by the descendants of North African immigrants to France by consulting how these authors’ novels have been discussed and promoted in the national audio-visual media.
A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.
Montmartre: A Cultural History offers an engaging tour of one of the most fascinating areas of Paris, exploring a rich history from the Belle Epoque to the Occupation. The work explores many iconic areas of Paris, such as the Moulin-Rouge and Sacré-Coeur.
By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how "French thought" is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism
Marking five years since the devasting Haitian earthquake, this important book explores the impact of the catastrophe on the literature of Haiti.
A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide.
Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the contemporary French lyric in the translingual Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it reveals three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into French in works by Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Salah Stétié (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan).
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. With the rise of the novel and of autobiography, the literary and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century France reconfigured both the ways literature could represent subjects and the ways subjects related to space. In the first-person works of these authors, maps situate the narrator within the imaginary space of the novel. Yet the time inherent in the text’s narrative unsettles the spatial self drawn by the maps and so creates a novel self, one which is both new and literary. The novel self transcends the rigid confines of a map. In this significant study, Patrick M. Bray charts a new direction in critical theory.