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African Migration and the Novel
This book "explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking, and political violence through the lens of novels of African migration. [It] details how authors such as Chika Unigwe, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, In Koli Jean Bofane, Boubacar Boris Diop, and others develop 'the migratory imagination': the creative means mobilized within their novels to expose the reader to contemporary social issues. Drawing on and synthesizing a multitude of theoretical frameworks including ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, genre studies, Black studies, paratextual reading, and political economy, the book argues for the flexibility of the migration novel as a genre"--
Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots
Migration is both a demographic and a cultural phenomenon. As such, it both reshapes the global village and subverts the all-encompassing vision of the city, a space split between the blending of all new cultures and the need felt by many migrants to maintain their traditions and thereby contribute to a multicultural mosaic. This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant movements to these cities from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Quebec, Indochina, and the Indian Ocean have produced new groups of intersecting cultures. Under the dual influences of the...
Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature
The study of masculinities and gender identity in contemporary literature is relatively new and, with each year of this millennium, gains momentum. Indeed, as the women’s movement becomes forceful in developing nations, the question of tolerance to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transvestites undergoes a similar process. At a time when women refuse to be subjected to war crimes, when they begin entering the workforce and realize the need to support their families independently, and when they refuse to remain in abusive marriages or remain silent in countries, where governments ignore their needs, men and women are questioning the meaning of gender in their culture and often seek alternativ...
Concrete Flowers
Behind the bars on her window, Rosa Maria dreams of sunshine, love, calm, and leaving the city where she lives with her family. She suffers her father's beatings, hides her femininity behind shapeless clothing, and pines for the beautiful Jason as she awaits her opportunity to flee. Meanwhile, her older brother is found dead in a nearby parking lot, and the neighborhood explodes in a riot against the police. Rosa Maria resolves to act before she is devoured by family intrigues and despair. Wilfried N'Sondé's powerful voice creates a palpable sense of the absence of hope and the social and racial isolation that pervade the Paris projects, even as he never abandons the expansive capacity of individuals to dream of better lives beyond a seemingly hopeless reality.
Borders
In Borders, Jean-Michel André questions the notion of border, a question which takes the form of a wandering, whose starting point is in the Jungle of Calais on the eve of the evacuation of the slum in 2016. André pursued the project over three years in France, Italy, Spain and Tunisia - anywhere there were refugees in search of shelter, anywhere there were men, women and children brought together by the same hope of crossing one final stretch of water. With these images of the Jungle, he mixes various fragments of landscapes to form a visual palimpsest. These silent places never cease to signify partition, rupture and desolation and exhale the vertigo of emptiness. Desires from elsewhere become dust and smoke in these spaces where the human figure, photographed isolated and from behind, is located on a threshold, between reality and imagination, memory and present.With accompanying texts by writer Wilfried N'Sondé, whose novels follow similar themes, together André and N'Sondé combine their disciplines the creation being Borders which is neither a linear series nor narrative - rather a collection of works.
The Heart of the Leopard Children
A nameless young man lives in the housing projects outside of Paris. When he was a child, his parents moved with him from the Congo to France, hoping in vain to escape poverty and violence. His best friend, Drissa, is in a psychiatric hospital and now Mireille, his girlfriend, the woman with whom he has shared his childhood and hopes, has left him to reconnect with her Jewish roots in Israel. During a night out to drown the pain of his heartache, there is a fight with a policeman, the policeman dies, and the young man is arrested and taken to jail. Between police beatings and abrupt interrogations, his memory becomes his sole ally to escape from the exiguous space in which he is confined. Ha...
Literature and Cartography
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq. Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars to consider the relationship of literature and cartography. Generously illustrated with full-color maps and visualizations, it offers the first systematic overview of an emerging approach to the study of literature. The literary map is not merely an illustrati...
Des littératures-mondes en français
Des littératures-mondes en français se propose de réfléchir à une série de questions consubstantielles à la littérature française contemporaine. On entend par là aussi bien des questions que les textes et les écrivains posent à leurs lecteurs que des interrogations auxquelles œuvres et auteurs sont appelés à répondre. De quelles manières ces textes et ceux qui les produisent conçoivent-ils leur place dans la communauté littéraire? Quels types de relations entretiennent-ils avec le passé, littéraire ou historique? Quelles catégories orientent leur horizon esthétique et quelles solutions individuelles chaque texte apporte-t-il à nos inquiétudes partagées? Adoptant une perspective critique à l’égard de Pour une littérature-monde, cet essai montre, à partir d’un large corpus, que l’on ne saurait comprendre la valeur esthétique et les enjeux politiques de la littérature actuelle sans dépasser les frontières géographiques, politiques, culturelles et institution¬nelles de ce que l’on appelle communément « la littérature française ».
Wrackmente
Venedig ist überschwemmt, Europas Grenzen sind dicht, Touristen werden aus Hubschraubern abgeseilt. Das Schicksal der untergehenden Stadt wird zum Schicksal ihrer Bewohner, denn wer dort lebt, ist außerhalb staatenlos. ›Wrackmente‹ erzählt die Geschichte von Marlène, Leandro, Dirk und Helen, Gefangene einer Stadt, die täglich tiefer im Wasser verschwindet. »Als die Flut kam, brachen nach den Dämmen die Menschen auseinander. Seither treiben sie umher wie Schiffbrüchige, vereinzelte Wrackmente, die sich zu keinem Ganzen mehr fügen.«
