Books from Contemporary French and Franco
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Migration and Refuge: An Eco-archive of Haitian Literature, 1982-2017
By John Patrick Walsh3 In their fascinating work on ties between King Henry Christophe's court (1811–1820) and several European governments (notably England and Germany), Tabitha McIntosh and Grégory Pierrot discuss a range of artwork, official papers, ...
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Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961
By Lia BrozgalAbsent the Archive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters.
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The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin
By Emma WilsonThis book, a sensuous evocation of images of the reclining nude, claims a female-identified pleasure in looking.
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Beyond Return: Genre and Cultural Politics in Contemporary French Fiction
By Lucas Hollisteren dix leçons, leçon onze (Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven)—the former one of his lesser-known works, while the latter is frequently read as a kind of explicatory text or manifesto. When one examines the post-exotic ...
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Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond
By Jane Hiddleston, Khalid LyamlahyThe symbolic and spiritual aspect of the narrator's visions of his mother is further stressed in the link between 'notre ... Additionally, the mother who belongs to an unseen realm appears to the narrator 'à l'intérieur même' ['in the ...
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Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France
By Charles Forsdick, Etienne Achille, Lydie Moudileno... Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Rossignol, Aurélie. 2016. 'Dans le rétro. Il y a 20 ans, l'expulsion des sans-papiers de l'église Saint-Bernard'. Le Parisien, 23 August 2016 ...
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Leftovers: Eating, Drinking and Re-thinking with Case Studies from Post-war French Fiction
By Ruth Cruickshank... Extreme in Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme', in Autour de l'extrême littéraire, ed. Alastair Hemmens, and Russell Williams (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars: 2012), pp. 112–23. Rozin, Paul, 'The Selection of Foods by Rats, Humans ...
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Making Waves: French Feminisms and Their Legacies 1975-2015
By Alison S. Fell, Margaret Atack, Diana HolmesThrough a critical exploration of the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, this book evaluates the achievements and legacies of second wave French feminism for subsequent 'waves', including the movement's contemporary ...