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1 online resource |
| Series |
Francophone postcolonial studies ; 5
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Francophone postcolonial studies ; 5.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European society, culture and history. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Francophone Afropeans / Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas -- Essays: Afropeanism and francophone Sub-Saharan African writing / Dominic Thomas -- The transatlantic poetics of Fatou Diome / Kathryn M. Lachman. Corps sans titre : "fleshiness" and Afropean identity in Bessora's 53 cm / John Nimis -- Already here : Sami Tchak's Afropean generation / Allison Van Deventer -- Paris polar : Afropean noir in the City of Light / Dawn Fulton -- Mapping Afropea : the translation of Black Paris in the fiction of Alain Mabanckou / John Patrick Walsh -- Relighting stars and bazaars of voices : exchange and dialogue in Leonora Miano's Tels des astres etients and Alain Mabanckou's Black bazar / Kathryn Kleppinger -- Sex and the Afropean city : Leonora Miano's Blues pour Elise / Nicki Hitchcott -- Towards an Afropean cosmopolitanism : hospitality, friendship and the African immigrant / Srilata Ravi -- Afropean masculinities as bricolage / Ayo A. Coly -- Short stories: The old man and the boat / Fatou Diome -- The rain-maker affair / Leonora Miano -- The squirrels of Wannsee / Abdourahman A. Waheri -- Francasterix / Wilfried N'Sonde -- At the borders of my skin / Sami Tchak -- Confessions of a sapeur / Alain Mabanckou. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
African literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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Europe -- In literature.
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Africa -- Civilization -- Western influences.
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Europe -- Civilization -- African influences.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. |
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African literature (French) |
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Civilization -- African influences. |
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Civilization -- Western influences. |
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Literature. |
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Africa. |
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Europe. |
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18.26 French literature outside Europe. |
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short stories.
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novels.
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Novels.
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Short stories.
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Literary criticism.
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Fiction.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Literary criticism.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Hitchcott, Nicki, editor.
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Thomas, Dominic Richard David, editor.
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Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, issuing body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Francophone Afropean literatures. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014 9781781380345 1781380341 (DLC) 2013497689 (OCoLC)868082803 |
| ISBN |
9781781387184 (electronic bk.) |
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1781387184 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781385906 (electronic bk.) |
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1781385904 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781380345 |
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1781380341 |
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