Writing After Postcolonialism

Francophone North African Literature in Transition

Dr Jane Hiddleston (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-02279-9 (ISBN)

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‘Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of ‘postcolonialism’ is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature in society and politics during this period. Whilst analysing the ways in which writers from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have reacted to political unrest and social dissatisfaction, Jane Hiddleston offers a compelling reflection on literature’s ability to interrogate the postcolonial nation as well as on its own uncertain role in the current context. The book sets out both to situate the recent generation of francophone writers in North Africa in relation to contemporary politics, to postcolonial theory, and evolving notions of ‘world literature, and to probe the ways in which a new and highly sophisticated set of writers reflect on the very notion of ‘the literary’ during this period of transition.’

Jane Hiddleston is Fellow and Tutor in French at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK. Her previous books include Understanding Postcolonialism (2009) and Postructuralism and Postcoloniality (2010).

Introduction

Chapter One: Postcolonialism, World Literature, and the Thousand and One Nights

Chapter Two: Why Write? Literature According to its Authors

Chapter Three: Writing for Others: The Public Writer and the Ghost Writer

Chapter Four: Rewriting the Past: Literature and History

Chapter Five: Creating Reality: Literature and Life

Chapter Six: Writing between Languages: Literature as Translation

Chapter Seven: Francophone Letters: Literature as Encounter

Chapter Eight: The Power of Reading: Living with/through Books

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-02279-9 / 1350022799
ISBN-13	978-1-350-02279-9 / 9781350022799
Zustand	Neuware