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The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taa and frames the distinctiveness of his migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality.

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This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian literary production.

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This book examines autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes written by ethnic minority women writers in early twenty-first century France. In their publications, select authors denounce the ethnic hierarchies created and propagated by French institutions, and contend with the neocolonial marketing practices of key metropolitan publishers.

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This book examines autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes written by ethnic minority women writers in early twenty-first century France. In their publications, select authors denounce the ethnic hierarchies created and propagated by French institutions, and contend with the neocolonial marketing practices of key metropolitan publishers.

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Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial effortsin Algeria. Employing literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it provides a new perspective on literary works from the French colonial period, while addressing questions of history, trauma, memory, and culture.

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Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial effortsin Algeria. Employing literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it provides a new perspective on literary works from the French colonial period, while addressing questions of history, trauma, memory, and culture.

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This book is situated between studies of the material object of the book and Algerian women's writing. It examines the iconographic depictions on book covers of three of the most studied francophone writers today, Assia Djebar, Nina Bouraoui, and Malika Mokeddem, among others, and shows how these covers have controlled the reception and interpretation of Algerian women's writing.

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The contributions of this volume explore the political, social, and cultural legacies of May 68 revolt in France and similar protest movements in other nations around the globe. These events share a global utopian imaginary which found expression in a variety of artistic productions.

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This book investigates how literary and more general conceptions of French colonialism were influenced by an awareness of how rival European powers had negotiated conquest and disengagement from empire. It illustrates how perceived loss and nostalgia for imperial pasts helped shape the French colonial enterprise across its various manifestations.

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Undoubtedly one of Africas most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. This book examines this figure within the context of his career-long preoccupation with the production of culture.

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Undoubtedly one of Africas most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. This book examines this figure within the context of his career-long preoccupation with the production of culture.

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This volume explores what it is that has brought marginalized writers together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period to the present millennium, we consider the questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write.

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This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962. It breaks new ground by focusing on the family trope, including gender and youth, to reveal constructions of collective memory and identity post-Algerian independence.

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This book uses a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France to show how the collective memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. It incorporates trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, examining a diverse group of writers and bringing to the fore the unique perspective of each.

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This volume brings together scholars working in different languagesCreole, French, English, Spanishand modes of cultural productionliterature, art, film, musicto suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom.

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This volume brings together scholars working in different languagesCreole, French, English, Spanishand modes of cultural productionliterature, art, film, musicto suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom.

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This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. It argues that works of literature build an archive allowing the articulation of hidden histories and pays homage to the missing Algerian father, outcast of hegemonic narratives.

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Spaces of Creation examines the creative and synergistic potential of mothers and daughters in diverse Francophone societies. The study reveals that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women.

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Spaces of Creation examines the creative and synergistic potential of mothers and daughters in diverse Francophone societies. The study reveals that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women.

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State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship studies the invisibility of visible minorities in a space relegated to the periphery of major French cities.

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State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship studies the invisibility of visible minorities in a space relegated to the periphery of major French cities.