The Body In Francophone Literature: Historical, Thematic And Aesthetic Perspectives

Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.

• | Author: El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Moussa Sow
• | Publisher: Mcfarland & Company
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 184 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0786494662
• | ISBN-13: 9780786494668