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The colonial fortune in contemporary fiction in French / Oana Panaïté.

By: Panaite, Oana [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 46.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786948144 (ebook)Subject(s): French literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism | French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | African literature (French) -- 21st century -- History and criticism | African literature (French) -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Imperialism in literature | Colonies in literatureAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 843.92093581 LOC classification: PQ317.C54 | P36 2017Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

A primal scene : the colonial fortune -- Part 1. From exotic destinations to colonial destinies. 1. Departures : orphans, heirs and adventurers ; 2. Landscape as vocation -- Part 2. Writing as Africans. 3. Distant empathy ; 4. Maps of Frenchness : between self-invention and delusion -- Part 3. Colonial remanence. 5. Algeria's mortified memory ; 6. A place of dialogue -- An unpayable debt : for a paracolonial aesthetics.

Summary: "The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule Constant, Édouard Glissant, Tierno Monénembo, Marie NDiaye, and Leïla Sebbar) or who do not overtly manifest such concerns (Stéphane Audeguy, Marie Darrieussecq, Régis Jauffret, Pierre Michon, and Claude Simon), these works create a shared imaginary space permeated by the symbolic, rhetorical, and conceptual presence colonialism in our postcolonial era. The paracolonial describes the phenomena of revival, resurgence, remanence, and residue - in other words, the permanence of the colonial in contemporary imagination. It also addresses the re-imagining, revisiting, and recasting of the colonial in current works of literature (fiction, autobiography, and essay). The idea of the colonial fortune emerges as an interface between our era's concerns with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt stemming from the understudied persistence of the colonial in today's political and cultural conversation, and literature's ways of making sense of them both sensorially and sensibly.

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"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule Constant, Édouard Glissant, Tierno Monénembo, Marie NDiaye, and Leïla Sebbar) or who do not overtly manifest such concerns (Stéphane Audeguy, Marie Darrieussecq, Régis Jauffret, Pierre Michon, and Claude Simon), these works create a shared imaginary space permeated by the symbolic, rhetorical, and conceptual presence colonialism in our postcolonial era. The paracolonial describes the phenomena of revival, resurgence, remanence, and residue - in other words, the permanence of the colonial in contemporary imagination. It also addresses the re-imagining, revisiting, and recasting of the colonial in current works of literature (fiction, autobiography, and essay). The idea of the colonial fortune emerges as an interface between our era's concerns with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt stemming from the understudied persistence of the colonial in today's political and cultural conversation, and literature's ways of making sense of them both sensorially and sensibly.

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