Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English

ISBN-13: 9780367871512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Peter I. Barta; Phil Powrie

Opis

This book focuses on bicultural literature and film in English or French by those not working in their native language, exploring works by European and North African artists for their explicitly multifocal representation of authors’ experiences of their native languages and cultures. Essays consider work by the peripheral and those without a cou

Spis treści

Introduction Peter I. Barta and Phil Powrie 1. Prologue: ‘Le langage latin m’est comme naturel’: Montaigne and the Trials of Trilingualism Philip Ford  Part 1 :Reframing Space to Accommodate Displacement  2. Reframing métissage: The Politics of Transcultural Space in Abdellatif Kechiche’s La faute à Voltaire/Blame it on Voltaire (2000) James S. Williams  3. The Mediation of Difference in London River (Rachid Bouchareb, 2009) Carrie Tarr  4. The Location of the Bicultural: The Coast in Three Maghrebi-French Films Phil Powrie  5. Ten’ja (Legzouli, 2004): Displacing the Accent and the Myth of Return in Francophone Diasporic Cinema Will Higbee  6. Tehran, Vienna, Paris: The Cultural Geographies of Persepolis Cristina Johnston  7. Second Languages, Second Births: Karin Albou, Ronit Elkabetz, and the Rediscovery of Mediterranean Jewish Multilingualism Robert Watson  Part 2: Writing the Self Between Two Cultures  8. The French Writings of Alexander Herzen Derek Offord  9. English and French in Olga Voyeikova’s Letters Peter I. Barta and Véronique Jobert  10. ‘Un peu de vraie conversation . . . un peu de colloque’: Samuel Beckett as Bicultural Writer Corinne Scheiner  11. Joseph Conrad, Bilingualism, Trilingualism, Plurilingualism Robert Hampson  12. Outside-In, or l’Entre-deux: Elsa Triolet’s Early Fiction in French Claire Davison-Pégon 13. The Murder of the Mother Tongue: Agota Kristof’s The Notebook Andrea Timár  14. Translating Culture: Linguistic Attachment, Detachment and (Self)-Narration Fiona J. Doloughan  15. Epilogue: Here Not There: Writing Outside the Mother Tongue Elleke Boehmer

O autorze

Peter I. Barta is Professor Emeritus in the School of English and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK and Professor of Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, US.

Phil Powrie is Professor of Cinema Studies and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK.