Contemporary Fiction in French

ISBN-13: 9781108475792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Anna-Louise Milne; France) Russell Williams (The American University of Paris

Opis

Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.

Recenzje

'… reading the twelve essays in this collection is like taking a trip into the unknown, or to a recently discovered land, with an expert as guide … Each essay, written by an international scholar, gives life to the complex temporal and spatial dynamics of contemporary fiction … Essential.' C. B. Kerr, CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction: Mapping the contemporary Anna-Louise Milne and Russell Williams; 1. Mediterranean francophone writing Edwige Tamalet Talbayev; 2. After the experiment Simon Kemp; 3. Getting a future: Fiction and social reproduction Anna-Louise Milne; 4. Contemporary French fiction and the world: Transnationalism, translingualism and the limits of genre Charles Forsdick; 5. The Franco-American novel Russell Williams; 6. Graphic novel revolution(s) Laurence Grove; 7. 'Back in the USSR': The prose of Andreï Makine and Antoine Volodine Helena Duffy; 8. Fictions of self Shirley Jordan; 9. Trauma, transmission, repression Maxim Silverman; 10. Wretched of the Sea: Boat people and narratives of displacement Subha Xavier; 11. Urban Dystopias Gillian Jein; 12. Imagining civil war in the contemporary French novel Martin Crowley.