Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780367637538 / Miękka / 2023 / 172 str.

South Africa) Moji Polo B. (University of Cape Town

Opis

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates differentiated readings of blackness in European spaces. The book explores the spatial negotiations of Afroeuropean woman in France, through the figure of the black flâneuse.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: The Long Shadow of Marianne  1. I wonder as I wander: AfroFrench visuality and walking as method   2. The map is not the territory: francophonie and the errant writer  3. Black or French: voicing the borders of black France  Part II: Blackness Intra Muros  4. Naming into place: Afropeanism as a poetics of relation 5. Zara in the metro: geographic variability and the ethnographic gaze   6. Re-imagining AfroParisianism: blackness encoded; spatiality decoded  Conclusion: black spatiality and the search for ouverture

O autorze

Polo B. Moji completed her PhD at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.