Postcolonial Duras: Cultural Memory in Postwar France

ISBN-13: 9780312240004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 254 str.

Jane Bradley Winston

Opis

This book transforms our understanding of Marguerite Duras and a crucial swath of 20th-century French literary and cultural history by reading each through the lens of the other. This is the first book to read Duras in relation to colonial education, colonial propaganda, the postwar radicalization of left-wing intellectuals in France, and the work of artists of the African-American and Francophone Vietnamese diasporas.

Spis treści

The Rise Of The Spectacle: Critical Practice in a Modern Age, 1950-1958 Going International: Creoles, Criticism, and the French Colonial Subject,1960- 1996 Rationalizing Empire: Scientific Management, Colonial Education, and Cultural Placing Holocaust and Revolution: Communist Ethics, Lol V. Stein, and La Douleur Transatlantic Connections: Wright's Black Boy and Duras's Colon Girl Diaspora and Cultural Displacement: Linda Lê and Tran Anh Hung Works Cited

O autorze

JANE BRADLEY WINSTON is Assistant Professor of French at Northwestern University. Her volume, co-edited with Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue is forthcoming (Palgrave 2001). Winston has completed a manuscript 'White Borders and Cultural Change: the groupe de la rue Saint-Benoît' and is at work on a project concerned with Francophone women writers and filmmakers and the issue of utopia.