This book is situated between studies of the material object of the book and Algerian women’s writing. It examines the iconographic depictions on book covers of three of the most studied francophone w
The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the French language postcolonial writing of the Indian Ocean islands_Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, the Seychelles_to an Anglophone audience. Concen
Spaces of Creation examines the creative and synergistic potential of mothers and daughters in diverse Francophone societies. The study reveals that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societi
From its early focus on documentary film and nation building to its more recent spotlight on contemporary culture and feature filmmaking, Moroccan cinema has undergone tremendous change since the coun
Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond explores the Beur/banlieue literary and cultural field from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present. It examines the struggles of author-characters to
This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-centu
Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number
This book demonstrates how the invisibility of women in Gabon has led to the omission of Gabon’s literature from the African canon, and discusses the unique elements of Gabonese women’s writing that s
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent examines how Francophone writers from the Maghreb and the Near East represent the intertwining of religion and politics in various disputes, such as the Arab-Isra
Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda is a groundbreaking study that puts into dialogue testimonies, literary fictions, and cinematic representations bearing witness to the genocide
The only studies on North African caves have been published in French and examine primarily physical cave sites. My book discusses the literary cave as a metaphor for national identity and the homelan
The Body Beseiged: The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leila Sebbar by Helen Vassallo analyzes the enduring legacy of the Algerian War of Independence by setting in dialogue the w
This book examines the possibilities of opposition to government-supported, dominant social orders through legal writing using post-Independence Cameroon (1960-1961) as its example. "Legal writing" in
Originally presented at a 2003 international conference on "Cultural Memory in France: Margins and Centers," the 14 papers collected here by Hargreaves (director, Winthrop-King Institute for Contempor
The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghrebexamines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting id
This book reevaluates the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesth
This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian lite
