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.
Illustrating the fluidity and constant evolution of our global literary field, this collection analyses contemporary French fiction in context, claiming the collapse of distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences.
Recenzijos
' 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 'Anna-Louise Milne and Russell Williams have brought together in this superb collection some of the most commanding voices writing on contemporary fiction in French today.' Maeve McCusker, Modern Language Review
Daugiau informacijos
Demonstrates how contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation.
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 Andreļ 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.
Anna-Louise Milne is Professor of French and Comparative Literature in the Department of French, International Politics and History at the University of London Institute in Paris. She is also the author of 75 (2016) and The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris (2013), and she has recently co-authored The New Internationalists (2020) on the politics of contemporary solidarity. Russell Williams Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris. He is the author of Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's Fiction (2020), and he writes regularly for publications including the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
