Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
The Francophone World Moves into the Twenty-first Century | p. 1 |
North Africa and the Middle East | |
Colonial Culture as Francophone? The Case of Late Nineteenth-Century Algeria | p. 17 |
The Closure and Opening of the Domestic Space in Ombre Sultane by Assia Djebar | p. 28 |
The Interruptive Dynamics of History and Autobiography in l'Amour, la fantasia | p. 39 |
Collective Memory and Representation in Tunisian Literature | p. 52 |
Francophone Literature of the Middle East by Women: Breaking the Walls of Silence | p. 64 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | |
The Negotiation of Identity in the Francophone African Novel | p. 77 |
The Myth of the Garden of Eden and the Symbolism of the Baobab Tree in West African Literature | p. 90 |
Revisiting the "Roman de la Desillusion": A Semiotic and Cultural Reading of Ousmane Sembene's Xala | p. 102 |
Challenging the Colonization of Space: Exteriors and Interiors in the Films of Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cisse | p. 114 |
The Other I: Questions of Identity in Une Vie de Boy | p. 126 |
The Caribbean | |
Landscaping Identity in Contemporary Caribbean Literature | p. 141 |
Breaking the Metronome: Community and Song in Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba sorciere ... Noire de Salem | p. 153 |
Literature in Guiana: The D'Chimbo Narratives | p. 166 |
Guadeloupean Literature: Multiple Versions of Creolite | p. 177 |
History and Cultural Identity in Haitian Writings | p. 191 |
North America | |
The Quebec Novel | p. 209 |
Quebecois Drama: Bordering on Intimacy | p. 217 |
Reflections on the Figures of a Nation in Les Anciens Canadiens by Philipe Aubert de Gaspe pere | p. 227 |
Antonine Maillet's Rewriting of Acadian History | p. 240 |
"Raconte-moi Acadie": The Competing Voices of Acadia in Jacque Savoie's Novel Raconte-Moi Massabielle and His Film Massabielle | p. 251 |
Europe | |
Communication, Language and Silence in Suisse Romande | p. 265 |
The Paradox of Linguistic Specificity and Dependence on Central Norms in the Belgian Regionalist Novels of Arthur Masson | p. 275 |
Linguistic Profit, Loss and Betrayal in Paris-Athenes | p. 284 |
On Earthquakes and Cultural Sedimentation: The Origins of Post-colonial Shock Waves in Azouz Begag's Zenzela | p. 296 |
The Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia | |
How Appropriate Is the Term "Post-colonial" to the Cultural Production of Reunion? | p. 311 |
The Poetics of Mixed Marriage in Le Clezio's La Quarantaine | p. 321 |
A Vietnamese Voice in the Dark: Three Stages in the Corpus of Linda Le | p. 331 |
The Pacific Ocean | |
New Caledonia: An Emerging Literature as Social Project | p. 345 |
Summaries of Selected Creative and Critical Works | p. 356 |
Guide to Selected Terms and Figures | p. 394 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 421 |
Index | p. 451 |
About the Contributors | p. 467 |
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