Yale French Studies, Number 103; French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons

by Edited by Farid Laroussi and Christopher L. Miller

• ISBN13: 9780300100150
• ISBN10: 0300100159
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-06-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Part I. Institutional and Professional Histories
Ronnie Scharfman
Before the Postcolonial
Reda Bensmaia
FrancoXphonie
Karen Gould
Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism
Samba Gadjigo
Teaching Francophone African Literature in the American Academy
Part II. Configurations of French and Francophone around the World
Daniel Delas
Francophone Literary Studies in France
Jean Jonassaint
Of Literatures in the Francophone Caribbean
Amadou Kone
Teaching Francophone Literature
Josias Semujanga
The Fortunes and Misiortunes of Teaching Francophone
Literatures in Canada
Farid Laroussi
When Francophone Means National
Part III. Impact, Influence, and Interpretation
J. Michael Dash
Caraibe Fantome
Francesca Canade Sautman
The Race for Globalization
Mireille Rosello
Unhoming Francophone Studies
Sandy Petrey
Language Charged with Meaning
Lawrence Kritzman
A Certain Idea of French

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface: French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons	p. 1
Institutional and Professional Histories
Before the Postcolonial	p. 9
Franco[actual symbol not reproducible]phonie	p. 17
Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism: American Interest in Quebec Literature and Culture	p. 24
Teaching Francophone African Literature in the American Academy	p. 33
Configurations of French and Francophone around the World
Francophone Literary Studies in France: Analyses and Reflections	p. 43
Literatures in the Francophone Caribbean	p. 55
Teaching Francophone Literature: Remarks from the Two Continents	p. 64
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Teaching Francophone Literatures in Canada	p. 72
When Francophone Means National: The Case of the Maghreb	p. 81
Impact, Influence, and Interpretation
Caraibe Fantome: The Play of Difference in the Francophone Caribbean	p. 93
The Race for Globalization: Modernity, Resistance, and the Unspeakable in Three African Francophone Texts	p. 106
Unhoming Francophone Studies: A House in the Middle of the Current	p. 123
Language Charged with Meaning	p. 133
A Certain Idea of French: Cultural Studies, Literature, and Theory	p. 146
Postscript: In Memory of Naomi Schor
Feminism and Francophone Literature: From One Revolution to Another	p. 163
From Detail to Periphery: All French Literature Is Francophone	p. 166
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