Femmes et Literature
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The relationship between France’s territorial center and other regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of “Francophonie.” Boldly extending such discussions to the whole range of French literature, the essays in this volume explore spaces, mobilities and multiplicities in literates from the Middle Ages to today. They rethink literary history not in terms of national boundaries, as traditional literary histories have done, but in terms of a global paradigm emphasizing border crossings and encounters with “others.” Contributors offer new ways of reading canonical texts and considering other texts that are not part of the traditional canon. By emphasizing diverse conceptions of language, text, space, and nation, these essays establish a model approach sensitive to the specificities of time and place and to the theoretical concerns that informing the study of national literatures.
Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman