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Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boris Vian (1920-1959) is today considered one of France's foremost avant-garde novelists of the twentieth century, but in his lifetime he was known to a wide audience as the author of one work: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I Will Spit on Your Graves), a pastiche of American hard-boiled fiction which he published in 1946 under the name of a fictitious Black American author, Vernon Sullivan. Vian died twelve years later of heart failure while viewing the film adaptation, which he had no part in producing. Vian-as-author "died" long before that fateful moment, however: first when he perpetrated a …
When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza
When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
While most critics agree that the quest for identity which underlies much of post-colonial literature is illustrated in the thematic approaches adopted by writers, this study further the argument by suggesting that it also conditions writers' selection of narrative strategies. In its representation of subjectivity in process, the apprenticeship novel seems to offer an enticing model of self-completion. This narrative strategy, however, presents particular complexities when used to portray coming of age in a society divided along ethnic lines. Simon Gikandi argues with regards to the Caribbean that the probability of a quest for identity reaching fruition is nil, but …
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Avelar, Idelber. The Untimely Present: Post-Dictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning by Herbert J. Brant
Bertharion, Jacques-Denis. Poetique de Georges Perec by Warren Motte
Cascardi, Anthony J. Consequences of Enlightenment by Holger Briel
Cloonan, William. The Writing of War: French and German Fiction and World War II by Damon Rarick
Holloway, Vance R. El Posmodernismo y otras tendencias de la novela espanola (1967-1995) by Nancy Vosburg
O'Neill, Patrick. Gunter Grass Revisited by Stuart Taberner
Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria. Cuban Writers On and Off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction by Teresa R. Arrington
Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Fictions, Beryl Schlossman
Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Fictions, Beryl Schlossman
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Although Samuel Beckett's œuvre is bilingual in French and English, his writing is generally considered to be the product of a single national identity…
Remembrance Of The Lost Guyanese Novel: Atipa, Marc Lony
Remembrance Of The Lost Guyanese Novel: Atipa, Marc Lony
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In 1885 the Ghio publishing house in Paris brought out Atipa, roman guyanais (Atipa: A Guianese Novel), written in Guianese Creole by an author who signed himself Alfred Parépou…
Marketing Strategies For A New Academic Economy: Can We Sell French Without Selling Out?, Mary Jean Green
Marketing Strategies For A New Academic Economy: Can We Sell French Without Selling Out?, Mary Jean Green
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
When I was asked to participate in this discussion, I was told that my comments should reflect in some way the perspective I gained by temporarily crossing the line into academic administration when I became Associate Dean of the Faculty in charge of the Humanities at my home university five years ago, an experience from which I'm still in recovery...
Reassessing Marguerite Duras, Carol J. Murphy
Reassessing Marguerite Duras, Carol J. Murphy
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Since her death on March 3, 1996, Marguerite Duras continues to "live on" through the ongoing critical appreciation of her works…
Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet
Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Jacques Jouet has emerged over the past ten years as one of the most consistently intriguing voices in contemporary French literature, and one of the most versatile, as a glance at his bibliography will clearly show…
Christian Oster's Picnic, Warren Motte
Christian Oster's Picnic, Warren Motte
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
With eight novels published by the Editions de Minuit in the last decade, Christian Oster has established himself as one of the most interesting figures in a cohort of new French writers who are gradually redefining the novel as literary form…
Interview With Ghada Amer, Estelle Taraud
Interview With Ghada Amer, Estelle Taraud
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Interview with Ghada Amer
Cathodisms, Stéphane Spoiden
Cathodisms, Stéphane Spoiden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
At a time when European television is undergoing constant change, it is undoubtedly more opportune than ever to talk about it, less perhaps because it would be "mediocratized"' than because new multimedia techniques which are developing at the current time could render it obsolete or at least radically transform it...
Poetry Of The Resistance, Resistance Of The Poet, Yasmine Getz
Poetry Of The Resistance, Resistance Of The Poet, Yasmine Getz
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The expression "French Resistance poetry" tends to immediately suggest a poetry written for an audience belonging to a specific historical period, namely that stretching from 1940, the time of the French defeat and collaboration, to 8 May 1945, the date of the Allied Victory over Nazism...
Unveiling French-African Memory, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
Unveiling French-African Memory, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Whereas the question of memory has become central to French identity, notably in regards to the Vichy period, French-African memory has been systematically obscured…
Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, And Martine Broda, Marie-Claire Bancquart
Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, And Martine Broda, Marie-Claire Bancquart
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
I would like to present three poets who are very different in age and writing style, Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Martine Broda, in order to show the diversity of paths opened up by a women's poetry to which criticism and anthologies still give too small a place in France...
Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher
Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This volume was compiled following the 16th International colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies that Martine Antle and I organized at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999…
From War Films To Films On War: Gendered Scenarios Of National Identity—The Case Of The Last Metro, Leah D. Hewitt
From War Films To Films On War: Gendered Scenarios Of National Identity—The Case Of The Last Metro, Leah D. Hewitt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
If France's ongoing struggle for self-definition in the late twentieth century involved new conceptions of citizenship and nationality, in short what it means to be French, this struggle also entailed the search for an accurate portrayal of a past in which France could recognize itself...
Maghrebi-French Directors Behind The Camera: The Cinema Of The Second G, Dina Sherzer
Maghrebi-French Directors Behind The Camera: The Cinema Of The Second G, Dina Sherzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In an article entitled "De Nanterre à Hollywood" ("From Nanterre to Hollywood"), published in a 1996 issue of L'Express, Dalila Kerkouche writes: "leur père tenait le marteau piqueur, eux manient la caméra…
European Hospitality Without A Home , Mireille Rosello
European Hospitality Without A Home , Mireille Rosello
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
How do European governments conceptualize what they call "hospitality" when they draft immigration laws and when they allow the concepts of asylum, of illegal immigrants, to change according to a constantly evolving political context? What consequences…