Now available in paperback, this acclaimed book skilfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French l
Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha'sThird Space or of Stuart Hall's politics of difference, for example, has opened up understandings of what may be pr
The unique collaborative relationship between text and image has allowed the once-humble poster to evolve distinctive strategies of persuasion that have transformed modern advertising. Closely rela
Spatial Ecologies asks why French cultural and critical theory since 1968 has turned from investigating questions of time to examining space. Verena Conley ranges over the work of Henri Lefebvre, Mich
Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to for
With the publication in 1953 of his Harlem Domestic series, African American noir writer Chester Himes became a cult figure for a generation of Parisian readers—many of whom appreciated his work as mu
Despite a number of broad surveys of contemporary French fiction that have appeared in the last decade or so, the question of the nouveau roman’s literary legacy remains an under-researched field. Thr
Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalizat
Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean sets out to examine the recent major turn in francophone Caribbean literature towards the recit d’enfance—or autobiography of childhood. It conne
At a time when the world is facing the depletion of nonrenewable natural resources, consumer society is increasingly being called into question. Nowhere is this more evident than in France, where the
For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the "other". While in the past a
This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fi
"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either d
This book explores the impossible dilemma facing Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: How could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied
