Françoise Král
Biographic Data
| ID | 177156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Françoise Král |
| GIVEN NAMES | Françoise |
| FAMILY NAME | Král |
| SIGNATURE | KRÁL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Nanterre |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thresholds of In/Visibility and the Scopic Power of Literature
In recent years the trope of invisibility has emerged as a critical concept in the humanities; initially associated with the issue of racial invisibility, it has been applied to all forms of marginalisation, be they racial, social, or political. Today, the context of hypervisibility, which results from intensive media coverage of certain events, has made discussing invisibility paradoxical. This article seeks to reassess invisibility as a key con…
Unmooring the Home in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter
Unmooring the Home in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter
Qu’il s’agisse de maisons bombardées, détruites ou dysfonctionnelles, la littérature diasporique contemporaine offre de nombreux exemples de maisons décrites dans leur incapacité à faire foyer et à assurer la sécurité et le bien-être de leurs habitants. Ces exemples de maisons dysfonctionnelles sont à la fois le symptôme et le reflet d’une crise plus profonde du foyer dans un contexte de précarité grandissante et de déterritorialisation forcée. L…
Mapping Diaspora Studies
Polyglossing in English
This article proposes to reassess the dynamic history of English in the 20th century up until the turn of the 21st century through the prism of communities in transit. Combining the perspective of the language with diaspora studies the article argues that diasporas are not only shaped by a language of former colonial origin but in turn shape it, inflecting its grammar to suit their needs, bending its rules when necessary and most of all speaking …
Diasporic trajectories
Literary Filiations and Textual Archeology
If sequels, prequels and coquels have flourished in mainstream literature in the wake of structuralism and its dialogue with the canon, and have taken a new turn with the postmodern challenging of master narratives, such textual experimentations work differently in the so-called ‘postcolonial literatures’. While Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea invented the subaltern subtext of Bertha Mason’s untold narrative, as convincingly argued by Gayatri Spiva…
Shaky Ground and New Territorialities Inbrick Laneby Monica Ali Andthe Namesakeby Jhumpa Lahiri
In this article I propose to analyse the way Brick Lane and The Namesake envisage the consequences of the new world geography on the psyche of migrants. Interestingly these two novels of the Indian diaspora envisage immigration as empowering, but they also pinpoint the difficulties of the interstitial self of the immigrant: its unsettling in‐betweenness verging on schizophrenia and what Julia Kristeva has termed “the silence of the polyglot” (Str…
Shaky Ground and New Territorialities Inbrick Laneby Monica Ali Andthe Namesakeby Jhumpa Lahiri
In this article I propose to analyse the way Brick Lane and The Namesake envisage the consequences of the new world geography on the psyche of migrants. Interestingly these two novels of the Indian diaspora envisage immigration as empowering, but they also pinpoint the difficulties of the interstitial self of the immigrant: its unsettling in‐betweenness verging on schizophrenia and what Julia Kristeva has termed “the silence of the polyglot” (Str…
Literary Filiations and Textual Archeology
If sequels, prequels and coquels have flourished in mainstream literature in the wake of structuralism and its dialogue with the canon, and have taken a new turn with the postmodern challenging of master narratives, such textual experimentations work differently in the so-called ‘postcolonial literatures’. While Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea invented the subaltern subtext of Bertha Mason’s untold narrative, as convincingly argued by Gayatri Spiva…
Polyglossing in English
This article proposes to reassess the dynamic history of English in the 20th century up until the turn of the 21st century through the prism of communities in transit. Combining the perspective of the language with diaspora studies the article argues that diasporas are not only shaped by a language of former colonial origin but in turn shape it, inflecting its grammar to suit their needs, bending its rules when necessary and most of all speaking …
Diasporic trajectories
Mapping Diaspora Studies
Unmooring the Home in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter
Unmooring the Home in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter
Qu’il s’agisse de maisons bombardées, détruites ou dysfonctionnelles, la littérature diasporique contemporaine offre de nombreux exemples de maisons décrites dans leur incapacité à faire foyer et à assurer la sécurité et le bien-être de leurs habitants. Ces exemples de maisons dysfonctionnelles sont à la fois le symptôme et le reflet d’une crise plus profonde du foyer dans un contexte de précarité grandissante et de déterritorialisation forcée. L…
Thresholds of In/Visibility and the Scopic Power of Literature
In recent years the trope of invisibility has emerged as a critical concept in the humanities; initially associated with the issue of racial invisibility, it has been applied to all forms of marginalisation, be they racial, social, or political. Today, the context of hypervisibility, which results from intensive media coverage of certain events, has made discussing invisibility paradoxical. This article seeks to reassess invisibility as a key con…
Art (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)