Literature after Empire
A comparative reading of two literary manifestos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Murphy (0000-0002-4450-6308, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-75 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409290903412714 |
| OpenAlex | W2046648859 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1 It has, however, been easier for the lucky few non-colonials (e.g. Beckett, Ionesco, Kundera) to accede to the status of French writers, while French nationals of “colonial origin” still seem to occupy a no-man's land between French and Francophone. 2 Camille de Toledo's highly thoughtful, if wilfully mischievous, critique of the littérature-monde manifesto provides a very thorough examination of the question of literature's relationship to the real. 3 Chraïbi's early novels, Le Passé simple (1954) and Les Boucs (1956) are highly informed by the formal explorations of the nouveaux romanciers. Nicholas Harrsion provides an excellent analysis of Chraïbi's work in particular and the pressures of representativity placed on the postcolonial writer more generally
Art · Art history · Colonialism · Empire · French · French Literature · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Manifesto · Political science · Reading (process · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Poetry · History · Law · Philosophy · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |