Culture and Identity in Belgian Francophone Writing: Dialogue, Diversity and Displacement (72) (Modern French Identities) - Softcover

Bainbrigge, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039113828 ISBN 13: 9783039113828

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Few full-length studies exist in English on French-speaking authors from Belgium. What, if any, are the particular features of francophone Belgian writing? This book explores questions of cultural and literary identity, and offers an overview of currents in critical debate regarding the place of francophone Belgian writing and its relationship to its larger neighbour, but also engages with broader questions concerning the classification of 'francophone' literature.
The study brings together well-known and less well-known modern and contemporary writers (Suzanne Lilar, Neel Doff, Dominique Rolin, Jacqueline Harpman, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Jean Muno, Nicole Malinconi, and Amélie Nothomb) whose works share a number of recurring themes and features, notably a preoccupation with questions of identity and alterity. Overall, the study highlights the diverse ways in which these questions of cultural identity and alterity emerge as a dominant theme throughout the corpus, viewed through a series of literary and cultural frameworks which bring together perspectives both local and global.

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The Author: Susan Bainbrigge is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has published on a variety of authors in twentieth-century and contemporary fiction and autobiography, including Writing against Death: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3039113828
• ISBN 13: 9783039113828
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
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