French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads

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Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Dana Strand
SUNY Press, 22 juin 2000 - 325 pages
French Cultural Studies provides a theoretical framework for reconsidering the domain of knowledge and expertise traditionally associated with the discipline of French. The contributors accompany their analysis of a wide variety of topics in French and Francophone Studies with a spirit of critical self-awareness that continually challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries. Ranging from a reevaluation of Baudelaire's poetic interlude in the Mascarene Islands to a discussion of Patrick Chamoiseau's fictional blueprint for Caribbean resistance, these essays address the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail.

Contributors include Réda Bensmaia, Ross Chambers, Michele Druon, Jeanne Garane, Cilas Kemedjio, Larry Kritzman, Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Francoise Lionnet, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Leslie Rabine, Mireille Rosello, Timothy Scheie, Janice Spleth, Dana Strand, and Alawa Toumi.

 

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Rethinking the Discipline
1
Identity Crises
11
Nana and the Nation
29
On the LanguageCulture Nexus
49
Creolized North Africa
69
Rap Music and French Cultural Studies
81
In Search of a Postmodern Ethics of Knowledge
103
The Popular in Cultural Studies
123
Performance Departmentalization and Detour in the Writing of Patrick Chamoiseau
185
Addicted to Race
205
Dark Continents Collide
221
Cette enfant blanche de LAsie
233
African Intellectuals in France
253
Interdisciplinarity Knowledge and Desire
275
Political Geography of Literature
295
Contributors
309

Negotiating Postcolonial Identities
143
Reframing Baudelaire
153

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À propos de l'auteur (2000)

Marie-Pierre Le Hir is Treuhaft Associate Professor of French at Case Western Reserve University. Dana Strand is Professor of French at Carleton College, Minnesota, and is the author of Colette: A Study of the Short Fiction.

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