Katharine N. Harrington

Writing the Nomadic Experience in Contemporary Francophone Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the constantly changing global climate that includes vast numbers of individuals in transit including, but not limited to immigrants, expatriates, and exiles. The contemporary writer has a vital role to play in mapping out the identities and trajectories of nomadic individuals in today's globalizing world.

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Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780739175712
• ISBN-10: 0739175718
• Artikelnr.: 36596838

Autorenporträt

Katharine N. Harrington is assistant professor of French at Plymouth State University. She has published articles on the writing of Nancy Huston and Régine Robin and is co-editor of a book on innovative foreign language pedagogy Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching: Ready-Made Activities for the L2 Classroom. Her current research interests include contemporary writers of France and the Francophone world, French and Québécois film, and North American Francophone communities.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: The Evolution of the Notion of Nomadism and its Implications
for Contemporary Literature CHAPTER 1: Writing from the Margins: Cultural
Nomadism in the Life and Work of J.M.G. Le Clézio CHAPTER 2: Nancy Huston
and the Art of Negotiating Strangeness CHAPTER 3: Writing as "Seeing"
Between Categories in the Novels of Nina Bouraoui CHAPTER 4: From the Page
and Beyond: Régine Robin and Transcribing Deterritorialization CONCLUSION:
Mapping Out Territories Now and Into the Future