Postcolonial poetics : genre and form / edited by Patrick Crowley and Jane Hiddleston.

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Other Authors: Crowley, Patrick, 1964-, Hiddleston, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Series:Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Literary form and the politics of interpretation. "New world" exiles and ironists from Évariste Parny to Ananda Devi / Françoise Lionnet ; "... without losing sight of the whole": Said and Goethe / Matthias Zach ; Metaphorical memories: Freud, Conrad and the Dark Continent / Nicholas Harrison ; Playing the field/performing "the personal" in Maryse Condé's interviews / Eva Sansavoir
  • Writing subjectivity, crossing borders. A concern peculiar to western man? Postcolonial reconsiderations of autobiography as genre / Bart Moore-Gilbert ; Still besieged by voices: Djebar's poetics of the threshold / Clarisse Zimra ; Algerian letters: mixture, genres, literature itself / Patrick Crowley ; How to speak about it? Kateb Yacine's feminine voice or literature's wager: a reading of Nedjima / Mireille Calle-Gruber ; The rise of the récit d'enfance in the francophone Caribbean / Louise Hardwick
  • Reinventing the legacies of genre. The tragedy of decolonization: dialectics at a standstill / Martin Mégevand ; J.M. Coetzee's Australian realism / Elleke Boehmer ; Ambivalence and ambiguity of the short story in Albert Camus's "L'hôte" and Mohammed Dib's "La fin" / Andy Stafford ; Writing against genocide: genres of opposition in narratives form and about Rwanda / Zoë Norridge.