Share

Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing

2015-10-29 Literary Criticism
Download Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2015-10-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing by : Pamela A. Pears

Download or read book Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing written by Pamela A. Pears. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page—or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls what we read on the reverse—in this case, the text itself (verso). Using theories of the paratext, including those of Gérard Genette and Jonathan Gray, this book determines how four dominant iconographies used on the covers of Algerian women’s writing – Orientalist art, the veil, the desert, and the author portrait – work with and against the texts they represent. These images have an impact on the initial reception of the book, but beyond that, book covers determine how both the informed and uninformed reader categorize and interpret francophone Algerian women’s writing in France and beyond. As the covers help to sell the works, they also produce messages, represented via their iconographies that embed themselves into the texts. A sometimes explicit, and at the very least, implicit dialog between the visual paratextual representation and the written textual one is created: a dialog that extends beyond the life of the physical book to a sort of canonical paradigm for reading these authors’ works. Thus, even if the cover image appears ephemeral, it never truly disappears. Its powerful control over critical reception and, ultimately, interpretation of francophone Algerian women’s writing remains.

Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women's Writing

2015 Literary Criticism
Download Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women's Writing PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2015
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 360/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women's Writing by : Pamela A. Pears

Download or read book Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women's Writing written by Pamela A. Pears. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is situated between studies of the material object of the book and Algerian women's writing. It examines the iconographic depictions on book covers of three of the most studied francophone writers today, Assia Djebar, Nina Bouraoui, and Malika Mokeddem, among others, ..

Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France

2020-11-17 Literary Criticism
Download Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2020-11-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France by : Claire Mouflard

Download or read book Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France written by Claire Mouflard. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France, Mouflard argues that the identity politics surrounding the immigration discourse of early twenty-first century France were reflected in the marketing and editing practices of the Metropole’s key publishers, specifically with regards to non-white French women’s literature. Echoing the utopic “Black-Blanc-Beur” model of integration which surfaced during the 1998 soccer World Cup, select publishers fashioned unofficial literary categories based on neocolonial racial and gender stereotypes, either lauding integrated “Beur” authors or exploiting “Black” political dissenters. Concurrently, metropolitan women writers in their autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes, problematized notions of French multiculturalism and literary hierarchies, thereby exposing the dangers of utopian thinking. Mouflard ultimately reveals that the absence of the Franco-Vietnamese identity from the “Black-Blanc-Beur” paradigm enabled authors of Southeastern Asian origin to establish themselves outside of the era’s reductive multicultural utopia, within a realm directly adjacent to littérature française, if not in a newly-designed, truly multicultural French literature category. Overall, Mouflard’s research highlights the discrepancies between France’s official discourse on immigration, and the actual identity formation processes created by the institutions and exploited by influential publishers, in the years leading to the historic 2005 banlieue civil unrest.

French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882

2018-03-06 Literary Criticism
Download French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882 PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2018-03-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882 by : Sage Goellner

Download or read book French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882 written by Sage Goellner. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the growing theoretical field of hauntology to a body of literature which has previously been examined through the lenses of Orientalism and exoticism. Through a chronological study and close readings of the writings of Théophile Gautier, Eugène Fromentin, Gustave Flaubert, and Pierre Loti, the project identifies haunting echoes within the texts which demonstrate an ambivalence of attitudes towards colonialism and which undermine any claim towards a monolithic imperialist French ideology. Whereas hauntological theory has be used to illuminate literature from the Francophone post-colonial period, it has not yet been applied to texts produced during the French colonial period. The originality of this project thus lies in the application of Derridean hauntological theory to works from an earlier period, each of which in one way or another addresses the theme of colonial violence. By revisiting four classic works of colonial Orientalism with haunting as a principal theme, this analysis provides a critical witnessing of France’s violent colonization of Algeria that demonstrates France’s latent anxieties about the colonial project at the time.

Women Writers of Gabon

2016-10-07 Literary Criticism
Download Women Writers of Gabon PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2016-10-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 219/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Women Writers of Gabon by : Cheryl Toman

Download or read book Women Writers of Gabon written by Cheryl Toman. This book was released on 2016-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon’s literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women’s writing that show it is worthy of critical recognition and that prove why Gabonese women writers must be considered a major force in African literature. This book is the only book-length critical study of Gabonese literature that exists in English and although there are titles in French that provide analyses of the works of Gabonese women writers, no one work is comprehensive nor is the history of women’s writing in Gabon considered in the such a manner. Throughout the various chapters, the book explores, among other things, contributions that are unique to Gabonese women writers such as: definitions of African feminisms as they pertain to Gabonese society, the rewriting of oral histories, rituals, and traditions of the Fang ethnic group, one of the first introductions of same-sex couples in African Francophone literature, discussions on the impact of witchcraft on development, and the appropriating of the epic poetry known as the mvet by women writers. The chapters explore works by all major voices in Gabonese women’s writing including Angèle Rawiri, Justine Mintsa, Sylvie Ntsame, Honorine Ngou, and Chantal Magalie Mbazoo-Kassa and the book concludes with brief introductions of a younger generation of Gabonese women writers such as Edna Merey-Apinda, Alice Endamne, Nadia Origo, Miryl Eteno, and Elisabeth Aworet among others.

You may also like...