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Contemporary Fiction in French
About This Book
Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Mapping the Contemporary
- Chapter 1 Mediterranean Francophone Writing
- Chapter 2 After the Experiment
- Chapter 3 Getting a Future: Fiction and Social Reproduction
- Chapter 4 Contemporary French Fiction and the World: Transnationalism, Translingualism and the Limits of Genre
- Chapter 5 The Franco-American Novel
- Chapter 6 Graphic Novel Revolution(s)
- Chapter 7 âBack in the USSRâ: The Prose of AndreĂŻ Makine and Antoine Volodine
- Chapter 8 Fictions of Self
- Chapter 9 Trauma, Transmission, Repression
- Chapter 10 Wretched of the Sea: Boat Narratives and Stories of Displacement
- Chapter 11 Urban Dystopias
- Chapter 12 Imagining Civil War in the Contemporary French Novel
- Notes
- Select Secondary Bibliography
- Index