Packaging Post/Coloniality

The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World

Автор: Richard Watts

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Lexington Books

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 10-18 дни

61.89 € 121.05 лв

In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by t...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Richard Watts

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2005

страници

184

EAN

9780739108567

ISBN

0739108565

Enbook ID

04902107

Издател

Lexington Books

Теглоt

330

Размери

151 x 228 x 18

Пълно описание

In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'-the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords that enclose the text-mediates creative works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia whose place in the French literary institution was and remains a source of conflict. In order to be acceptable for French bookstore shelves, the novels, essays, and collections of poetry created in colonial territories were deemed to need explanation and sponsorship by an authority in the field. Watts finds the French mission civilisatrice, or 'civilizing mission,' manifest in prefaces, introductions, and dedications inserted in the books that appeared in the metropole during the height of French imperialism. In the postcolonial era, book packaging reveals a struggle to reverse the power dynamic: Francophone writers introduced each others' texts, yet books still appeared with covers promoting stereotypical images of the Francophone world. This fascinating journey through a particular cultural history of the book is a unique take on the quest for a literary identity. Watts concludes his study by looking at English mediations of Francophone works, with a chapter on reading and teaching Francophone literature in translation.

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Най-често търсени

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Продукти

Продукти

Packaging Post/Coloniality

The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World

Информация за книгата

Пълно описание

Може също да ви хареса

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също