Packaging Post/Coloniality
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-0856-7 (ISBN)
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.
Richard Watts is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Tulane University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Paratexts and the Mediation of Culture
Part 2 The Colonial Paratext and Its Imperial Desires
Chapter 3 Black Text, White Masks: The Colonial Paratext in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 4 "The Felicitous Graft:" Hybridity and Anxiety in Indochina and North Africa
Part 5 The Textual Histories of Decolonization
Chapter 6 Senghor and Sartre between the Colonial and the Postcolonial
Chapter 7 Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Its Displacements
Part 8 Postcolonial Transfigurations of the Books
Chapter 9 Glissant, Lopes, and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial Paratext
Chapter 10 Gender and the Paratext
Chapter 11 Reading and Teaching Francophone Literatures in Translation
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2005 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 327 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7391-0856-5 / 0739108565 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-0856-7 / 9780739108567 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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