* Reassesses the status of "Francophone" and "postcolonial" studies in the light of the manifesto calling for a "World Literature" in French. * Contributors include leading scholars of "French", "Francophone" and "postcolonial" studies from around the globe. * Offers new perspectives on French Studies as a transnational field of study amid the challenges of globalization. * Reassesses the status of "Francophone" and "postcolonial" studies in the light of the manifesto calling for a "World Literature" in French. * Contributors include leading scholars of "French", "Francophone" and "postcolonial" studies from around the globe. * Offers new perspectives on French Studies as a transnational field of study amid the challenges of globalization.
Professor Alec G. Hargreaves is Ada Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French and Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. Charles Forsdick is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge. David Murphy is Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde.
... a timely invitation to reflect on the situation of litterature
d'expression francaise on the world stage, and should be considered
essential buying for any scholarly library.
New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Volume 33, Number 2
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