Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World (eBook, ePUB)

Filiations Past and Future
Redaktion: Vallury, Rajeshwari S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesthetics, and politics. This collection combines interdisciplinary scholarship, nuanced theoretical reflection, and contextualized analyses of literary, cinematic, and philosophical practices to suggest alternative critical paradigms for the twenty-first century. The contributors' reappraisals of key writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals trace an alternative narrative of their historical, cultural, or intellectual legacy, casting a contemporary light on the aesthetic, theoretical, and political questions raised by their works. Taken as a whole, the essays generate a series of fresh perspectives on French and Francophone literary and cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498570398
• Artikelnr.: 56826813

Autorenporträt

Rajeshwari S. Vallury is professor of French at the University of New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Introduction
Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Chapter One. Commemorating Past History or Documenting the Persistence of
Struggles?: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Phil Watts as
Archaeologists
Yves Citton
Chapter Two. Free Indirect, or Who is the Subject of the Work of Fiction?
Timothy Bewes
Chapter Three. Time, Sense, and the Image in Raoul Ruiz's La Vocation
Suspendue and L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé
Giuseppina Mecchia
Chapter Four. Lévinas and Camus: Love, Literature, and Resistance
Christian C. Wood
Chapter Five. Sacrificial Filiations: The Eichmann Trial, Hannah Arendt,
and the Dangers of "Monumental History"
Richard J. Golsan
Chapter Six. Linking the Aesthetic and the Political in Jean Genet: From
Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs to Les nègres to the Black Panther Party
Pamela A. Pears
Chapter Seven. Torture, Terror, and Revolution under the Algerian Sun:
Tragic Consciousness in Mohammed Dib's Un été africain
Rajeshwari S. Vallury
Chapter Eight. L'Amour, La Fantasia, ou comment (ré)écrire l'histoire
coloniale
Réda Bensmaïa
Chapter Nine. Desiring Anthropology. Roland Barthes's Ethnological
Temptation
Vincent Debaene
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors