Packaging Post/coloniality

preview-18
  • Packaging Post/coloniality Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Watts
  • Release Date : 2005
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 206
  • ISBN 13 : 9780739108567
  • File Size : 53,53 MB

Packaging Post/coloniality by Richard Watts PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Packaging Post/coloniality books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Packaging Post/coloniality

Packaging Post/coloniality

File Size : 65,65 MB
Total View : 3070 Views
DOWNLOAD

In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts

After the Deluge

After the Deluge

File Size : 59,59 MB
Total View : 2436 Views
DOWNLOAD

Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, 'Apr_s nous, le deluge,' serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural

The Algerian War in French-Language Comics

The Algerian War in French-Language Comics

File Size : 92,92 MB
Total View : 3397 Views
DOWNLOAD

The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France’s colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, an

Frankétienne and Rewriting

Frankétienne and Rewriting

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 5848 Views
DOWNLOAD

'Rewriting' in the context of critical work on Caribbean literature has tended to be used to discuss revisionism from a variety of postcolonial perspectives, su

Against Autobiography

Against Autobiography

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 3838 Views
DOWNLOAD

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioni