Francophone Literature as World Literature

This fascinating and timely book is distinguished not just by the scholarly caliber of its contributors but by the range of its approaches, the breadth of its concerns, and the quality of its writing. * Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford, UK *
Francophone Literature as World Literature revisits a fruitful paradigm in modern literary criticism in the light of crosspollinations in various francophone areas. This rich collection of essays renews epistemological frameworks by exploring borderlands in four directions: systems and institutions, spatialities, relational identities, and planetary intertexts. It also carries on the discussion about 'worlding' ('faire-monde') in a ecological perspective for languages and literatures in the French Caribbean, Subsaharian Africa, India, North America, and Central-Eastern Europe. * Catherine Mazauric, Professor of Contemporary Francophone Literature, Aix Marseille University, France *
In Francophone Literature as World Literature, the editors and contributors reveal in a most compelling way the multi-sited nodes of literary production in the French language around the world, in a context marked by extraordinary creative profusion, ambivalent affiliations, and inescapable global market imperatives. The volume makes a powerful case for the validity and for the singularity of Francophone literature as World Literature, all the while infusing both terms, as they converge, with renewed theoretical poise. * Lydie E. Moudileno, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, USA *