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Provides a critical perspective on Muslim politics and experiences in contemporary France. Drawing from the work of four Muslim thinkers and activists, this title examines issues such as the veil, integration, the role of the school, the traditions of the French republic, and the legacy of the French empire

Martyn Cornick, The Nouvelle Revue Française under Jean Paulhan 1925–1940 (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995), 224 pp., Fl. 65, $40.50, ISBN 9-051-83767-6.Nicholas Hewitt, Literature and the Right in Postwar France: The Story of the 'Hussards' (Oxford and Washington, DC: Berg Publishers, 1996), 218 pp. (hb.), £34.95, ISBN 1-859-73029-9.Denis Hollier, Absent Without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1997), 256 pp. (pb.), £18.50, ISBN 0-674-21271-1.Jeffrey Mehlman, Geneologies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 262 pp., hardcover, ISBN 0-521-47213-X.Jennifer E. Milligan, The Forgotten Generation: French Women Writers of the Inter-War Period (New York and Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1996), 236 pp. (pb.), £14.99, ISBN 1-859-73118-X.

The present article aims to analyze the process of recovering marine imagery in some contemporary Romanian fictional works. The study will proceed with our study from two distinct perspectives: from the point of view of a narrator who gained experience on board ships and from the point of view of an imaginary narrator-traveler. For the case studies, a few postmodern fictions have been considered. The limits between reality and fiction are to identify the literary exotism of those texts, concluding that the idea of "recycling" the marine themes in the present Romanian literary space contributes to the detachment of those works from the body of nautical fiction which many literary critics considered as minor literature.

This dissertation explores the relationship between oral and written literature through the lens of epic. Springing from an engagement with scholarship that has defined and defended the notion of an African epic, it seeks to reevaluate the relevance of this category in the case of West African literature in French. While some critics have argued that the concept of epic is too Eurocentric to be relevant to African narrative traditions, most believe that to renounce the idea of an "African epic" is to stifle comparative literature, and possibly even to reproduce the trope of a Dark Continent too primitive to produce anything great. At the same time, scholars of francophone literature regularly rely on the notion of an "epic" dimension in some contemporary texts. However, such studies too frequently conform to Mikhail Bakhtin's vision of this dimension as a grandiose but flat world of ancient heroes, utterly removed from the evolving concerns of the present--which belong to the realm of the novel. This study both draws on and challenges scholarship within these conversations in order to propose a more innovative reading of West African oral traditional narratives that we call epic, as well as their place in francophone writing. The inherently oral and performance-specific element of West African heroic narrative is a crucial motivating factor for its contemporary reincarnations in French-language literature. Rather than "flattening" the genre of epic, as Bakhtin and other critics have done, by framing it in terms of European points of reference, conservative group identities, or a navitist return to authenticity, African literature in French channels the critical reflexivity of oral heroic narrative: traditional material constantly reinvents itself in ways that are self-reflexive, adaptable to "modern" concerns, and indeed capable of offering social criticism in the present. For this reason, major African writers--specifically Amadou Hampâté Bâ of Mali, Ahmadou Kourouma of Ivory Coast, and Boubacar Boris Diop of Senegal--weave these traditions into their writing as a way of reimagining the relevance of precolonial discourse genres in the postcolonial world. A recurring goal of their novels is, for example, to challenge received interpretations of oral heroic narrative and to draw new inspiration from them regarding issues like contemporary politics, gender roles, and intergenerational relations. They also open up important theoretical questions, such as what it means to criticize the very category of "tradition" from within a "traditional" space. This strategy of rewriting allows us to think the epic-novel paradigm as depending not just on rupture, as much literary theory has emphasized, but also on continuity.The first two chapters of this study explore the category of West African epic from the point of view of colonial and postcolonial literary history and anthropology, while the final two as well as the conclusion examine how this category is mobilized in the literary work of the individual writers mentioned above: Amadou Hampâté Bâ's L'Etrange destin de Wangrin (1973) and posthumous memoirs Amkoullel, l'enfant peul (1991) and Oui mon commandant! (1994) in Chapter Three; Ahmadou Kourouma's political-historical novelistic trilogy, consisting of Les Soleils des Indépendances (1968), Monnè, outrages et défis (1990), and En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (1998) in Chapter Four; and Boubacar Boris Diop's Wolof-language novel Doomi Goolo (2003), adapted into French as Les Petits de la Guenon (2009), in the conclusion. In general, the discursive shift that is traced over time leads away from epic as "usable past"--that is, as an interpretation of history that serves political ends--to a critical consciousness of this usability. The authors in question specifically try to reorient heroic narrative away from its generally understood function of legitimating existing power structures and transmitting dominant ideology, using it instead to articulate critiques and alternatives to these. They also draw attention to the often dangerous mobilizations of epic discourse, which involve notions of authenticity and heroism, made by political elites.

[First paragraph]Kolonisierung und Krankheit: Der Begriff "alienation" in Texten aus den franzosischen Kleinen Antillen. HELMTRUD RUMPF. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993. 263 pp. (Paper US$ 46.95)Interkulturalitdt in der frankophonen Literatur der Karibik: Der europdisch-afrikanisch-amerikanische Intertext im Romanwerk von Maryse Conde. UTE FENDLER. Frankfurt am Main: IKO, Verlag flir Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 1994. vi+ 444 pp. (Paper DM 54.00)Der Roman der franzosischen Antillen zwischen 1932 und heute: Eine Literatur aufdem Weg zur Autonomie. DANIELLE DUMONTET. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995. 336 pp. (Paper US$ 52.95)Riickbesinnung-Selbsterfahrung-Inbesitznahme: Antillanische Identitat im Spannungsfeld von Nigritude, Antillanite und Creolite. MARION PAUSCH. Frankfurt am Main: IKO, Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 1996. 297 pp. (Paper DM 39.80)Research on Caribbean literatures in Europe is by no means limited to former mother countries such as France, England, the Netherlands, and Spain. There is quite a lot of interest at the academic level in Germanspeaking universities in Austria, Switzerland and, especially, Germany. The four studies under review here, published over the last five years, testify to the rapidly increasing interest in novels of the French Antilles. All were formerly presented as Ph.D. dissertations - completed at universities in Berlin, Bayreuth, Mainz, and Frankfurt/M respectively.

I am so completely in agreement with the main points of Victor Erlich's diagnosis—particularly with the lucidly formulated conclusions in the last few pages—that I shall confine myself to the one issue on which I dissent from his judgment—namely, his opinion of Solzhenitsyn.A few words to begin with about the general approach of Western observers to Soviet literature. Professor Erlich rightly dwells on the question of the relationship between politics and literature, and I would like to reinforce his sagacious plea for the maintenance of a "viable balance between literary and political considerations."

This reader is the first of its kind to present the work of leading French women philosophers to an English-speaking audience. Many of the articles appear for the first time in English and have been specially translated for the collection. Christina Howells draws on major areas of philosophical and theoretical debate including Ethics, Psychoanalysis, Law, Politics, History, Science and Rationality. Each section and article is clearly introduced and situated in its intellectual context. The book is necessarily feminist in inspiration but draws on an unusually wide range of thinkers, chosen to r

Robin Craig, « Trajectoires professionnelles : constructions discursives de la femme auteur au dix-huitième siècle », University of Western Ontario 2010.Yannick Roy, « La révélation inachevée : le personnage à l'épreuve de la vérité romanesque », Université McGill 2009.W. Allan Curnew, « Perte, perversion et paradoxes : le gaspillage dans le roman français de la Décadence », University of Western Ontario 2010.Olivier Parenteau, « L'honneur des poètes : Grande Guerre et modernité poétique (Apollinaire, Cocteau, Drieu La Rochelle, Éluard) », Université McGill 2009.Laëtitia Desanti, « Du ready-made au design : les postures de Nathalie Sarraute et de Georges Perec par rapport à l'objet romanesque », Université McGill 2010.Stéphanie Roesler, « Yves Bonnefoy et Hamlet », Université McGill 2010.Valérie Dusaillant-Fernandes, « L'inscription du trauma dans le récit d'enfance autobiographique au féminin en France depuis 1980 », Université de Toronto 2010.Simona Emilia Pruteanu, « L'écriture migrante en France et au Québec (1985-2006) », University of Western Ontario 2009.Mirela Nicoleta Parau, « Le paradoxe dans le roman québécois : emplois, formes, effets », University of Western Ontario 2010.Joëlle Papillon, « Le désir et ses stratégies discursives dans les littératures française et québécoise au féminin, 1995-2005 », Université de Toronto 2010.Nicholas Serruys, « Utopie et idéologie dans la science-fiction canadienne-française et québécoise », Université de Toronto 2009.Catherine Grech, « Perte, déchéance et enfermement: images de la vieillesse dans le roman québécois », Université McGill 2010.Jonathan Livernois, « En quête d'une tradition : l'inscription du passé dans l'oeuvre de Pierre Vadeboncoeur », Université McGill 2010.Iulian Bogdan Toma, « Cheminement vers possible : quelques aspects de l'oeuvre poétique de Gherasim Luca : au-delà d'Œdipe et du politique », University of Western Ontario et École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) 2010.Benoît Jean-Marc Trudel, « L'énonciation non-rationnelle dans le roman francophone des Amériques : les stratégies socio-poétiques chez Jacques Ferron, Hubert Aquin, Édouard Glissant et Frankétienne », University of Western Ontario 2009.Sébastien Sacré, « Spiritualité et réalisme merveilleux dans la littérature antillaise : la (re)construction d'une identité », Université de Toronto 2010.Fida Dakroub, « Amin Maalouf et le pan-orientalisme : écriture et construction identitaire dans le roman historique d'Amin Maalouf », University of Western Ontario 2010.Antje Ziethen, « Géo / Graphies : la poétique de l'espace (post)colonial dans le roman sénégalais et mauricien au féminin », Université de Toronto 2010.Augustin Ndwanive, « Enseignement et apprentissage de la littérature française à l'Université Nationale du Rwanda : entre la tradition et l'innovation (1970 - 2005) », University of Western Ontario 2009.

Jean Buisson, "Etude comparée de l'idéologie dans Le journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, Le livre de la paix de Christine de Pisan, Le livre des quatre dames et Le quadrilogue invectif d'Alain Chartier," Université Laval 1989.Francine Belle-Isle, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: le défi de la perversion," Université Laval 1988.Michel Carle, "Le comportement politique de Gérard de Nerval à travers ses premiers écrits (1821-1833)," Université d'Ottawa 1987.Denise Perron, "Les personnages féminins comme mode de connaissance chez le narrateur dans A la recherche du temps perdu," Université Laval 1987.Mary-Lou Kaitting, "La poésie cinématographique de Jean Cocteau: savoir jusqu'où on peut aller trop loin," Queen's University 1987.Constance Pelletier, "Les conflits moraux dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus," Université Laval 1988.Patricia Mary Pell, "La répétition dans le théâtre d'Arrabal," Université d'Ottawa 1987.Raoul Boudreau, "Un régicide d'Alain Robbe-Grillet: une analyse textuelle," Université Laval 1987.Kelsey Haskett, "L'identité de la femme et ses rapports avec la famille dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Marguerite Duras," Université Laval 1988.Robert Dion, "Le structuralisme littéraire en France: ses fondements, sa postérité," Université Laval 1989.Micheline Beauregard, "La passion du jeu et le jeu de la passion dans trois romans de Philippe Sollers: Femmes, Portrait du joueur et Le coeur absolu," Université Laval 1989.Josiane Leralu, "L'oeuvre de Chrétien Leclercq: édition critique et philologique," McGill University 1986.Anne Carrier, "Françoise (pseudonyme de Robertine Barry): édition des Chroniques du lundi (1891-1895)," Université Laval 1988. Pierre Rouxel, "Claude-Henri Grignon (1894-1976), polémiste (1916-1943)," Université d'Ottawa 1987.Lucie Robert, "L'institution du littéraire au Québec," Université Laval 1987.Réjean Garneau, "L'opérativité sémantique du roman historique québécois," Université Laval 1989.Roger Chamberland, "Circa les Herbes rouges: modernité, postmodernité et avant-garde," Université Laval 1988.Anthony John Wall, "Entre la référence et la métaphore: Hubert Aquin à la recherche de la nature politique d'un oeuvre romanesque," Queen's University 1986. Elizabeth Bednarski, "Lire une littérature," Université Laval 1987. Lori Saint-Martin, "Malaise et révolte des femmes dans la littérature québécoise depuis 1945," Université Laval 1988.Anne Brown, "La femme dans la littérature féminine québécoise," McGill University 1988. Annie Brisset, "Codes socio-culturels de la traduction théâtrale au Québec (1968-1988)," Université du Québec à Montréal 1988.Jane Short Koustas, "Jean-Claude Gennain et la sottie québécoise," Queen's University 1986. Bertrand Gervais, "Récits et actions: situations textuelles et narratives du roman d'aventures," Université du Québec à Montréal 1988.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionCritical Theory: masculinity and masculinitiesAnalyzing masculinities in literatureHegemonic masculinity as fantasy and fictionChapter 1: Daniel Kehlmann: Fictitious hegemonic masculinityImaginary spaces -- imaginary masculinities: Die Vermessung der Welt Virtual worlds -- virtual masculinities: RuhmConclusionChapter 2: Doron Rabinovici: Playing identity gamesJewish masculinity -- an counter hegemonic masculinity?From Väterliteratur and family stories to a new form of Elternliteratur Multiplication of identities: Suche nach MConclusionChapter 3: Arno Geiger: New men? Towards a strategic passive, and caring masculinityMoving towards a strategic passive masculinity: Es geht uns gutCaring, gentle and emotionally literate masculinity: Alles über Sally ConclusionConclusionCommon themes and trendsImplications for gender theory: strategic evasionLiterature as a theatre for gender fantasyA caring, gentle and emotionally literate masculinity as a viable model?