Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and
peoples that interacted within and outside of France's national
boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history
of a national literature, along with a truly global and
contemporary understanding of language, literature, and
culture.
The relationship between France's national territory and other
regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of
them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of
"Francophonie." Boldly expanding such discussions to the whole
range of French literature, the essays in this volume explore
spaces, mobilities, and multiplicities from the Middle Ages to
today. They rethink literary history not in terms of national
boundaries, as traditional literary histories have done, but in
terms of a global paradigm that emphasizes border crossings and
encounters with "others." Contributors offer new ways of reading
canonical texts and considering other texts that are not part of
the traditional canon. By emphasizing diverse conceptions of
language, text, space, and nation, these essays establish a model
approach that remains sensitive to the specificities of time and
place and to the theoretical concerns informing the study of
national literatures in the twenty-first century.
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