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Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English (Hardcover)
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Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by
authors and directors not working in their native language. Artists
with hybrid identities have become a defining phenomenon of
contemporary reality following the increased mobility between
civilisations during the postcolonial period and the waves of
emigration to the West. Cinema and prose fiction remain the most
popular sources of cultural consumption, not least owing to the
adaptability of both to the new electronic media. This volume
considers cultural products in English and French in which the
explicitly multi-focal representation of authors' experiences of
their native languages/cultures makes itself conspicuous. The
essays explore work by the peripheral and those without a country,
while problematising what might be meant by the widely used but not
always well-defined term 'bicultural'. The first section looks at
films by such well-known filmmakers working in France as Bouchareb,
Kechiche, Legzouli and Dridi, as well as the animated feature
Persepolis. Here the focus is on the representation of human
experience in spatial terms, exploring the appropriation of
territory cohabited by 'local' people, newcomers and their
children, haunted by the cultural memories of distant places. The
second part is devoted to multicultural authors whose 'native'
language was English, Russian, Polish, Hungarian or Spanish
(Beckett, Herzen, Voyeikova, Triolet, Conrad, Hoffmann, Kristof,
Dorfman), and their creative engagement with difference. A study of
the emergence of multilingual writing in Montaigne and an
autobiographical essay by Elleke Boehmer on growing up surrounded
by English, Dutch, Afrikaans and Zulu frame the volume's chapters.
The collection relishes the freedom provided by liberation from the
confines of one language and culture and the delight in creative
multilingualism. This book will be of significant interest to those
studying the subject of biculturalism, as well as the fields of
comparative literature and cinema.
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