Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-285) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Mapping the contemporary / Anna Louise Milne & Russell Williams -- Mediterranean Francophone writing / Edwidge Tamalet Talbayev -- After the experiment / Simon Kemp -- Getting a future : fiction and social reproduction / Anna-Louis Milne -- Contemporary Fench fiction and the world : transnationalism, translingualism and the limits of genre / Charles Forsdick -- The Franco-American novel / Russel Williams -- Graphic novel revolution(s) / Laurence Grove -- 'Back in the USSR' : the prose of Andreï Makine and Antoine Volodine / Helena Duffy -- Fictions of self / Shirley Jordan -- Trauma, transmission, repression / Maxim Silverman -- Wretched of the sea : boat narratives and stories of displacement / Subha Xavier -- Urban dystopias / Gillian Jein -- Imagining civil war in the contemporary French novel / Martin Crowley.
Summary:
"Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before"-- Provided by publisher.
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