The Body in Francophone Literature: Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives

by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye and Moussa Sow

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Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0786494662

ISBN13:9780786494668

Release Date:May 2016

Publisher:McFarland & Company

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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