Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World

Filiations Past and Future

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the relationships between fiction, aesthetics, and politics. This collection combines interdisciplinary scholarship, nuanced theoretical reflection, and contextualized analyses of literary, cinematic, and philosophical practices to suggest alternative critical paradigms for the twenty-first century. The contributors’ reappraisals of key writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals trace an alternative narrative of their historical, cultural, or intellectual legacy, casting a contemporary light on the aesthetic, theoretical, and political questions raised by their works. Taken as a whole, the essays generate a series of fresh perspectives on French and Francophone literary and cultural studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-25
Mått161 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfter the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498570381

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ForewordRajeshwari S. ValluryIntroductionRajeshwari S. ValluryChapter One. Commemorating Past History or Documenting the Persistence of Struggles?: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Phil Watts as ArchaeologistsYves CittonChapter Two. Free Indirect, or Who is the Subject of the Work of Fiction?Timothy BewesChapter Three. Time, Sense, and the Image in Raoul Ruiz’s La Vocation Suspendue and L’Hypothèse du Tableau VoléGiuseppina MecchiaChapter Four. Lévinas and Camus: Love, Literature, and ResistanceChristian C. WoodChapter Five. Sacrificial Filiations: The Eichmann Trial, Hannah Arendt, and the Dangers of “Monumental History”Richard J. GolsanChapter Six. Linking the Aesthetic and the Political in Jean Genet: From Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs to Les nègres to the Black Panther PartyPamela A. PearsChapter Seven. Torture, Terror, and Revolution under the Algerian Sun: Tragic Consciousness in Mohammed Dib’s Un été africainRajeshwari S. ValluryChapter Eight. L’Amour, La Fantasia, ou comment (ré)écrire l’histoire colonialeRéda BensmaïaChapter Nine. Desiring Anthropology. Roland Barthes’s Ethnological TemptationVincent DebaeneIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

Thought-provoking, challenging, controversial at times, Vallury’s edited volume presents a series of brilliant and fruitful dialogues on aesthetics and politics between philosophical discourses (from Camus and Lévinas to Deleuze) and analyses of literary fiction and criticism (Dib, Djebar, Genet, Klossowski, Barthes) as well as filmic texts (Ruiz, Straub and Huillet) that brought a significant contribution to intellectual and artistic debates during the second half of the twentieth century in the French-speaking world and beyond (Hannah Arendt, Richard Wright, Philip Watts, J. M. Coetzee, and Vilém Flusser).