Transpositions

Alison Rice is the Dr. William M. Scholl Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and the Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Notre Dame.

• Introduction: Tracing Transpositions, Transposing TracesAlison RiceMediterranean CrossingsMigration and Representation, from the Bildungsroman to the Testimonial GenreMadeleine DobieTransposé et pourtant juste: Transposition and Collaboration in New Francophone Migrant WritingKate AverisAccidental Form, Mediterranean Transpositions, and New Francophonies in Malika Mokeddem’s La DésiranteEdwige Tamalet TalbayevMultilingual Aesthetics and Poetics!!Abdelfattah Kilito: Writing Beyond Monolingualism and MultilingualismJane HiddlestonIntersignes du Maroc: Towards a Plural Cultural AestheticClaudia EspositoPerformance ArtsMinor Transpositions: Mohamed Rouabhi Stages the Colonial ClichéOlivia C. HarrisonIn Search of the Ghost Country: The Artistic and Literary Transpositions of ExileOlivier MorelScreen CulturesLessons in Adaptation: The Postcolonial Classroom in Entre les murs and L’EsquiveNicholas HarrisonCinematic Transpositions of the “Republic”?: Fatima and D’une pierre deux coupsVinay SwamyMusical Movements“Sound” Tracks and Sound Tracks: Clandestine Crossings, Film Aesthetics, Ethics, and PoliticsHakim AbderrezakBlack Transnationalism and Sketches of Mediterranean NoirEdwin HillTransposed Modes: Musical Mapping and Literary Lapping in Current Francophone Migratory TextsAlison Rice

“This is an exciting and vibrant collection of essays on the French Trans-Mediterranean brought together around the concept of transposition. With its roots in Western musical practice, the transposition from one key to another or the rewriting of parts for instruments of a different pitch, the term is used here to consider relocation, migration, multilingual and transnational aspects of a great diversity of texts.” Claire Launchbury