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Thea Petrou
Can love poetry be the site of a creative partnership? This book represents a foray into the love poetry of Jacques Roubaud, tracing a lifetime of writing from the ardour…
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Rodney Mearns
This study is the first full-length discussion of Le Labyrinthe du monde by Marguerite Yourcenar along environmental lines. Yourcenar emerges as an insightful writer with an important contemporary message, responsive…
Gilles Deleuze has been labelled the post-x thinker: post-structuralist, post-modern, post-Spinozist, post-Nietzschean and post-utopian. This book explodes such categorizations, placing Deleuze and Deleuzian method at the heart of contemporary thought…
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Jean Khalfa
<> explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, Cesaire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude movements in light of…
This exploration of the nature and power of human intelligence originates in the seventh annual series of Darwin College Lectures. How we define intelligence, what it consists of, how it…
The Routledge Guidebook to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth offers an accessible, step-by step guide to Fanon’s original text, providing a clear and engaging account account of the theoretical…
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This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in France since 1968. The collection traces anger and its various morphologies across French-language literature…
Frantz Fanon
This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth and…
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This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in recent French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an influential strand in recent French literature…
Philippe Willemart
Comment allier inspiration, tradition, culture et invention, d'un cote, et grain de jouissance, Reel, rature et manuscrit, de l'autre. C'est ce que l'auteur met en pratique, utilisant les theories litteraire…
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Natalie Berkman
The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. This book retraces the historical foundations of the group’s unprecedented literary project…
Maureen A. Ramsden
This book explores the origins of Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu in an earlier, unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil. Using close readings of early unpublished versions of the…
Bronwen Martin
This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, highlighting the philosophical and ecological role accorded poetic, sensorial expression and the imagination.
Poetics of the Antilles explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, Cesaire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude movements…
This study observes the composition and distribution of books in the diversity of its aesthetic possibilities: the several materials and formats are considered, together with all the different participants to…
Michel Foucault
Begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, the author asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the…
This volume interrogates the meaning and function of the stain in French and Francophone literature and culture. The collection provides a theoretical framework for the significance of the stain across…
Jean Khalfa (Trinity College Cambridge UK)
This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as non-synchronous and anti-chronological. The range of…
How does modern writing in French grapple with the present absence and absent presence of lost loved ones? This book explores the question from the Revolution to the COVID pandemic…
Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture questions how a wide selection of restrictive norms come to bear on the body, through a close analysis of a range of texts, media…
Marie Nimier’s writing exemplifies a contemporary ‘return of the subject’ in the rich diversity of the fifteen novels she has published since Sirene in 1985, blending fiction and life-writing. This…
Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre…
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Les recherches effectuees sur la texture et la qualite de la voix ou la relation entre la voix et l'affect sont beaucoup plus rares. Le present recueil d'articles offre une…
Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France…
Frantz Fanon’s political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in…
