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The Body in Francophone Literature: Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives
The Body in Francophone Literature Historical Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives
Author: El Hadji Malick Ndiaye
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 re...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786494668
ISBN-10: 0786494662
Publication Date: 5/10/2016
Pages: 184
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Publisher: McFarland
Book Type: Paperback
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