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

by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye and Moussa Sow

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