Transnational French studies : postcolonialism and littérature-monde

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: What Does Littérature-monde Mean for French, Francophone and Postcolonial Studies? 1
Alec G. Hargreaves, Charles Forsdick and David Murphy

FROM WORLD LITERATURE TO LITTÉRATURE-MONDE: GENRE, HISTORY AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF LITERATURE

Francophone World Literature (Littérature-monde), Cosmopolitanism and Decadence: ‘Citizen of the World’ without the Citizen? 15
Deborah Jenson

From Weltliteratur to World Literature to Littérature-monde: The History of a Controversial Concept 36
Typhaine Leservot

Littérature-monde in the Marketplace of Ideas: A Theoretical Discussion 49
Mounia Benalil

The Postcolonial Manifesto: Partisanship, Criticism and the Performance of Change 67
David Murphy

POSTCOLONIALISM, POLITICS AND THE ‘BECOMING-TRANSNATIONAL’ OF FRENCH STUDIES

‘On the Abolition of the French Department’? Exploring the Disciplinary Contexts of Littérature-monde 89
Charles Forsdick

Francophonie: Trash or Recycle? 109
Lydie Moudileno

(Not) Razing the Walls: Glissant, Trouillot and the Post-Politics of World ‘Literature’ 125
Chris Bongie

The ‘Marie NDiaye Affair’ or the Coming of a Postcolonial Evoluée 146
Dominic Thomas

(R)Evolutions 164
Thomas C. Spear

Littérature-monde and Old/New Humanism 178
Jane Hiddleston

MAPPING LITTÉRATURE-MONDE

Littérature-monde, or Redefining Exotic Literature? 195
Jean-Xavier Ridon

From Littérature voyageuse to Littérature-monde via Migrant Literatures: Towards an Ethics and Poetics of Littérature-monde through French-Australian Literature 209
Jacqueline Dutton

Littérature-monde and the Space of Translation, or, Where is Littérature-monde? 227
Jeanne Garane

Littérature-monde or Littérature océanienne? Internationalism versus Regionalism in Francophone Pacific Writing 240
Michelle Keown

The World and the Mirror in Two Twenty-first-Century Manifestos: ‘Pour une “littérature-monde” en français’ and ‘Qui fait la France?’ 258
Laura Reeck

The Post-Genocidal African Subject: Patrice Nganang, Achille Mbembe and the Worldlinesss of Contemporary African Literature in French 274
Michael Syrotinski

Afterword: The ‘World’ in World Literature 287
Emily Apter

Appendix: Toward a ‘World-Literature’ in French 296

Notes on Contributors 301