...This chapter provides an overview of the history of French Studies in the UK. It shows that French established itself in the first two decades of the twentieth century as an intellectually respectable humanities discipline, within which language was central not only as a skill, but as an object...

...This chapter focuses on the Contemporary Women's Writing in French (CWWF) seminar and research network, together with its related activities. Through its activities, events, and publication outputs, CWWF has made a strong contribution to French Studies in the UK, and over the past ten years has...

... the talent of UK French linguistics at bringing the international community together both socially and intellectually can be applied to develop more synergies with national colleagues in other disciplines of French Studies is certainly a challenge which is worth addressing. The linguistic field of pragmatics...

... French and francophone studies to be part of a wider research and curriculum agenda. Admittedly, the concept of French Studies has become more fluid and its delineation a major challenge, as Charles Forsdick explains in this volume. From an institutional perspective, managerial support has been...

...This chapter considers the specific challenge posed to previous conceptions of French Studies by the field's engagement with the specific ‘transnational’ form of questioning involved in the development of postcolonial teaching and research. It explores whether the development of francophone...

..., Warworks: Women, Photography, and the Iconography of War (London: Virago Press Ltd, 1994 ). 232 How, then, has war and culture studies affected the discipline of French Studies? It is clear that it has provided a rich seam of new research that is far from having yet been exhausted. Some...

... Branly musée du Resnais Alain Soyinka Wole French and Francophone Studies Literary History Literary Criticism European Literature French Literature French Literary Criticism African Studies French Studies The immediate post-war years saw the creation of many small-scale journals and publishing...

... étudiants d’Afrique noire en France FEANF Wright Richard Casanova Pascale ethnocentrism French and Francophone Studies Literary History Literary Criticism European Literature French Literature French Literary Criticism African Studies French Studies In the decade following the end of the war...

... existentialism engagement Terrisse André négritude Faulkner William censorship Paris French and Francophone Studies Literary History Literary Criticism European Literature French Literature French Literary Criticism African Studies French Studies According to the novelist and critic Pierre-Henri...

... dédoublement femininity La France des couleurs… Gilroy Paul Identités CD Khatibi Abdelkebir ‘The Logical Song’ masculinity Middle Eastern North African split consciousness Supertramp veils Le Voile du silence French studies Francophone studies Performance studies Sound Listening This book...

... work being singular plural sharing French and Francophone Studies Literary Criticism Literary Studies French Literature Caribbean Literature French Studies Caribbean Studies In the ten novels which precede Desirada, Condé introduces her readers to a large variety of characters...

... Breton André laïcité universalism French and Francophone Studies Literary Studies Literary Criticism African Literature Assia Djebar Postcolonialism French Studies The most recent phase of Djebar’s work, including La Femme sans sépulture and La Disparition de la langue...

... ghostly spectrality spectral French and Francophone Studies Literary Studies Literary Criticism African Literature Assia Djebar Postcolonialism French Studies Djebar’s trajectory and development as a writer can be conceived as a gradual movement away from any specific form of identification...

... LaCapra Dominick Caruth Cathy Fanon Frantz Leys Ruth Derrida Jacques Felman Shoshana Khanna Ranjana Bhabha Homi Africa créolité Morrison Toni French Studies Francophone Studies Patrick Chamoiseau Literary Criticism French Literature Literary Studies Chronique des sept misères...

... Suzette Zobel Joseph Lacan Jacques names Crowley Patrick Césaire Aimé créolité négritude Britton Celia Jameson Fredric France French Studies Francophone Studies Patrick Chamoiseau Literary Criticism French Literature Literary Studies The previous chapter explored the ways in which...

... Maghreb Kiberd Declan Hutcheon Linda White Hayden Gallagher Mary Gaulle Charles de Márquez Gabriel García Letchimy Serge French Studies Francophone Studies Patrick Chamoiseau Literary Criticism French Literature Literary Studies The relationship with the past is one of the most fraught...

... Edouard Bhabha Homi Bourdieu Pierre créolité intertextuality André Jacques Antoine Régis Bongie Chris Césaire Aimé Gallagher Mary Caillois Roger Confiant Raphaël Smith Douglas Stewart Susan French Studies Francophone Studies Patrick Chamoiseau Literary Criticism French Literature...

... spectrality spectral amnesia exile Irigaray Luce photograph unveiling Derrida Jacques différance French and Francophone Studies Literary Studies Literary Criticism African Literature Assia Djebar Postcolonialism French Studies Assia Djebar wrote four novels during the first phase of her career...

... Gayatri Chakravorty différance education French and Francophone Studies Literary Studies Literary Criticism African Literature Assia Djebar Postcolonialism French Studies Je me présente à vous comme écrivain; un point, c’est tout. Je n’ai pas besoin – je suppose – de dire «femme-écrivain». Quelle...