1st Edition
Reinventing Community Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-century Philosophy and Literature in French
By Jane Hiddlestone
Copyright 2005
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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During recent years critics have increasingly expressed their loss of faith in existing cultural and political collective frameworks, drawing attention instead to irreducible singularity and to radical incommensurability between diverse positions or groups. Hiddleston analyses and challenges this trend, bringing together political, theoretical and literary analysis and juxtaposing the works of... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Deconstruction of Community; 2: Communities of Difference; 3: The Identity of the French Language and the Language of French Identity; 4: Cultural Oppositions in 'First-Generation' Immigrant Literature; 5: Leïla Sebbar between Exile and Polyphony; 6: Resistance and Subversion in 'Beur' Literature; Conclusion
Biography
Jane Hiddlestone
