Discursive Geographies / Géographies discursives: Writing Space and Place in French / L’Écriture de l’espace et du lieu en français

by Jeanne Garane (Editor)

The present collection of essays follows in the wake of recent work in cultural geography challenging the idea that maps are scientifically neutral entities, or that space, unlike time, is immobile. In defining space, place and geography as forms of textuality, the essays collected in this volume examine the ways in which postcolonial and metropolitan literary and filmic texts in French can at once inscribe and produce place and space, and thereby participate in forms of “discursive geographies.” François Bon; Alexandre Dauge-Roth; Habiba Deming; Zakaria Fatih; Jeanne Garane; Patricia Geesey; Greg Hainge; Sirène Harb; Jean-Luc Joly; Chantal Kalisa; Michel Laronde; Valérie Loichot; Mary McCullough; Michael O’Riley; Pascale Perraudin; Walter Putnam; Antoine Stéphani; Abdourahman A. Waberi. Contents Acknowledgements Jeanne Introduction Greg Allegorical Topographical Transposition and Allegorical Function in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Aesthetic Spaces Walter Raging Against the Céline’s African Episode Pascale PERRAUDIN : Le devoir de violence de Yambo images et nation au degré zéro Sirène Translation, Resistance, and Revision in Evelyne Accad’s Coquelicot du massacre Valérie Saint-John Perse’s Imagined Shelter : J’habiterai mon nom Mary Solidarity, Space and Sisterhood in Assia Djebar’s Ombre sultane and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass Abdourahman A. Eloge du nomadisme Jeanne GARANE : Comment faire exister son pays sur la planète litté Entretien avec Abdourahman A. Waberi Zakaria FATIH : Postcolonial Nomads in Alien Landscapes, or the Treasure Hunt in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les yeux baissés Michael O’RILEY : Orientalist Remainders and Postcolonial Images of France and Algeria Chantal Space, Violence, and Knowledge in Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance macadam Habiba Espaces coloniaux et identités linguistiques au Maghreb Patricia GEESEY : ‘Faites comme chez vous’: Spatial Appropriation in Franco-Maghrebi Cinema Michel LARONDE : La Fontaine et Salut cousin! : Le stéréotype scolaire comme sociocritique Jean-Luc JOLY : L’Ecriture cartographique de Georges Perec Alexandre DAUGE-ROTH : Du non-lieu au Plaidoyers de François Bon pour une urbanité contemporaine François BON et Antoine STÉPHANI : Billancourt (extrait) Notes on Contributors Index

285 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 2005