Postcolonial theory and Francophone literary studies

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Introduction 1. Productive Intersections, by Anne Donadey and H. Adlai Murdoch Part I. Rethinking Theoretical Beginnings 2. Power, Purpose, the Presumptuousness of Postcoloniality, and Frantz Fanon's Peau noire, masques blancs, by E. Anthony Hurley 3. Unfathomable Toussaint: The (Un)Making of a Hero, by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi 4. A Neglected Precursor: Roland Barthes and the Origins of Postcolonialism, by Alec G. Hargreaves Part II. Postcolonialism, Modernity, and French Identities 5. Nomadic Thought, Postcolonialism, and Maghrebian Writing, by John D. Erickson 6. Narratives of Internal Exile: Cixous, Derrida, and the Vichy Years in Algeria, by Ronnie Scharfman 7. Meinoires d'Immigres: Bougnoul for What? by Kenneth W. Harrow 8. French Interwar Cinema as Vernacular Modernism: Pabst's Drame de Shanghal (1938), by Winifred Woodhull Part III. Displacing Francophonie: Migration and Transcultural Identities 9. Quebec and France: La Francophonie in a Comparative Postcolonial Frame, by Eloise A. Briere 10. Displaced Discourses: Post(-)coloniality, Francophone Space(s), and the Literature(s) of Immigration in France, by Michel Laronde 11. The Francophone Postcolonial Field, by Jacques Coursil and Delphine Perret Part IV. Theorizing the Black Atlantic 12. Borders, Books, and Points de Repere, by Renee Latrier 13. Francophone Studies / Postcolonial Studies: Postcolonializing through Relation, by Anjali Prabhu and Ato Quayson 14. Intersections and Trajectories: Francophone Studies and Postcolonial Theory, by Dominic Thomas 15. Afterword: Francophonie, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms, by Francoise Lionnet