Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France reveals how the use of slang in French literature and culture led to the emergence of a sociolinguistic phenomenon that prioritized criminal life and culture in a way that expanded class boundaries and increased visibility for minorities within the public sphere.
This study examines the connections between Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan, as well as the nature and origins of Joan's mission. The author analyzes how Christine's Ditie suggests that Joan was trained to fulfill prophecies that Christine had promoted earlier.
When an English family renovate a 17th Century château in France as their new home, they are welcomed into a pleasant rural lifestyle. Everything is très bon – until a politician with a Machiavellian agenda sets out to ruin them. Against a backdrop of intrigue and skeletons of Nazi collaboration from World War II, the evils of corruption envelop ......
The contributions of this volume explore the political, social, and cultural legacies of May '68 revolt in France and similar protest movements in other nations around the globe. These events share a global utopian imaginary which found expression in a variety of artistic productions.
In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents-many of which are published or translated here for the first time-that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, ......
This book examines the ways in which the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Quai d'Orsay) responded to the large number of German citizens who sought refuge in France between 1933 and 1938.
Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature
This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature--and ideas we have about it--can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first ......
Publishing Practices and Identity Formation, 1998-2005
"This book examines autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes written by ethnic minority women writers in early twenty-first century France. In their publications, select authors denounce the ethnic hierarchies created and propagated by French institutions, and contend with the neocolonial marketing practices of key metropolitan publishers"--
