Writers on writing

L'Harmattan - EAN : 9782336656250

MURATORE M. J.

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EAN : 9782336656250

Paru le : 13 oct. 2026

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Détails

EAN13 : 9782336656250
Collection : L'ORIZZONTE
Editeur : L'Harmattan
Date Parution : 13 oct. 2026
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 220
Format : H:210 mm L:140 mm E:12 mm
Poids : 233gr

Résumé

Résumé : Such focus on the figure of the writer foregrounds literature’s own engagement with the problem of representation, particularly in the case of Francophone African and Caribbean narrative, where the writer is not simply the producer of a text but a figure who wrestles with questions of political agency, authorial legitimacy as well as the limits and consequences of literary representation. As such, the postcolonial writer confronts an epistemological problem as much as a representational one. In consequence, these works do not merely narrate events; they theorize, through narrative form itself, the conditions under which authorship becomes possible. Ultimately, the six novels here scrutinized do not produce a unified theory of authorship. Rather, what unites these texts is a sustained interrogation of the conditions under which writing can claim authority over experience. This newly-turned study explores the writer figure in six Francophone texts: Rachida Madani’s L’histoire peut attendre, Ousmane Sembène’s Le docker noir, Joseph Zobel’s La rue Cases-Nègres, Ferdinand Oyono’s Une vie de boy, Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi, le livre des ossements, and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique. Although these works emerge from different historical, geographical, and aesthetic contexts, each features a writer whose peregrinations within the novel brings theretofore unrecognized meanings to light. The metatextual dimension (writers who foreground writers in their works) serves to subtly expose the process by which authorship intersects with questions of power, historical memory, authorial agency and the struggle to create.
Biographie : M. J. Muratore, Curators Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri, is the author of numerous works, among them: The Evolution of the Cornelian Heroine; Cornelian Theater: The Metadramatic Dimension; Mimesis and Metatextuality in the Neo-Classical Text; Expirer au féminin: Narratives of Female Dissolution in the French Neo-Classical Text; Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers: Icons of Marginalization in Post-World War II Narrative; Molière’s Metatextual Maneuvers; The Weave of Fragmentation: Discursive Struggle in Novels of Assia Djebar, Sabiha Khemir, Rachida Madani; Rachida Madani, The Story Can Wait (English translation with introductory essay by M. J. Muratore); Aux carrefours du labyrinthe. Narration et fragmentation chez Assia Djebar, Sabiha Khemir, Rachida Madani; Stilled Voices Unmuted: The Poetics of Postcolonial Silence; Écriture, différence, recalibrage. Pour une nouvelle pathologie du discours post-colonial; Molière métatextualiste. She is also the editor of several collections of essays: Hermeneutics of Textual Madness: Re-Readings/Herméneutique de la folie textuelle: re-lectures (en deux volumes); Molière Re-Envisioned: Twenty-First Century Re-Takes/Renouveau et renouvellement moliéresques: reprises contemporaines; and founding director of a new monographic series titled Textualités diasporiques.