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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH

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GENERAL LITERARY THEMES

 

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Antoine, Régis: La littérature pacifiste et internationaliste française, 1915-1935.  Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002.

Art [L’] français et francophone depuis 1980/Contemporary French and Francophone art.  Ed. Michael Bishop, Christopher Elson.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2005.

Baronian, Jean-Baptiste: Panorama de la littérature fantastique de langue française: des origines à demain.  Tournai: La Renaissance du livre, 2000.

Bishop, Lloyd: Comic literature in France: from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.  New Orleans: Univ. Press of the South, 2004.

Bleton, Paul: Western, France: la place de l’Ouest dans l’imaginaire français.  Paris: Belles lettres; Amiens: Encrage, 2002.

Boulé, Jean-Pierre: HIV stories: the archeology of AIDS writing in France, 1985-1988.  Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2002.

Cambridge [The] companion to the literature of the First World War.  Ed. Vincent B. Sherry.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.

Caracalla, Jean-Paul: Vagabondages littéraires dans Paris.  Paris: Table ronde, 2003.  La petite vermillon, 202.

Caron, David: AIDS in French culture: social ills, literary cures.  Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Caws, Mary Ann; Sarah Bird Wright: Bloomsbury and France: art and friends.  Pref. by Michael Holroyd.  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.

Cazenave, Odile: Afrique sur Seine: une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris.  Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003.

Child [The] in French and Francophone literature.  Ed. Buford Norman.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2004.

Cinéma et littérature au Québec: rencontres médiatiques.  Dir. Michel Larouche.  Montréal: XYZ, 2003.

Culture [La] française vue d’ici et d’ailleurs: treize auteurs témoignent.  Ed. Thomas C. Spear.  Préface d’Edouard Glissant; postface de Maryse Condé.  Paris: Karthala, 2002.

Dean, Carolyn J.: The frail social body: pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France.  Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: Univ. of California Press, 2000.

Denis, Benoît: Littérature et engagement: de Pascal à Sartre.  Paris: Seuil, 2000.

Discursive geographies: writing space and place in French.  Ed. Jeanne Garane.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2005.

Eastern voyages, Western visions: French writing and painting of the Orient.  Ed. Margaret Topping.  New York: P. Lang, 2004.

Edwards, Rachel: The Papin sisters.  Oxford; New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.

Empire and culture: the French experience, 1830-1940.  Ed. Martin Evans.  Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Ezra, Elizabeth: The colonial unconscious: race and culture in interwar France.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2000.

Forsdick, Charles: Travel in twentieth-century French and Francophone cultures: the persistence of diversity.  Oxford; New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.

France-Ireland: anatomy of a relationship: studies in history, literature and politics.  Eamon Maher, Grace Neville, eds.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004.

French civilization and its discontents: nationalism, colonialism, race.  Ed. Tyler Edward Stovall, Georges Van den Abbeele.  Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003.

French food: on the table, on the page, and in French culture.  Ed. Lawrence R. Schehr and Allen S. Weiss.  New York: Routledge, 2001.  .

Healey, Kimberly J.: The modernist traveler: French detours, 1900-1930.  Lincoln; London: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Hokenson, Jan: Japan, France, and East-West aesthetics: French literature, 1867-2000.  Madison, NJ; Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2004.

Hurcombe, Martin: Novelists in conflict: ideology and the absurd in the French combat novel of the Great War.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

Images du mythe, images du moi.  Sous la dir. de Bertrand Degott et Pierre Nobel avec la collab. de Pierre Laforgue.  Besançon: Presses universitaires franc-comtoises, 2002.

Immigrant narratives in contemporary France.  Ed. Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Jordan, Shirley Ann: Contemporary French women’s writing: women’s visions, women’s voices, women’s lives.  Bern; Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

Kavanagh, Thomas M.: Dice, cards, wheels: a different history of French culture.  Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Kawakami, Akane: Travellers’ visions: French literary encounters with Japan, 1881-2004.  Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2005.

Love and sexuality: new approaches in French studies.  Ed. Sarah F. Donachie, Kim Harrison.  Bern; Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

Mathews, Timothy: Literature, art and the pursuit of decay in twentieth-century France.  Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001.

Modern [The] essay in French: movement, instability, performance.  Ed. Charles Forsdick, Andrew Stafford.  Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

Modern French literary studies in the classroom: pedagogical strategies.  Ed. Charles J. Stivale.  New York: MLA, 2004.

Modern [The] woman revisited: Paris between the wars.  Ed. Whitney Chadwick and Tirza True Latimer.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003.

Omgba, Richard Laurent: La littérature anticolonialiste en France de 1914 à 1960: formes d’expression et fondements théoriques.  Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004.

Portraits de l’écrivain contemporain.  Textes réunis et prés. par Jean-François Louette et Roger-Yves Roche.  Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2003.

Possessions: essays in French literature, cinema and theory.  Ed. Julia Horn and Lynsey Russell-Watts.  Oxford: P. Lang, 2003.

Reader, Keith.  The abject object: avatars of the phallus in contemporary French theory, literature and film.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2006.  Chiasma.

Rhine crossings: France and Germany in love and war.  Ed. Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.

Robson, Kathryn: Writing wounds: the inscription of trauma in post-1968 French women’s life-writing.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2004.

Schehr, Lawrence R.: French gay modernism.  Urbana; Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2004.

Scott, David H. T.: Semiologies of travel: from Gautier to Baudrillard.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.

Soi-disant: life writing in French.  Ed. Juliana de Nooy, Barbara Hanna, Joe Hardwick.  Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2005.  Second edition.

Space: new dimensions in French studies.  Ed. Emma Gilby, Katja Haustein.  Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

Sur quel pied danser?  Danse et littérature.  Ed. and preface, Edward Nye.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2005.

Taoua, Phyllis: Forms of protest: anti-colonialism and avant-gardes in Africa, the Caribbean, and France.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.

Taylor, John: Paths to contemporary French literature.  New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers, 2004.

Territoires et terres d’histoire: perspectives, horizons, jardins secrets dans la littérature française d’aujourd’hui.  Eds. Sjef Houppermans, Christine Bosman Delzons, Danièle De Ruyter-Tognotti.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2005.

Uncertain relations: some configurations of the “third space” in Francophone writings of the Americas and of Europe.  Ed. Rachel Killick.  Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.

Victims and victimization in French and Francophone literature.  Ed. Buford Norman.  Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2005.

Weiner, Susan: Enfants terribles: youth and femininity in the mass media in France, 1945-1968.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001.

Weiss, Jason: The lights of home: a century of Latin American writers in Paris.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

Women’s writing in contemporary France: new writers, new literatures in the 1990s.  Ed. Gill Rye and Michael Worton.  Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2002.