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Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 23

This series aims to provide a forum for new research on modern and contemporary French and francophone cultures and writing. The books published in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures reflect a wide variety of critical practices and theoretical approaches, in harmony with the intellectual, cultural and social developments which have taken place over the past few decades. All manifestations of contemporary French and francophone culture and expression are considered, including literature, cinema, popular culture, theory. The volumes in the series will participate in the wider debate on key aspects of contemporary culture.

Recent titles in the series:

1. 5 Nicki Hitchcott, Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration

2. 6 Jane Hiddleston, Assia Djebar: Out of Africa

3. 7 Martin Munro, Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat

4. 8 Maeve McCusker, Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory

5. 9 Bill Marshall, The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History

6. 10 Celia Britton, The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction

7. 11 Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Postcolonial Eyes: Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature

8. 12 Lawrence R. Schehr, French Post-Modern Masculinities: From Neuromatrices to Seropositivity

9. 13 Mireille Rosello, The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress

10. 14 Andy Stafford, Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image

11. 15 Kaiama L. Glover, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon

12. 16 David Scott, Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text

13. 17 Mark McKinney, The Colonial Heritage of French Comics

14. 18 Jean Duffy, Thresholds of Meaning: Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

15. 19 David H. Walker, Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature

16. 20 Pim Higginson, The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel

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