{"product_id":"the-body-in-francophone-literature-historical-thematic-and-aesthetic-perspectives-9780786494668","title":"The Body in Francophone Literature: Historical, Thematic and Aesthetic Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): El Hadji Malick Ndiaye | Moussa Sow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non-Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body--both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women's bodies, and the body's expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46478365032599,"sku":"9780786494668","price":4586.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786494668.jpg?v=1766295410","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-body-in-francophone-literature-historical-thematic-and-aesthetic-perspectives-9780786494668","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}