TheCambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature

Tahar Ben Jelloun, theMartinican PatrickChamoiseau, the LebaneseAmin
Maalouf (PrixGoncourt), Ivory Coast’s Ahmadou Kourouma (Prix Renaudot)
and a string of writers such as Jonathan Littell (Goncourt), Dai Sijie, Franc¸ois
Cheng (Prix Femina) and Andre¨ı Makine (Goncourt/M´edicis) who are at best
French by ‘adoption’.Moreover, one of the latest additions to the group of forty
‘immortels’ who make up the Acad´emie franc¸aise is the celebrated Algerian
novelist Assia Djebar. The tenuousness of the link between the French national
space and an increasingly dynamic domain of literary output is one of the key,
perhaps defining, characteristics of the field this book sets out to investigate:
francophone literature. Yet it is highly questionable whether the term ‘francophone
literature’ can be applied with any degree of accuracy to an easily
identifiable and unchallenged corpus of texts. Part of the reason for this is that
the word ‘francophone’ itself has become something of a label of convenience
that often masks as much as it reveals. So any attempt at providing even a
working notion of what ‘francophone literature’ is must begin by examining
the terms francophone and francophonie in some detail.
The francophone world
Undoubtedly the most graphic way of representing the notion of francophonie
is through maps. Just as vast tracts of the globe were formerly coloured pink
to represent the territories ruled by the British Empire, so it is still possible
today to map the world in ways

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