Publication Date: 10/01/2018
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296.html
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as...
Publication Date: 02/26/2018
Readings in the Sous-Oeuvre
Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body of primary texts. Thomas C. Connolly seeks to destabilize canonical readings of Celan’s work by exploring the sous-oeuvre, the marginalized or...
Publication Date: 10/31/2017
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
Brings to light the contributions of Haitian statesman Baron de Vastey in the development of postcolonial and critical race theory
Demonstrates the influence of de Vastey’s writings and the work of prominent nineteenth and early...
Publication Date: 03/08/2017
http://www.editions-hermann.fr/5083-l-invention-de-la-litterature-juive-…
Une certaine histoire littéraire en France s’entête à nier l’existence de toute littérature juive antérieure à 1900. Armand Lunel, par exemple, a soutenu que, jusqu’à la fin du xixe siècle, « une littérature que l’on...
Publication Date: 11/01/2016
Published by W.W. Norton
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.
It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its...
Publication Date: 11/01/2016
Published by University of Chicago Press
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country’s Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...
Publication Date: 09/15/2016
Trad. de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Patrick Hersant
Hors série Connaissance, Gallimard
La lecture de L’Étranger tient du rite d’initiation. Partout dans le monde, elle accompagne le passage à l’âge adulte et la découverte des grandes questions de la vie. L’histoire de Meursault, cet...
Publication Date: 09/01/2016
Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Published by University of Chicago Press
The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus’s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It’s the rare novel that’s as at likely to be found in a...
Publication Date: 10/21/2015
La France a été la première nation européenne à accorder la citoyenneté aux Juifs, en 1790-1791. Ce faisant, la Révolution les a placés face à un dilemme: comment demeurer juif (ou, comme ils préféraient se désigner : israélite) tout en devenant français? Dans ces courts romans, ces nouvelles...
Publication Date: 01/09/2015
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865
First systematic and comparative literary-historical approach to the Haitian Revolution.
Deals with literatures written in several different languages (German, English, French, and Haitian...
