{"product_id":"the-body-in-francophone-literature-historical-thematic-and-aesthetic-perspectives","title":"Body in Francophone Literature","description":"\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":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54188522242392,"sku":null,"price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786494668_729e41c8-9acb-4e85-aaff-3f6cda3659db.jpg?v=1764507641","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-body-in-francophone-literature-historical-thematic-and-aesthetic-perspectives","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}