{"product_id":"the-author-as-cannibal-9781496218421","title":"The Author as Cannibal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter French colonial rule ended, Francophone authors began rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibalizations critique colonialism and its legacy in each author's homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Felisa Vergara Reynolds sheds an exciting light on Francophone literature. Her work brilliantly displays the common movement originated by authors who subvert the colonial lens by using its codes and transform them into the tools of its critique.”—Rokhaya Diallo, French journalist, writer, filmmaker, and activist for racial, gender, and religious equality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Felisa Vergara Reynolds’s impressive postcolonial reading of the author as cannibal strategically locates literary rewriting as a political form of protest, resistance, and reappropriation. . . . From rewriting and reclaiming the historical record to the inscription of subjectivity through the privileging of formerly marginalized perspectives to reversing the power dynamic intrinsic to the Eurocentric gaze, Reynolds peels back the veil of colonial ‘camouflage’—with its histories of domination, exclusion, and misrepresentation—to denounce colonial authoritarianism and reveal a set of counternarratives that imbue the formerly colonized with agency and the right to self-representation.”—H. Adlai Murdoch, author of \u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “Almost the Same, but Not Quite” \/ “Almost the Same, but Not White”; or, The Author as Cannibal\u003cbr\u003e 1. Aimé Césaire’s\u003ci\u003e Une tempête\u003c\/i\u003e, Cannibalizing Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e; or, Who’s Laughing Now?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Boubacar Boris Diop’s \u003ci\u003eLe temps de Tamango\u003c\/i\u003e, a Postmodern Cannibalization; or, Penetrating “Fortress Europe”\u003cbr\u003e 3. Assia Djebar’s \u003ci\u003eL’amour, la fantasia\u003c\/i\u003e, a Historiographic Cannibalization; or, Dismantling\/Decolonizing History\u003cbr\u003e 4. Maryse Condé’s \u003ci\u003eLa migration des cœurs\u003c\/i\u003e, Cannibalizing Emily Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e; or, a Sublime Phagocytosis\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Future of Literary Cannibalism; or, Addressing the Lingering Questions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Interviews with Maryse Condé\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409229128023,"sku":"9781496218421","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496218421.jpg?v=1730506047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-author-as-cannibal-9781496218421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}