{"product_id":"transnational-french-studies-2020-9781789627961","title":"Transnational French Studies: 2020","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eTransnational French Studies\u003c\/i\u003e situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”\u003cbr\u003eAlec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University\u003cbr\u003e\"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity.\"\u003cbr\u003eEtienne Achille, Villanova University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eCharles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: LANGUAGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eCharles Forsdick\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Transnational French before the nation\u003cbr\u003eSimon Gaunt\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Frenches on walls and online\u003cbr\u003eRobert Blackwood\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual Film\u003cbr\u003eGemma King\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan Coe\u003cbr\u003eHelena Chadderton\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Unbearable\u003cbr\u003eyasser elhariry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: SPACES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eClaire Launchbury\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the Nation\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Smith\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Transnational \u003ci\u003efraternité\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaire Launchbury\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational site\u003cbr\u003eDebra Kelly\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ Marseille\u003cbr\u003eChong Bertillon\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational Perspective\u003cbr\u003eHugh Dauncey and Jonathan Ervine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: TEMPORALITIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eCharles Forsdick\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Imagined Communities of Prehistory\u003cbr\u003eBill Marshall\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary Language\u003cbr\u003eSanja Perovic\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolition\u003cbr\u003eCharles Forsdick\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World Meets\u003cbr\u003eHerman Lebovics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in \u003ci\u003eLa Seine était rouge \u003c\/i\u003e(Leila Sebbar, 1999) and \u003ci\u003eJe Veux voir\u003c\/i\u003e (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)\u003cbr\u003eMax Silverman\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s \u003ci\u003eL’An 2440\u003c\/i\u003e (1771) to Houellebecq’s \u003ci\u003eSoumission \u003c\/i\u003e(2015)\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline Dutton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: SUBJECTIVITIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eClaire Launchbury\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003eRichard Hibbitt\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: \u003ci\u003eLaïcité \u003c\/i\u003eand belonging: Transnational Perspectives\u003cbr\u003eMelanie Adrian\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable Feast\u003cbr\u003eKolleen M. Guy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexuality\u003cbr\u003eDenis M. Provencher\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: \u003ci\u003eBande Dessinée\u003c\/i\u003e: The Ninth Art of France that is not really French\u003cbr\u003eLaurence Grove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042588098903,"sku":"9781789627961","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789627961.jpg?v=1750954758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transnational-french-studies-2020-9781789627961","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}