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Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Francophone Literature with the World -- Part I Systems and Institutions of Literary Francophonie: Language, Written Culture, and the Publishing World -- 1 African Literature, World Literature, and Francophonie -- 2 Francophone African Publishing and the Misconceptions of World Literature -- 3 Malinke, French, Francophonie: African Languages in World Literature -- 4 Globalizing the Spiritual and the Mythological: Indian Writing in French from Pondicherry Part II Francophone Spatialities: Cities, Landscapes, Environments -- 5 Mapping World Literature from Below: Tierno Monénembo and City Writing -- 6 Questions of Diversity in the Global Literary Ecology and banlieue Literature -- 7 As the World Falls Apart: Living through the Apocalypse in Christian Guay-Poliquin's Le poids de la neige and Catherine Mavrikakis's Oscar de Profundis -- 8 Poetry in the World: Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and the Language of Landscape -- Part III Relational Identities: Sex, Gender, and Class in Francophone World Arenas 9 World Literature, littérature-monde, and the Politics of Difference -- 10 Queer Desire on the Move: Resistance to Homoglobalization in World Literature in French -- 11 Locations of Identity: Littérature-mondaine and the Ethics of Class in Evelyne Trouillot's Le Rond-point -- Part IV Francophone Literature and Planetary Intertexts -- 12 Writing French in the World: Transnational Identities and Transcultural Ideals in the Works of Michel Houellebecq and Boualem Sansal -- 13 Literature's Purchase: Remaking World Economic Relations in Crusoe's Footsteps 14 Worlding Négritude, or Aimé Césaire's Global Caliban -- 15 From Postmodern Intertextuality to "Decomposed Theater": Matei Vișniec between Romanian and Francophone Literatures -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Copyright. - Mode of access: World Wide Web "Francophone Literature as World Literature examines French-language works from a range of global traditions and shows how these literary practices draw individuals, communities, and their cultures and idioms into a planetary web of tension and cross-fertilization. The Francophone corpus under scrutiny here comes about in the evolving, markedly relational context provided by these processes and their developments during and after the French empire. The fifteen chapters of this collection delve into key aspects, moments, and sites of the literature flourishing throughout the francosphere after World War II and especially since the 1980s, from the French Hexagon to the Caribbean and India and from Québec to the Maghreb and Romania. This body of work claims, with particular force in the wake of the littérature-monde debate, its place in a more democratic world republic of letters, where writers, critics, publishers, and audiences are no longer beholden to traditional centers of cultural authority"--
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