French Global: A New Approach to Literary History

CONTENTS

Introduction: The National and the Global
Susan Rubin Suleiman and Christie McDonald

Acknowledgments

PART I • SPACES

1 Worlding Medieval French
Sharon Kinoshita

2 “There’s a New World Here”: Pantagruel via Oronce Finé
Tom Conley

3 The Global and the Figural:
Early Modern Reflections on Boundary-Crossing
Jacob Vance

4 Globality and Classicism: The Moralists Encounter the Self
Eric Méchoulan

5 From the Rectangle to the Globe: Theater in
the Ancien Régime
Jérôme Brillaud

6 Planetary Perspectives in Enlightenment Fiction
and Science
Natasha Lee

7 Homesickness in an Expanding World:
The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Lyric
Evelyne Ender

8 Critical Conventions, Literary Landscapes,
and Postcolonial Ecocriticism 127
Françoise Lionnet

9 Literature, Space, and the French Nation-State
After the 1950s
Verena Andermatt Conley

10 All Over the Place:
Global Women Writers and the Maghreb
Alison Rice

PART II • MOBILITIES

11 Speaking the Other:
Constructing Frenchness in Medieval England
Kimberlee Campbell

12 Walking East in the Renaissance
Phillip John Usher

13 Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal
Faith E. Beasley

14 On the Ethnographic Imagination
in the Eighteenth Century
Christie McDonald

15 The Slave Trade, La Françafrique, and the
Globalization of French
Christopher L. Miller

16 The Voyage and Its Others:
Nineteenth-Century Inscriptions of Mobility
Janet Beizer

17 Traffic in Translation: Rereading Supervielle
Sylvia Molloy

18 From the French Roman Colonial to the Francophone Postcolonial
Novel: René Maran as Precursor
F. Abiola Irele

19 French Literature in the World System of Translation
Gisèle Sapiro

20 Intellectuals Without Borders
Lawrence D. Kritzman

PART III • MULTIPLICITIES

21 Language, Literature, and Identity in the Middle Ages
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet

22 Negotiating with Gender Otherness:
French Literary History Revisited
Danielle Haase-Dubosc

23 Specters of Multiplicity:
Eighteenth-Century Literature Revisited from the Outside In
Yves Citton

24 Speculation and Economic Xenophobia as Literary World Systems:
The Nineteenth-Century Business Novel
Emily Apter

25 Jews and the Construction of French
Identity from Balzac to Proust
Maurice Samuels

26 Traversal of Languages: The Québecois Laboratory
Lise Gauvin

27 Space, Identity, and Difference in Contemporary Fiction:
Duras, Genet, NDiaye
Michael Sheringham

28 “Présence Antillaise”: Hybridity and the Contemporary
French Literary Landscape
Mylène Priam

29 Choosing French: Language, Foreignness, and the
Canon (Beckett/Némirovsky)
Susan Rubin Suleiman

List of Contributors