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Une lecture de l'oeuvre d'A. Kourouma envisagée sous l'angle de son engagement politique. Elle suggère que l'écrivain ivoirien fait un usage critique de la langue française pour continuer le combat de la décolonisation, notamment des esprits, en agissant sur les plans linguistique et culturel. Dans un contexte postcolonial, il propose une remise en question de la politique africaine de la France.

African literature (French) --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Politics and literature --- Littérature africaine (française) --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Kourouma, Ahmadou --- Political activity --- Littérature africaine (française) --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Political activity.

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Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.

Sociology of literature --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Crime in literature --- Cross-cultural studies --- Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- History and criticism.

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Cet ouvrage explore les relations entre littérature et tradition postcoloniale, tout en interrogeant les principes qui ont guidé jusqu'ici les études postcoloniales, en particulier la prégnance de l'activisme politique au coeur du travail de représentation littéraire et le lien sous-jacent entre rupture politique et innovation poétique.

Postcolonialism in literature --- Continuity in literature --- Politics and literature --- Literature, Modern --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Continuité dans la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littérature anglophone --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Continuité dans la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire et critique. --- Themes, motives.

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Postcolonial life narratives" draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Palestine, North America, and India, this study follows texts on the move through adaptation, appropriation, and remediation. For postcolonial subjects life narrative offers extraordinary opportunities to present accounts of social injustice and oppression, of violence and social suffering. Testimonial narrative can reach across cultures to produce intimate attachments between those who testify and those who bear witness to legacies of apartheid, slavery, rape warfare, genocide, and dispossession. Thresholds of testimony are subject to change and for some, for example refugees and asylum seekers, opportunities to engage a witnessing public and inspire campaigns for social justice on their behalf are curtailed-these are the 'ends of testimony'. The production, circulation, and reception of testimonial life narrative connects directly to the most fundamental questions of who counts as human, what rights follow from this, and what makes for grievable life. Postcolonial life narrative is a dynamic field of literature and criticism, and this book presents a series of proximate readings that outline its distinctive imaginative geographies.

Postcolonialism in literature --- English literature --- Personal narratives --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Récits personnels --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littérature anglophone --- Autobiographie --- Histoire et critique --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Autobiography --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Récits personnels --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire et critique.

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The fast-growing body of postcolonial drama is progressively gaining its just recognition in the twentieth-century canon of English-language plays. From the vantage point of various samplings along the Trans-Pacific axis linking English Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this monograph seeks to document the significance of this emerging postcolonial theater.

English literature --- Drama --- Dramaturgie --- Engelse letterkunde --- Littérature anglaise --- Commonwealth drama (English) --- English drama --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Théâtre du Commonwealth (anglais) --- Théâtre anglais --- Postcolonialisme --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Realism in literature --- History and criticism --- Théâtre du Commonwealth (anglais) --- Théâtre anglais --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Réalisme dans la littérature