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In Le Queer Impérial Julin Everett explores the taboo subject of male homoerotic desire between black Africans and white Europeans in francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. Everett exposes the intersection of power and desire in blanc-noir relationships in colonial and postcolonial black Africa and postimperial Europe. Reading these literatures for their portrayals of race, gender and sexuality, Everett begins a conversation about personal and political violence in the face of forbidden desires.

French literature --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust explore the relationship between Britain and its colonies when the British Empire was at its height. David Adams observes that, because of their structure and specific literary allusions, they also demand to be read in relation to the epic tradition. The elegantly written and powerfully argued Colonial Odysseys focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds. The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port. Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with mortality a symptom of the failure of secular culture to give meaning to death. This concern, in his view, shapes the ways modernist narratives reinforce or critique imperial culture-the authors project onto British imperial experience their anxieties about the individual's relation to the absolute.

Colonies in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Epic literature, English --- Imperialism in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Forster, E. M.

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S’inspirant des écrits et de la méthode d’Edward Saïd, cet ouvrage s’efforce de revisiter certaines catégories de la critique littéraire traditionnelle à la lumière de l’impact de la colonisation sur les représentations et sur l’activité symbolique qu’est la littérature. Dès lors que la France est à la tête d’un empire colonial, peut-on utiliser le terme de littérature nationale sans le revisiter, sans souligner l’importance de la peinture des colonies sur la vision que le Pays projette de lui-même ? Les formes de la littérature réaliste, de la littérature exotique, coloniale, de la littérature mondiale sont ainsi réexaminées et réévaluées en fonction d’une histoire coloniale enfin constituée en objet d’étude. Les récits postcoloniaux eux-mêmes, au sens d’après la colonisation, acquièrent par cette mise en perspective, une nouvelle dimension. Sans doute sont-ils la littérature de fiction privilégiée d’un espace désormais mondialisé

French fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Imperialism in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- History and criticism --- French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism