Francophone Oceania today : literature, visual arts, music and cinema /

"Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music and Cinema is a compilation of essays that breaks new ground in the exploration of recent and contemporary cultural expressions emerging from Francophone Oceania. This books explores Francophone Oceania today: a region rich in literary,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Other Authors: Royer, Michelle (Editor), Ségeral, Nathalie (Editor), Vuong, Léa (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2024
Series:Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 15.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. New crossings in Oceanian artistic and cinematic networks
  • Museographical approaches to the French Pacific collections from the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac and the Te Fare Iamanaha-Musée de Tahiti et des îles : an interview with Stéphanie Leclerc Caffarel and Miriama Bono / Victoria Souliman
  • 'Our identity lies ahead of us.' The Tjibaou Cultural Centre Ngan Jila 25 years on : what vision to hope for the house of riches? / Susan Cochrane ; Guillaume Soulard
  • Empowering Oceanic voices : Francophone film festivals and visual autonomy / Michelle Royer
  • Part 2. Solidarity, trans-insular links and ecocritical activism in contemporary Oceania
  • Reframing Francophone travel writing in Oceania : the case of 'Peuples de l'eau' / Cécile Dô Hûu
  • (Re)mothering the island : Chantal T. Spitz and Imasango's poetics of motherhood / Nathalie Ségeral
  • Wrapped islands and invisible artists : rethinking contemporary art in Oceania / Léa Vuong
  • Part 3. Performing the present, reconfiguring the past : contemporary photography, theatre and music
  • Opaque visions of Polynesia : word and image interactions in Marie-Hélène Villierme's Visage de Polynésie, Faces of Polynesia / Josephine Goldman
  • Titaua Porcher's Hina, Maui et compagnie : theatre for a Snapchat culture / Julia Frengs
  • Navigating island life : performing musicians in the Francophone South Pacific / Florence Boulard ; Ryan Daniel
  • Part 4. Islands of shattered dreams, 15 years on
  • De-colonial dilemmas? on translating Chantal T. Spitz / Jean Anderson
  • Why I wrote L'îles des rêves écrasés [Island of shattered dreams] : taking up writing, taking up resistance and questioning official historical narratives / Chantal T. Spitz ; translated by Jean Anderson
  • Rosalie / Chantal T. Spitz ; translated by Jean Anderson
  • The quiet spot : the rain is with me as I pass / Nicolas Kurtovitch ; translated by Jean Anderson