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Michel Laronde
Selected Publications

Books and Editions

Postcolonialiser la Haute Culture à l’Ecole de la République (Editor. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008) studies how postcolonial subjects in France reinterpret references to classical literary models used in school to teach language and values. This process of an ongoing evolution of the Culture of the Nation is approached through studies of immigration literature and postcolonial cinema.

Leïla Sebbar (Editor. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003) A collection of articles on Leïla Sebbar, a prolific post-colonial author in France.

With the participation of Cornelia Ruhe (Germany) Denise Brahimi, Christiane Chaulet-Achour, Marie-France Chitour, Dominique Le Boucher, Leïla Sebbar (France), Margaret Majumdar (United Kingdom), Armelle Crouzières-Ingenthron, Anne Donadey, Brigitte Lane, Mary Mc Cullough, Mildred Mortimer (United-States)

L'écriture décentrée. La langue de l'Autredans le roman contemporain (Editor. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996)

A collection of articles on postcolonial fiction and the fiction of immigration in contemporary France. On questions of style, narratology, discourse analysis, and theory of the novel.

With the participation of Caroline Eysel, Anne Gualino, Marc Sourdot (France), Martine Delvaux, Alec Hargreaves, Mireille Rosello (United-Kingdom), Odile Cazenave, Sylvie Durmelat, Michel Laronde, Monique Manopoulos (United States).

Autour du roman beur. Immigration et Identité (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993)

A study of the identity of second and third generation North Africans in France in the 1980s through their literary output. Theorizing on identity (race, the Other, cross-cultural discourse, Difference, neo-Orientalism…)

Textbook

En Route: Introduction au français et au monde francophone, A. Valdman, M. Barnett, E. Holekamp, M. Laronde, S. Sieloff Magnan, C. Pons (MacMillan, 1986)

Recent Articles and Chapters in Books

“La Départementalisation: les DOM-ROM entre postcolonial et postcontact” in Departmentalization at Sixty: The French DOMs and the Paradoxes of the Periphery, a special issue of IJFS (Adlai Murdoch & Jane Kuntz, Vol. 11:1, 2, 2008), “ ‘Effets d’Histoire’. Représenter l’Histoire postcoloniale forclose” in a 2007 special issue of IJFS (Azzedine Haddour & Margaret Majumdar, Vol. 10: 1 and 2); “La Fontaine et Salut cousin!. Le stéréotype scolaire dans le cinéma arabo-français” in Discursive Geographies: Writing Space and Place in French/Géographies discursives: l’écriture de l’espace et du lieu en francais (Jeanne Garane, Rodopi, 2005); “La veine Beaujolais’. La question d’une littérature mineure chez René Fallet” in René Fallet. Vingt ans après (Marc Sourdot, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005); “Displaced Discourses: Post(-)coloniality, Francophone Space(s), and the Literature(s) of Immigration in France” in Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies (Anne Donadey & Adlaï Murdoch, UP of Florida, 2005).

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