Francophone literatures today: between the postcolonial and the global

‘’Francophonie‘’ today constitutes a literary archipelago of global importance. As there are still many misunderstandings regarding the notion of ‘francophone’, it is particularly interesting to look at these literatures from a postcolonial perspective, in order to assess their
own creativity and to dispel the ambiguities associated with it. Pr Jean-Marc Moura will present some recent developments in these literatures and show how their study is now situated at the crossroads of postcolonial research and studies on globalisation.

Jean-Marc Moura is emeritus Professor of Comparative and Francophone Literature at Paris Nanterre University, and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His work focuses on exoticism, francophone and postcolonial literatures, humour in literature and world literature.

He recently published Littératures francophones et théorie postcoloniale, 4 th ed., Paris : P.U.F., « Quadrige », 2019 ; La Totalité littéraire. Théories et enjeux de la littérature mondiale, Paris : P.U.F., 2023. With Silvia Contarini/Claire Joubert (eds.) : Penser la différence culturelle du colonial au mondial. Une anthologie transculturelle, Sesto San Giovanni, Mimesis, 2019 ; with S. Contarini (eds.) : Écrire la différence culturelle du colonial au mondial. Une anthologie littéraire transculturelle, Sesto San Giovanni, Mimesis, 2022.