'How do voices find listeners?' To celebrate the release of The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture, we caught up with Jennifer Solheim to discuss the representation of music and listening. The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, why do you think this is … Continue reading
‘World-literature in French’: Ten Years On
To celebrate Free Read Friday this month, Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, interviewed Alain Mabanckou and Abdourahman Waberi to discuss the impact of the 2007 manifesto for a 'world-literature in French'. Ten years ago, on 15 March 2007, Le Monde des Livres published a manifesto advocating a 'world-literature in French'. Pointing to … Continue reading