Packaging Post/Coloniality by Richard Watts - 9780739108567

Packaging Post/ColonialityThe Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World\nAuthor(s): Richard Watts\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739108567, 978-0739108567\nSynopsis\nIn Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the \""paratext\""the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords that enclose the textmediates creative works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia whose place in the French literary institution was and remains a source of conflict. In order to be acceptable for French bookstore shelves, the novels, essays, and collections of poetry created in colonial territories were deemed to need explanation and sponsorship by an authority in the field. Watts find.