Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics T... - 9781800349186

Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics TodayAuthor(s): Lia Brozgal, Sara Kippur\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800349186, 978-1800349186\nSynopsis\nBeing Contemporary is a volume of original essays by 23 preeminent scholars of French and Comparative literature, hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, in response to the editors invitation to think through the contemporary. The volume offers a sustained critical reflection on the contemporary as a concept, a category, a condition, and a set of relationships to others and to ones own time. Being Contemporary emerges from a sense of a critical urgency to probe the notion of the contemporary, and the place of the contemporary critic, in French literary and cultural studies today. Its point of departure is Susan Suleimans book Risking Who One Is (Harvard, 1994), which proposed two decades ago that being contemporary offers a .