Description:The present collection of essays follows in the wake of recent work in cultural geography challenging the idea that maps are scientifically neutral entities, or that space, unlike time, is immobile. In defining space, place and geography as forms of textuality, the essays collected in this volume examine the ways in which postcolonial and metropolitan literary and filmic texts in French can at once inscribe and produce place and space, and thereby participate in forms of “discursive geographies.” Contributors: Fran?ois Bon; Alexandre Dauge-Roth; Habiba Deming; Zakaria Fatih; Jeanne Garane; Patricia Geesey; Greg Hainge; Sir?ne Harb; Jean-Luc Joly; Chantal Kalisa; Michel Laronde; Val?rie Loichot; Mary McCullough; Michael O’Riley; Pascale Perraudin; Walter Putnam; Antoine St?phani; Abdourahman A. Waberi. Contents Acknowledgements Jeanne GARANE: Introduction Greg HAINGE: Allegorical Geographies: Topographical Transposition and Allegorical Function in Louis-Ferdinand C?line’s Aesthetic Spaces Walter PUTNAM: Raging Against the Night: C?line’s African Episode Pascale PERRAUDIN : Le devoir de violence de Yambo Ouologuem: images et nation au degr? z?ro Sir?ne HARB: Translation, Resistance, and Revision in Evelyne Accad’s Coquelicot du massacre Val?rie LOICHOT: Saint-John Perse’s Imagined Shelter : J’habiterai mon nom Mary MCCULLOUGH: Solidarity, Space and Sisterhood in Assia Djebar’s Ombre sultane and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass Abdourahman A. WABERI: Eloge du nomadisme Jeanne GARANE : Comment faire exister son pays sur la plan?te litt?rature: Entretien avec Abdourahman A. Waberi Zakaria FATIH : Postcolonial Nomads in Alien Landscapes, or the Treasure Hunt in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les yeux baiss?s Michael O’RILEY : Orientalist Remainders and Postcolonial Images of France and Algeria Chantal KALISA: Space, Violence, and Knowledge in Gis?le Pineau’s L’esp?rance macadam Habiba DEMING: Espaces coloniaux et identit?s linguistiques au Maghreb Patricia GEESEY : ‘Faites comme chez vous’: Spatial Appropriation in Franco-Maghrebi Cinema Michel LARONDE : La Fontaine et Salut cousin! : Le st?r?otype scolaire comme sociocritique Jean-Luc JOLY : L’Ecriture cartographique de Georges Perec Alexandre DAUGE-ROTH : Du non-lieu au lieu-dit: Plaidoyers de Fran?ois Bon pour une urbanit? contemporaine Fran?ois BON et Antoine ST?PHANI : Billancourt (extrait) Notes on Contributors Index