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Radically Fantastical: Metamorphosis and the “Racialized” Event in the New Un-French Novel Thursday, April 2 French artists and theorists of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries display acute ambivalence when faced with the problem of how to define, represent and assess social events and historical shifts that appear to exceed the conceptual capacities of the era and situation that have preceded and “given birth” to those very shifts and events. This paper will argue that a crucial and overlooked source of provocative enquiry into the contemporary, post-modern and post colonial subject’s reaction before a cataclysmic shift can be located in the contemporary French “fantastic” novel, and more particularly in the ethnic inflections that troublesome genre is accorded in the recent work of such authors as Marie NDiaye and the Algerian writer Mohammed Dib. Andew Asibong is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st-century
French and francophone literature, thought, and film at Birkbeck,
University of London. Before coming to Birkbeck in 2006, he taught
at the University of Paris X (Nanterre), King's College London,
and the University of Nottingham. He is an affiliate member of the
Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in
Europe, a
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