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On the Return of the (Media) Author: Michel Houellebecq, écrivain médiatique
(2020)This article argues that Michel Houellebecq is an écrivain médiatique, a media author, and examines how and why he engages in a type of authorial strategy that relies on more than the text and presents the author as a ... -
Is The Map More Interesting Than The Territory? A Post-Representational Approach to Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory
(2018)This collaborative, interdisciplinary article analyses Houllebecq’s use of crime fiction and autofiction in The Map and the Territory (2010). The novel’s intra- inter- and extra-textual geographies, including its depiction ... -
'VISUAL CULTURES OF THE BANLIEUES: PRECARIOUS PERIPHERIES OR CREATIVE CENTRES?
(2023)The Parisian banlieues have long been depicted through harmful stereotypes in political speeches, the press and mainstream film as places of violence, crime and poverty, and of social, racial and religious divisions. In ... -
The impact of (un)ethical survival mode duality and choices of the educational elite on the African renaissance
(2024)In postcolonial Africa, education has always been perceived as pivotal for national and continental progress. For many Africans pursuing education abroad, the intent was to contribute to their countries’ development upon ...