The Anthologies "Étonnants Voyageurs": From the Geography of Literature-World to World-Literature in French
Because World literature in French has generally been reduced to literature writing “in French”, our study aims to show that this has not always been the case. Before the publication of the manifesto of the 44 and the anthology Pour une littérature-monde, the notion, linked to the activities carried out around the Étonnants Voyageurs festival, had largely evolved. By taking a retrospective reading of the geographical spaces modelled by the manifesto discourses and the association of the contributors with a country in the anthologies published under the banner of this movement, we show that this concept refers in turn to a European, postcolonial, extra-hexagonal and international literature in French in France.