...Laurence Denié-Higney; Vera Klekovkina To conclude, pivoting toward global French studies requires work, dedication, and imagination because it means to renovate yet again why , what , and how we teach in French programs. Having previously discussed the role of machine translation...

... .” Common Knowledge 25 , nos. 1–3 ( 2019 ): 21 – 42 . César Moro André Breton modernism vanguardia poetry translation studies Interpretive delirium begins only when man, ill-prepared, is taken by a sudden fear in the forest of symbols. —André Breton, Mad Love French surrealist...

... with fresh eyes. You may have more power than you believe yourself to have. You may just have to exert it creatively. ________ Poetic musings aside, there are a few concrete things we should be doing in our next phase. First, let’s pick a name—I vote for global French studies—so that our...

... systems. In essence, French and Francophone studies could really be just Francophone studies or global French studies. Indeed, the Canadian version of French could be said to be just as legitimate as the so-called standard French, given that it is a language that grew parallel to its European counterpart...

... studies to argue that scholars of different periods and methodologies can and ought to reinvest in a shared inheritance of global French. I am aware that much of my thinking in this essay comes from having been immersed in the canonical French literary tradition and, in recent years, its contemporary...

... order. Hence, we have numerous studies of the transformations wrought by French, British, Portuguese, and German colonialism in Africa and Asia. This new project takes an entirely different approach, showing the ways in which our contemporary "globalized" world was not just produced by Europeans...

... multidisciplinary training and work in conjunction with film and media studies, gender studies, medieval studies, Middle East studies, and world literature. The global scale of French linguistic and cultural practices is evident in our pedagogy and scholarship. In order to understand France, as well as far-flung...

..., the voices of those thinking the postcolonial in French outside of the Hexagon today are not much heard in France. Yet, the stakes and the content of this global conversation are radically different. In many places in West Africa, as Gregory Mann observes, "the facture coloniale" makes more sense than "la...

... naive way—but the Francophone is already more than global . It might even be more relevant to speak of Francophone studies in the absolute, instead of keeping the dual structure (“French and Francophone”) that often justifies the academic replication of some colonial diarchy in our own departments...

...Imane Terhmina [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Francophone Africa Maghreb decoloniality repair relational ontology In recent years, scholars in contemporary French and Francophone studies have striven...

... literature offered by Harvard Summer School. Studying the works of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Kateb Yacine, and Assia Djebar, among others, opened my eyes to the fact that the French language is a lens through which I can see not only France but the whole world. However, it was not until I moved back...

.... The traditional floor plan of French studies is no longer relevant to the demands of academic institutions and students, who want to be taught portable, critical thinking skills and how to become global citizens. Try looking at the whole building from a neutral distance: Moyen Âge Renaissance, Grand Siècle...

... as Charles Baudelaire’s poetry, became legible in Chinese, so that these expansions of the Chinese worldview also revealed lesser-acknowledged aspects of already existing Chinese culture. For Sara Kippur, the practice of self-translation by authors working in French and English or Spanish reveals...

... been an important current of French political and cultural debates since World War Two. They locate among the symptoms of this malaise the embattled effort to portray France as a political 'exception' that resists the global power of NATO and United States, the dubious support that France has provided...

... donated to the university in 1985. Since then, it has housed Brown’s Department of French and Francophone Studies and Department of Hispanic Studies, and carried the name Rochambeau House, after the General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725–1807), commander of the French troops...

... dissociate it from politics, which offers the contextual background for most productions. French and Francophone studies can only benefit from interdisciplinary perspectives that incorporate politics and international relations. This helps us better understand the impact of both globalization and the current...

... appearance in English marks a new stage of the New York School’s life and history—a crossing from English to French and back by which earlier forms of social, erotic, and political awareness are refracted through a different sensibility and an expanded global consciousness. Tracing the complexities...

... and 90s, however, she returns to this earlier mode of cultural critique. Conde's essay "Unheard Voice: Suzanne Cesaire and the Construct of a Caribbean Identity" (1998) might serve as an appendix to her earlier study of female writers of the French Caribbean. In this later essay, she draws attention...

..., in a congenial, supportive, and uncompetitive environment that restored my sanity further. I could have taken him up on his invitation to study with him in Lyon, where he was to be promoted next. That year, however, a course module I’d signed up for on French as a foreign language led me to apply...

... Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters admirably contributes to its lofty aim of revitalizing the humanities. (SHIRIN A. KHANMOHAMADI, San Francisco State University) Phillip John Usher and Isabelle Fernbach (eds Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance~ Gallica, 27. London: Boydell...