...Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Spivak POSTCOLONIALISM IN FRANCE l offer underdemonstrated work in progress. A literary education has left me with a need to flesh out with bibliographic research what I can think. I try to earn the right to learn a broad focus by traveling to work with the ones excluded...

...Doris L. Garraway Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Doris L. Garraway TOWARD A LITERARY PSYCHOANALYSIS OF POSTCOLONIAL HAITI: DESIRE, VIOLENCE, AND THE MIMETIC CRISIS IN MARIE CHAUVET'S AMOUR Critics of Haitian writer Marie Chauvet's controversial novel, Amour...

...Emmanuelle Saada; Madeleine Dobie Emmanuelle Saada and Madeleine Dobie INTRODUCTION: SPECIAL CLUSTER: THINKING THE POSTCOLONIAL IN FRENCH T his special issue of The Romanic Review collects some of the papers presented at "Thinking the Postcolonial in French: History, Politics, Literature...

...Nabil Boudraa [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Maghreb interdisciplinarity linguistic diversity postcoloniality The field of French and Francophone studies in US academia has evolved a lot...

... that his translation of poets from English, Arabic, and German into French is thus “doubly foreign” because his French is steeped in his Arabic culture and language. The essay advocates for the peaceful coexistence of any two languages, and especially the postcolonial coexistence of Arabic and French...

...Emmanuelle Saada Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Emmanuelle Saada RESPONSE TO BACHIR DIAGNE I n recent years, the intellectual trajectory of French studies has been marked by two important tendencies: the inclusion of Francophone and postcolonial studies within...

... for the field of French or Romance studies as it engages with the questions raised by postcolonial literature and theory. On the one hand, they reflect an imperative to broaden our intellectual horizons: to explore the trajectories of the French language outside of Europe. On the other, we hear the admonition...

... with France's colonial and postcolonial history. This enquiry is undertaken through the lens of cultural productions including political theory, cinema and the novel. As the editors note in the Introduction, an important frame for this reflection is the acute sense of loss of influence and prestige that has...

...: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1988 . Quijano Aníbal . “ Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America .” In Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate , edited by Moraña Mabel , Dussel Enrique...

.... There, the university enrolled me in intensive French language classes that immersed me in the culture and prepared me for my major coursework in French starting from the second year. Upon the completion of my master’s program in International Affairs, also at Sciences Po, I enrolled in a course on postcolonial...

... (and even for the twentieth-century texts that interest her here) Berman avoids using an exclusively postcolonial, racial or gender studies lens, adopting instead a rigorous historical and textual approach that allows her to do full justice to her literary object, while sketching out the contours of its...

...Meryem Belkaïd [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Algeria decolonial agency postindependence stories Postcolonial studies, which emerged at the end of the 1970s in the United States, impacted many fields...

... risks and costs this investment in upholding the right to creativity has incurred on the queer community. Following Tengour’s meditation on translation in a bilingual postcolonial context, Josué Rodríguez reads the oeuvre of the Peruvian surrealist César Moro, himself a translator of French...

... Indian literature" 11 by her fellow male writers and critics, Heremakhonon contained in narrative form an implicit theory of "order, disorder, and freedom" and an imaginative engagement with colonial, neocolonial, and postcolonial history. To re-read this first novel in the critical contexts of traumatic...

... and subjectivity that can be "braided" together by (or for) the Caribbean subject in a new dynamic of identity creation. Franc;oise Lionnet, for example, recuperates Caribbean fragmentation, and sees it as the source of a new energy for positive change, saying that: "The postcolonial subject becomes quite adept...

...” fields—this is somewhat understandable given the United States is majority-white and university hiring is notoriously difficult and slow. The current faculty specialties most likely reflect the subjects that were in vogue before decolonial and postcolonial studies’ boom in popularity. I’m also well aware...

... product of a dialogue between self-identified Creoles and non-Creoles? What Creole forms (narrative, thematic, linguistic) have colonial and postcolonial 'writing back' taken? Creole Crossings makes an important contribution to the fields of gender, race, and postcolonial studies. In charting the literary...

... attention paid to Francophonic / postcolonial matters) are such pieces as Emily Apter's "Conde's Creolite in Literary History" (in a special number on Maryse Conde), Michel Fabre's "Oublies par la N.R.F.? Marginalite du modernisme noir" (in a special number devoted to the famous journal), or Madeleine...

... and postcolonial experience, while at the same time acknowledging the exceptional character of her situation. The essays collected in this volume of Romanic Review were first delivered at a memorial conference entitled "Assia Djebar: Patterns of Resistance," held at Columbia University on October 16,2015. Written...

... a postcolonial lens, focusing primarily on Algerian colonial history. As a result, the reading of French patriarchy in her work is frequently confined to the framework of French imperialism, where it is seen as an oppressive structure, but also as a liberating outlet: Djebar's French education opened the door...