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...Meredith N. Robinson As part of the larger project of assessing the relationship between the Francophone Caribbean and the contemporary world, this article addresses how Francophone Caribbean film is presently impacting the field on a local, regional and international level. This article first...

...Dominique Brebion The titles of the exhibitions and works of visual artists from the Francophone Caribbean often underline the extent to which the theme of memory remains at the heart of their work. This problematic is broken down into three branches. The feeling of an irremediable loss provokes...

... is primarily an anglophone critical enterprise and area of study. The resulting “anglicization” of this important francophone figure overlooks, I argue, the ways in which Fanon's Martinican and francophone background is integral to his intellectual and political contributions and to his influence on later...

... authors from the francophone, hispanophone, and anglophone Caribbean: Aimé Césaire, Lino Novás Calvo, George Lamming, and V. S. Naipaul. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 literary infrastructure cultural capital Pascale Casanova Caribbean literature decolonial critique If we...

... over a period of years in order to arrive at answers to questions of mutual concern. And it argues that the authors of the Éloge , unlike their cultural forefathers in Martinique, Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant, missed an opportunity to include creative people outside of their own francophone...

...Elizabeth Duchanaud With the traditional parameters of what constitutes history and historical event as alienating as colonization itself for the francophone Caribbean, Edouard Glissant argues to historicize alienation by plotting new forms of resistance against domination and oppression, forms...

... considers the case of Haitian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and suggests that this, one of the oldest Francophone literary traditions, can be thought of as a precursor to “littérature-monde.” Focusing on questions of language, style, and relationships with the metropole, the paper situates...

... literary oeuvre spans time periods, countries and genres and she consistently situates herself as a global citizen rather than a “Caribbean” or “francophone” writer. The seeds of this nomadic approach are sown in childhood, evident in her autobiographical narratives Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer (1999...

...Keithley Woolward Directly engaging the recent manifesto and essay collection calling for a world literature in French, this article considers the creolized, hybrid forms of geopolitical and discursive belonging of the Francophone Caribbean participants as a useful starting point for such a project...

... with a `scribal politics' of postcolonialism, it suggests that the Martiniquan author illustrates the uneasy yet ultimately productive relationship between politics and poetics that may be seen to be particularly characteristic of the Francophone Caribbean. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Late Glissant: History...

... of the `Tout-monde', to the postcolonial world as a whole; and this second period coincides with his becoming a much better known figure, particularly in the United States. As an illustration of Glissant's influence beyond the francophone Caribbean, I compare the analyses of his trajectory given by Chris...

... considering postcolonial issues. A number of key commemorative dates over the past two decades have set the scene for a re-visioning of French and francophone history - 1992 was the 500 th anniversary of the new world's “discovery” by Christopher Columbus, 1998 was the 150 th anniversary of the abolition...

... Project (1989), and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (1977). Elizabeth Duchanaud received her PhD in French literature from New York University, where her research focused on works from the francophone Caribbean...

... widespread visibility to artists. He lives in New York and in Guadeloupe. Alessandra Benedicty is an assistant professor of Caribbean and francophone literatures in the DivisionNewJournal York ofof (CUNY). HaitianInterdisciplinary StudiesShe has, andpublishedStudies Studies at inthe...

... Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Contributors Stéphanie Bérard is assistant professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Her research deals with francophone and creolo- phone Caribbean theater from Guadeloupe and Martinique. She...

..., including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Museo de Arte Moderno, México. C elia B ritton is an emeritus professor of French and francophone literature at University College London. She has researched widely on French Caribbean literature and thought, and in particular on Édouard...

... Festival of Berlin in 2004. Rachel Douglas is lecturer in francophone postcolonial studies at the University of Liver- pool. She is a specialist in contemporary Haitian literature, especially that of Frankétienne, and her current research focuses on issues of rewriting...

... regarding canon formation in the postcolonial Americas, calling for critics to rethink canonical fixity, particularly as it relates to the related fields of francophone Caribbean and postcolonial literature.1 Beyond the unveiling of canonical fixity at work in these fields, it is possible...

... from without France’s national borders1—belated recognition, it argues, of the fact that so-called francophone writers have provided the major source of innovation and vitality in 1 American Jonathan Little received the Prix Goncourt and Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française; the Prix...

...; the second part will appear in Small Axe 55 in March 2018—pose that very question. We bring together some of the leading scholars of the francophone Caribbean to address it in a series of new and original essays that set the Éloge in the complex political, social, literary, and intellectual contexts...