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Maryse Condé: Practitioner of Littérature-monde
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 78–88.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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The Blue Savannahs of Memory: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2010
...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...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 186–189.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in French. Her monograph Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory (2007)
and her current research focus on early writing from the Antilles. Her scholarly edition of one
of the first novels from the francophone Caribbean, Louis de Maynard’sOutre-mer (1835), will
appear in L’Harmattan’s...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 260–265.
Published: 01 March 2017
... French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. H. A dlai M urdoch is a professor of French and francophone literature and the director of Africana studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel (2001) and Creolizing the Metropole...
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Connection Failures: Discourse on Contemporary European and Caribbean Writing in French
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 21–32.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the European novel with reference to the `novel of the South' (exemplified by Chamoiseau and Rushdie), his view of the latter still shows no awareness of Glissant's connection of a poetics of Caribbean and Alter-American `self-recovery' with a perspective on world-wide cultural diversity and relationality...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 175–178.
Published: 01 October 2008
... in francophone Caribbean literature
today.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He is
author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century
French and Francophone Cultures (2005), and co...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 208–210.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 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...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of Gisèle
Pineau’s Th e Drifting of Spiritss (1999). He is currently at work on a manuscript entitled
“Surrealism in the Francophone Caribbean.”
Maxence Denis is a Haitian director and video artist whose work plays on the contrasts
between the moving images of video...
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Haiti's Traces
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 177–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of literary criticism surrounding French Caribbean and Haitian literature, and draws on her approach to analyze a selection of novels by Lyonel Trouillot. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Haiti’s Traces
Laurent Dubois
Kaiama L. Glover’s Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon...
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Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 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...
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From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
... in Eloge and that offer a provocative theoretical framework for thinking about ethnographic representations of creole hybridity and métissage in the francophone Caribbean imaginary. These ethnographic representations, which lead the novel deeper into a narrativization of everyday life, also lead...
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World Literature in French: A Caribbean Design?
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 89–98.
Published: 01 November 2010
...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...
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An Excerpt of Marie Léticée’s Camille’s Lakou , with a Translator’s Note
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 171–187.
Published: 01 November 2024
....” [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 francophone Caribbean novel translation Caribbean women writers Guadeloupe Because my mother never wanted me to leave the house alone, I accompanied her on dozens of the round-trip journeys that she made from Monbruno Court to Fleret...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with the journal's editor, David Scott, in spring 2011. At that time, the journal was making an effort to integrate the francophone Caribbean into what had until recently been a primarily anglophone publication. As members of the editorial team sat around the table and discussed questions of translation, language...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Glissant. J ustin I zzo is an assistant professor of French studies at Brown University. Trained in anthropology and literary studies, he teaches classes on francophone African and Caribbean literature, politics, cinema, and cultural studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript that deals...
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The Living Word: Intracultural Translation in Ina Césaire's Zonzon tête carrée
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of folk culture and the novel exposes problematic tensions between sameness and difference within the francophone Caribbean literary universe. All the modes of translation used by these authors who fuse French prose into creole orality—the direct translation of creole tales, the inclusion of short...
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Eulogizing Creoleness? Éloge de la créolité and Caribbean Identity, Culture, and Politics
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
...; 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...
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Aesthetics of “Ex-centricity” and Considerations of “Poverty”
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 166–176.
Published: 01 November 2012
... qui revient au même) [the Martinican Revolution will be made
in the name of bread, certainly, but also in the name of air and poetry (which amounts to the
same thing18
It seems, then, that hunger, poetics, and politics in a francophone Caribbean context are inex-
tricably linked...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Brunswick. Her research and teaching interests include francophone West African and Caribbean literatures, particularly Haitian literature; identity formation and gender politics; visual art and music; and Afrofuturist aesthetics in the francophone world. She is currently working on two book manuscripts...
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