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...Rashana Vikara Lydner This essay examines the discourse surrounding respectability politics and the French Guianese “bad gyal” Bamby’s performance of femininity in French Guiana and the wider French Caribbean. It argues that Bamby’s style of s’habiller sexy (dressing sexy) is more than just her way...

...Shanna Jean-Baptiste This essay explores the decolonial future imagined by the Black women who make up Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). A much-needed project of historical redress, Joseph-Gabriel’s study...

... on Contemporary European and Caribbean Writing in French Mary Gallagher To make a distinction between contemporary European and contemporary Caribbean writ- ing in French is not just to open up the conceptual Pandora’s box of la francophonie but also, if not chiefly, to beg the question...

...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...

..., and linguistic borders of postcolonial literature. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature-World—in French Kaiama L. Glover Like the diagnosis of an illness with regard to the doctor, the analysis of the manifesto is empowering for the critic. The manifesto appeals...

...Jacqueline Couti The French Creole term makoumè does not belong to the political and cultural discussions by French Caribbean LGBT communities seeking protection against abuse using the laws sanctioned by the French government. One would also be hard-pressed to find local and Caribbean...

...Grégory Pierrot This essay presents and studies five different words used in French to express the notion of Blackness . The five words analyzed— nègre , noir , black , renoi , and négro —entered the French language between the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century...

...Christina Kullberg In French Caribbean literature, translations from Creole to French, along with the inclusion of Creole orality in novels written in French, constitute a broader form of intracultural translation that expose problematic tensions between sameness and difference. The essay starts...

...Fayçal Falaky This essay engages the broad question of the relation between the French Enlightenment and colonial racial slavery by exploring the literature of planters and slavetraders in the French Caribbean and showing how the ideals of French Enlightenment philosophy were not always framed...

...Stella Vincenot This article shows how Patrick Chamoiseau's struggle against neocolonial forms of domination of Martinique is remarkably similar to French Regionalism, a movement fighting for political and cultural autonomy of the French Provinces in the early XXth Century. Given the fate of French...

... white, Catholic (or secular humanist) roots, the historical reality is that French identity has never been uniform or stable. Wilks argues that, although Césaire's affirmation of specificity may seem contrary to French republican ideals, her writings suggest a means of addressing the cultural-political...

...Martin Munro The Littérature-monde manifesto, published in 2007, seems to announce a new era for writing in French from non-metropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world. This article...

... capacity that was his to incarnate different phases and options of critique resides in his institutional practice. This essay evokes this particular aspect of Hall's work in order to cast a decentered glance on the French university. Understanding the relation between critique and the university...

... 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...

... relationship with creole and creoleness as two different fictive ethnicities that are signified differently in Latin America and the French and Anglo-Caribbean, respectively. The essay concludes with a proposal for the Spanish Caribbean as a heuristic that reconnects Spanish, Anglo-, and French Caribbean...

...Greg Beckett This essay offers a critical discussion of Yarimar Bonilla's Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015). It argues that Bonilla's account of labor politics in the French Department of Guadeloupe provides us with new ways of thinking about...

... go unaccounted for and counters the commodification of select heroes by giving voice to the voiceless and minimizing the iconization of Victor Schoelcher and sacrificial hero Louis Delgrès. Maximin’s novel proves a resistant act intended to fracture the continuity of French colonial power maintained...

...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This conversation piece celebrates Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s inspiring study Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) through the parallel histories of the Martinican theorist Suzanne Césaire and the Haitian intellectual...

...Tobias Warner Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) models the critical possibilities of attending to the overlooked records of Black women’s political imaginations. This discussion essay explores what happens if we...