{"title":"Deserts of the Real: Paris and the Algerian Sahara as Postmodern Simulacra in Malek Haddad’s Je t’offrirai une gazelle","authors":"Valentin Duquet","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384783","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits an overlooked foundational text of early Algerian Francophone literature: Je t’offrirai une gazelle by Malek Haddad (1959). Reading Haddad’s novel through postcolonial and pos...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Poetics of the Desert: Nina Bouraoui’s Emancipatory Geography in Garçon Manqué","authors":"Molly O’Brien","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384788","url":null,"abstract":"Comprising roughly eighty percent of Algeria’s land mass, the Sahara is a significant part of its geography. As such, it often makes an appearance in Francophone Algerian literature in various ways...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edmond Jabès et l’éthique du désert","authors":"Eric Benoit","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384818","url":null,"abstract":"The desert is important in Jabès’ work, because it is for him the place for poetic speech to emerge: speech (midbar in Hebrew) comes from the desert (midbar also). This is to be understood at the b...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lire/Ecrire l’Histoire dans le Désert – Alain Nadaud, Charif Majdalani","authors":"Dominique Viart","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384792","url":null,"abstract":"In Désert physique (1987) by Alain Nadaud, an archaeologist discovers traces of the first human library while war (Iran vs Iraq, never named) threatens to erase them forever. In Dernière oasis (202...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Every Discipline […] is a Lineage of Begetting”: The Generation(s) of Francophone Caribbean Studies in the UK and Ireland","authors":"Charles Forsdick","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2342680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2342680","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the emergence of Francophone Caribbean studies in Great Britain and Ireland. It focuses on the first generation of scholars—Richard D.E. Burton, Bridget Jones, Roger Little and...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Les femmes dans l’ombre”: Gendering the 1946 Revolution in Haitian Literature","authors":"Kate Hodgson","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2342658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2342658","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines revolutionary episodes, particularly the events of January 1946 in Haiti, which stage the exclusion/inclusion of women’s bodies in post-revolutionary politics. These were tens...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster, Transgenerational Endurance and Duration in Béké Writing","authors":"Margaret Cunningham","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2342661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2342661","url":null,"abstract":"This article interrogates the preoccupation with transgenerational endurance and duration apparent in béké representations of “natural” disaster. It begins with a brief overview of the earliest lit...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Comment devient-on une écrivaine?”: Pineau, Kanor, Octavia","authors":"Lorna Milne","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2342657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2342657","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Gisèle Pineau’s Fleur de Barbarie (2007), Fabienne Kanor’s Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure (2016) and Gaël Octavia’s La Bonne Histoire de Madeleine Démétrius (2020). Striki...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141504386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Other Americans: Michael Dash and the UWI Generation","authors":"Martin Munro","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2342681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2342681","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages with the legacy of a generation of scholars working at the University of the West Indies (UWI), principally at Mona, Jamaica, in the late 1960s. Drawing on interviews with some...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« Un cri noué en forme de langage » : Malemort, ou la naissance du modernisme antillais","authors":"Hugues Azérad","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2342670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2342670","url":null,"abstract":"Glissant’s novel Malemort triggered in Chamoiseau a lasting fascination for this style of writing that was both negative and almost impenetrable in its language and narration, but paradoxically lib...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}