Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems

Published: July 22, 2015

Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas’s new translations of Aimé Césaire’s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century…

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Noirs d’encre

Published: July 22, 2015

Dans cet ouvrage original à plus d’un titre, Dominic Thomas explore les impacts sur les sociétés et populations africaines de la dissolution partielle des structures d’États-nations modernes en faveur de…

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Africa and France

Published: July 22, 2015

This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas’s analysis unravels the complex…

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La France noire

Published: July 22, 2015

Le long cheminement de l’histoire des populations afro-antillaises en France a longtemps été absent des représentations de l’histoire de France, dont il est pourtant partie intégrante. C’est dire l’importance de…

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Museums in Postcolonial Europe

Published: July 22, 2015

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in…

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New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres

Published: July 22, 2015

John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve sharp critiques of the nationalist and…

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Black France

Published: July 22, 2015

France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France’s treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics…

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Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages

Published: July 22, 2015

Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor Zrinka Stahuljak reevaluates, in Old French literature and art, two concepts fundamental for the medieval period: genealogy and translatio. She…

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Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes

Published: July 22, 2015

THINKING THROUGH CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES This co-written, multi-stranded book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of lively exchanges, its five authors…

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