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Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"RethinkingRethinking African Cultural Production (2015)
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Edited by Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow<\/p>\n

Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what \u201cAfrican\u201d means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.<\/p>\n

\"raceRace and Sex across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical, and Theater Discourse (2012)<\/a><\/h2>\n

Jean Genet’s masterpiece\u00a0Les N\u00e8gres<\/i>\u00a0was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first performed at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Lut\u00e8ce in Paris in October 1959. Yet even though the play is more than 50 years old, it remains a fundamental contribution to critical race theory, as Genet unequivocally posits that no matter what a black person does or doesn’t do, simply to be black in our times is itself a tragedy.
\nPlacing Genet in the context of Negritude movement,\u00a0Race and Sex across the French Atlantic<\/i>\u00a0equally reveals and examines blackness within the African-American dialogue with a white French author’s provocative questions about race: “Is a black man always black?” and even more fundamentally, “What is blackness?” Within this framework, to question “blackness,” therefore, is to set out on an ontological quest, as “blackness” has become a real, living thing in its own right within European ideology, social theory, and historical consciousness, even as\u00a0Les N\u00e8gres<\/i>\u00a0has taken its place as a major text in the francophone and philosophical tradition of writing on race.<\/p>\n

In essence, this book concentrates on the way in which language-particularly the French language-has shaped ideas about race within transatlantic discourses, and, with its companion, continental philosophy, has also shaped the historical understanding of discourse on race. It navigates between multiple readings of race within the French Atlantic using Lorraine Hansberry’s play\u00a0Les Blancs<\/i>; Dany Laferri\u00e8re’s\u00a0Comment faire l’amour avec un N\u00e8gre sans se fatiguer<\/i>; Genet’s dialogue with the Black Panthers; and different conceptions of the so-called N word.\u00a0Race and Sex across the French Atlantic<\/i>\u00a0thus explores how\u00a0Les N\u00e8gres<\/i>\u00a0offered a groundbreaking reading of how race functioned-and continues to function-as an all-pervasive discourse that provides a central principle around which society in general is organized.<\/p>\n

(Reviewed by Roxanna Curto<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"voixVoix du monde : Nouvelles francophones\u00a0(2011)<\/a><\/h2>\n

Edited B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Boisseron and Frieda Ekotto<\/p>\n

Voix du monde : nouvelles francophones<\/em>\u00a0est un recueil de quatorze nouvelles, in\u00e9dites ou reprises, \u00e9crit par quatorze auteurs c\u00e9l\u00e8bres, dont treize ont re\u00e7u les distinctions honorifiques du monde litt\u00e9raire francophone. Il se veut une mani\u00e8re de lecture de la litt\u00e9rature francophone qui se refuse d’\u00eatre focalis\u00e9e \u00e0 une r\u00e9gion (continent africain, les Cara\u00efbes ou autres), et offre en lieu et place une d\u00e9marche polys\u00e9mique au-del\u00e0 d’une cartographie particuli\u00e8re. Le d\u00e9bat est d’entr\u00e9e de jeu ouvert entre ce que les \u00e9ditrices nomment “litt\u00e9rature du divers de langue fran\u00e7aise” (15) et la “litt\u00e9rature-monde” (12) de Le Bris. \u00c0 partir d’une fine analyse en guise d’introduction, elles soulignent le danger pervers de cette derni\u00e8re qui, \u00e0 l’image du monde colonial de compartimentation \u00e0 la Fanon, essaierait de “sectariser \u00e0 nouveau la litt\u00e9rature de langue fran\u00e7aise” (14). La litt\u00e9rature du divers, loin de n’\u00eatre qu’une\u00a0theoria<\/em>, dans le sens de contemplation d\u00e9sengag\u00e9e, va se nourrir \u00e0 la source d’une imagination humaniste, comme expression de\u00a0l’Einf\u00fchlung<\/em>\u00a0: la saisie de l’autre afin d’apprendre \u00e0 vivre avec l’autre dans une po\u00e9tique de la relation \u00e0 la Glissant. En rapport avec l’essence m\u00eame de la francophonie, le souci de d\u00e9-compartimentation aura pour point de d\u00e9part le divers, et pour point d’arriv\u00e9e un regard diversifi\u00e9 en des possibles infinis. Il est porteur d’inventions n\u00e9ologiques et de transformations de nouveaux espaces du dicible, audel\u00e0 des fronti\u00e8res vierges de la nation, sans n\u00e9cessairement l’exclure. Le divers \u00e0 ce niveau est la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 qui projette son regard dans le miroir de la langue pour retrouver la polys\u00e9mie de ses mondes. C’est ce qui va donner \u00e0 toutes les contributions de ce collectif un regard, un style qui tire sa source dans la subjectivit\u00e9 ordinaire de tous les espaces physiques avec lesquels les contributeurs ont \u00e9t\u00e9 extraordinairement en contact<\/p>\n

(Review by Charles Gueboguo<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Portrait<\/a>Portrait d\u2019une jeune artiste de Bona Mbella<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"Rethinking<\/a> Rethinking Third Cinema: The Role \u00a0of Anti-colonial Media and Aesthetics in Postmodernity<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"Toutes<\/a>Toutes les \u00a0images du langage : Jean Genet<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"lecriture\"<\/a>L\u2019Ecriture carc\u00e9rale et le discours juridique chez Genet\/Prison Writing and Legal Discourse in Jean Genet<\/a><\/h2>\n

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L’Esprit Cr\u00e9ateur on the topic of “Narrative \u00a0and Confinement”<\/a><\/h2>\n

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