The French Rebellions

Description

The emergence of poetics of deformity among African and Caribbean writers has significantly transformed the Francophone literary landscape. This has given rise to literatures of excess, diasporic political cultures, and the assertion of transgressive writing. These have been described in various ways: oral literatures, minor literatures, colonial/postcolonial literatures, peripheral literatures, and so on. Thanks to *Les Armes miraculeuses* (Aimé Césaire), Francophone rebellions have developed and liberated a number of Caribbean and African authors from the traps set by traditional literatures. This book proposes to read and re-read the cultures, histories and discourses of so-called Francophone literatures, primarily from an African and Caribbean perspective. Frédérique Toudoire and Ethmane Sall have brought together contributions from researchers in Africa, North America and Europe. Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre has published essays in the ‘Paradoxe’ collection with Éditions de Minuit. Other texts have appeared with various publishers. Since 2012, she has co-edited the ‘Comparaisons’ collection with Florence Fix at Éditions Orizons. Ethmane Sall is a specialist in Édouard Glissant. He works on African and Caribbean literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. He co-edited Francophonies “noires” (Lit Verlag, 2018) with Frédérique Toudoire. He has published several collections of poetry.

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