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Small Axe : Francophone Caribbean issue

Small Axe : Francophone Caribbean issue

Publié le par Marielle Macé (Source : Martin Munro)

Since its inception in 1997, Small Axe has established itself as the leading journal in Caribbean cultural studies. Until recently, its focus has been largely on the Anglophone Caribbean. In September 2006, it published a special issue on Haiti, and a further Haiti-centred issue will appear in September 2008. Sensitive to the importance of continuing to broaden its scope, Small Axe is now dedicating one issue per year to the Francophone Caribbean, to be edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. The next Francophone issue will appear in September 2009; the Call for Papers for this issue is copied below. We also invite submissions of papers (in French or English) for subsequent issues, on any aspect of Francophone Caribbean cultural studies. Please send all enquiries for the Francophone Caribbean issues to Martin Munro (mmunro@fhe.uwi.tt) or Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (ewalcotthackshaw@fhe.uwi.tt). 

Call for Papers Relating the Francophone Caribbean, Small Axe 30 (September 2009) In the mid-twentieth century, Francophone Caribbean authors and intellectuals operated in an international, multilingual context. Aimé Césaire and Léon Gontran Damas first collaborated in Paris and worked in a pan-African frame that allowed them to be known far beyond their Caribbean homelands. Jacques Roumain communicated with Nicolas Guillén, while René Depestre established a wide network of collaborators that included Jorge Amado, Pablo Neruda, and Richard Wright. Conversely, too, interactions between metropolitan French intellectuals and their Caribbean counterparts were at this time frequent and productive: Sartre with Césaire; Breton and Mabille with Césaire and Alexis and Depestre. These connections enabled Francophone Caribbean thought, literature, and visual art to have a considerable influence on movements and individuals outside their immediate contexts, and to enjoy international recognition and notoriety.     On the surface, it seems that subsequent generations of Francophone Caribbean intellectuals and artists have not established to the same extent international networks of influence and collaboration, or at least that these connections are not as well known or understood as those of previous generations. This special issue of Small Axe seeks to tease out and analyze the connections between the contemporary literature, thought, visual art, and film of the Francophone Caribbean (including Haiti)  and those of other countries and territories in the Caribbean and beyond. What kind of influence is the contemporary Francophone Caribbean having on other traditions? Are the ideas of Edouard Glissant being translated and applied to contexts outside the Francophone Caribbean? Is the Francophone theorization of Caribbean creolization shaping debates on hybridity in other places? Is the writing of exile and globalization from the Francophone Caribbean relevant to broader debates on these issues? Are Caribbean visual artists and filmmakers influencing their domains internationally? In short, how can we assess the importance and pertinence of the Francophone Caribbean to the contemporary world? We invite proposals (in English or French) for papers to be published in this special issue of Small Axe in September 2009. Proposals (250-300 words) should be sent as Word attachments, by 30 April 2008 to mmunro@fhe.uwi.tt or ewalcotthackshaw@fhe.uwi.tt. Accepted papers will be confirmed by mid May 2008. The deadline for receipt of accepted papers will be 31 October 2008.      www.smallaxe.net