MLA Commons | LLC Francophone | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Francophone. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3ab98575169b38c50f12b905c2a160a8 Julia Frengs started the topic CFP for MLA 2027: Queer Emancipatory Narratives of the Francosphere in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-queer-emancipatory-narratives-of-the-francosphere/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:39:00 -0500 This panel seeks proposals engaging with the articulation of queer emancipatory narratives from throughout the “francosphere.” We aim to consider how queer discourses of emancipation are constructed throughout the French-speaking world, taking into account a variety of cultural norms that might restrict queer voices. We would be delighted to see…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e06941fab37302863906624655c4fa1 William J. Spurlin started the topic CfP for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles: Queer Nations: Remembering Jarrod Hayes in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-in-los-angeles-queer-nations-remembering-jarrod-hayes-2/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:36:22 -0500 This guaranteed session, sponsored by LLC Francophone, celebrates the work of the late Jarrod Hayes, Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, at the time of his untimely passing in 2025, and previously Professor of French and Francophone…[Read more]

]]> 0 584cceced163122960d4b9f4e40d2d13 Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902704/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:04:14 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbef4b774e1811db014244f2516c24f0 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902285/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:05:13 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 df01d75410acc421c32b84d26c0f3263 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889765/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b38497d82f1d41e24e8a09b62bbd376 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887841/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 4411ed8281bca12df4eb15c1feffa9d1 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:08 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> 0 89027516df51f11f75af8c6f7be191bb Siham Bouamer started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC Francophone (2025) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-francophone-2025/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:43:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]

]]> 0 30e6f0749ad44fe27cd2a6d84b8b6d95 Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:16:07 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> 0 34501ae526174346119cff92e335265f Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856311/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:31:11 -0400 Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]

]]> 0 e333ee6c2e0df44b5a27d0b567388f22 Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation with Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/conversation-with-jean-abel-pierre-about-corruption-in-haiti-in-french/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:49:54 -0400 Kwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]

]]> 0 026d8d3f97b0d98ebc4594406d8c0afe Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-3/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 07:21:02 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> 0 436d718673ea658a364b14dfe26e0632 Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817821/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:28:15 -0400 This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]

]]> 0 f65073cda405c4cd244d9d0cf9abcd0e Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771544/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 03:50:49 -0500 In this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.

]]> 0 9500f2724a080849faabb3be4a3998cd Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746405/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:03:29 -0400 Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5864e4b406909c4d83e544a42b11192 Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746400/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:54:30 -0400 Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bd29ff16607fcd4fb562f55876f1ae4 Tobias Warner started the topic MLA 22 CFP - Francophone Studies in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/mla-22-cfp-francophone-studies/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:59:29 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Please see below for several calls for papers in Francophone Studies for MLA 2022 in Washington, D.C. These sessions are sponsored by the LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee. You may submit any queries and paper proposals directly to the session organizers.

Thank you,

Tobias Warner

Global Anti-Racist Movements: The…[Read more]

]]> 0 e627e4e7b2d4093d57d69673fd7455f9 Ashley Williard started the topic CFP: SE17 roundtables on race in early modern France/French studies in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-se17-roundtables-on-race-in-early-modern-france-french-studies/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:01:43 -0400 I am sharing the call for papers for the first virtual SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies) conference being held on Zoom on October 22-23 and November 6-7.

I am reaching out to LLC Francophone because we welcome contributions from scholars in fields beyond early modern French—including Black, Indigenous, and F…[Read more]

]]> 0 8779a0298b4c406f3fa326c645aad50e Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690442/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:50:05 -0400 Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of ​​a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.

]]> 0 4f6f225cee8d5c0bdd970ae67930d08e Nathan H. Dize deposited French #MeToo?: Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing in English Translation in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690379/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:30:30 -0400 Originally founded by Tarana Burke in 2006, the “Me Too Movement” seeks to help survivors of sexual violence, particularly women of color, “to help find pathways to healing” (“metoomvmt.org/about/). Then, in the fall of 2017, the #MeToo hashtag reverberated throughout the Internet, on the front pages of newspapers, and in the public square as…[Read more]

]]> 0 76b490e78df99556ebf341169424f29f Nathan H. Dize deposited A Phenomenology of Gede: Thinking with the Dead in Haiti in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690373/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:28:50 -0400 In the Haitian religious tradition of Vodou, Gede is the lwa, or spirit, concerned with the
beginning of life and the passage into the afterlife, death and regeneration. Gede is often
regarded as the spirit of the people in Haiti because he has a direct connection to every living
being, everyone may call on Gede for protection. Gede’s appeal a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4a643fe4de1e5db0ae75b004a532a0c Nathan H. Dize deposited The Archive as Method: Virtual and Material Archives of the French Atlantic in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690367/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:27:12 -0400 In the last two decades since the publication of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Caribbean historical studies has undergone an ‘archival turn.’ Indeed, archives and formal institutions of knowledge have always been and continue to be an integral part of historical work, but Trouillot’s work has cal…[Read more]

]]> 0 7fcc6f85e74069f6c67ded9edbb04a03 Nathan H. Dize deposited Le Devoir de Mémoire dans la Littérature d’Expression Francophone in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690360/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:25:24 -0400 « La mémoire est un droit » écrit Christiane Taubira dans sa contribution au débat ‘La Mémoire de l’esclavage et ses dérives’ en 2006 pour la revue philosophique Cités. Étant donné que la mémoire est un droit, qu’est-ce que l’on entend par mémoire ? La mémoire de qui et de quoi ? Pourquoi faut-il s’en souvenir ? Quel est le but de la mémoire ? P…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d9f8dd5ab8b98c0c32214acdf82546e Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-extra-anthropcentric-subjects-in-and-from-the-global-south-mla-2021-3/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:00:00 -0500 Extra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split?  Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).

]]> 0 aa911007d313d575a2860e9d6f0577a0 Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Sessions -- MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/llc-francophone-sessions-mla-seattle-2020-2/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:46:54 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Just a reminder about our three sponsored sessions at the 2020 MLA Convention next month.  We hope to see many of you in Seattle!

On behalf of the LLC Francophone Executive Committee,

Karl Ashoka Britto

 

Francophone Studies and the New Humanities

THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 205 (WSCC)

Keywords: cognitive l…[Read more]

]]> 0 22001e48b1f2e8d590c90b2d1b2b4a86 Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Sessions -- MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/llc-francophone-sessions-mla-seattle-2020/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:19:10 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the following three sessions, to be held during the 2020 MLA Convention in January.  We hope to see many of you in Seattle!

On behalf of the LLC Francophone Executive Committee,

Karl Ashoka Britto

 

  1. Francophone Studies and the New Humanities

THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 205…[Read more]

]]> 0 e74c2a8820ab2bdaeb3802e30b593502 Nathan H. Dize deposited La Mulâtresse During the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, âme-africaine and Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis Martiniquaise in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643907/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:25:23 -0400 When we think of the literature produced before, during, and after the two World Wars we rarely think of the Caribbean as a site of significant literary output. Typically, we privilege a white, male, European literary voice. If we do consider literature from elsewhere, it usually follows a pattern of normative privilege. Therefore, it is useful to…[Read more]

]]> 0 991b49dba18a4f56f02b348dced219f3 Nathan H. Dize deposited Intervening in French: A Colony in Crisis, the Digital Humanities, and the French Classroom in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643733/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:28:13 -0400 This essay explore​s​ the use of *A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Crisis of 1789* in the French literature classroom and how it helps address gaps in digital humanities and French language pedagogy while interrogating the colonial positionality of the French Revolution’s digital archive. In 2015, the Newberry Library received a Digit…[Read more]

]]> 0 82279c59c7070b4aa0d4e2aa7fb53029 Nathan H. Dize deposited Taking One Last Breath, Catching One Last Glimpse (a review of L'Etoile Absinthe by Jacques Stephen Alexis) in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643728/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:26:25 -0400 L’étoile absinthe (The Absinthe Star) begins with an image of the Caribbean sun––this infra-rouge mass floats in the sky like a large bird, circling the potomitan. Readers of the novel will immediately notice a patch of text on the very first page is missing, as though time were slowly eating away at the final distinguishable traces of Alexis…[Read more]

]]> 0 d20b037ff6d5362c238a99d481dffe7a Nathan H. Dize deposited Haiti in Translation: Anacaona by Jean Métellus in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643543/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:30:21 -0400 This interview with Susan Pickford considers her translation of Jean Métellus’s 1986 play Anacaona. Susan contacted me via the University of Liverpool’s Francofil Listserv, where she first heard of the blog series. She informed me of her translation of Anacaona, and I leaped at the opportunity to interview her via e-mail about a Haitian auth…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdcd86e7ceceafa6f2138e043458d350 Nathan H. Dize deposited Translating Global Citizenship: Haiti, Charles Moravia, and Woodrow Wilson in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643540/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:28:46 -0400 This is a bilingual edition of Charles Moravia’s poem “La Vision de Président Wilson,” or “President Wilson’s Vision” first published in the Haitian daily, Le Matin on November 4, 1918 in response to Woodrow Wilson’s (in)action regarding post-war peace and reconciliation in Europe.

]]> 0 eee93a894c6c234b23418b1ed755d5ae Nathan H. Dize deposited Beyond the Morality Tale of Humanitarianism: Epistolary Narration and Montage in Raoul Peck's Assistance mortelle in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643536/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:27:14 -0400 This article analyzes Raoul Peck’s use of epistolary narration and montage in his 2012 documentary “Assistance mortelle” (Fatal Assistance), which delves into the immediate aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake and the geopolitics of the recovery process.

]]> 0 184f8c901c6b3f2e16937452e2102afc Nathan H. Dize deposited « Comment écrire en évitant d’exotiser le malheur? » : L’apocalypse et le retour au quotidien dans Je suis vivant de Kettly Mars in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643529/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:25:23 -0400 Après le passage des ouragans, des incendies et des séismes, les médias reviennent toujours à l’apocalyptique, un discours qui vise à répertorier les dommages d’un désastre jusqu’à perdre toute trace d’intimité humaine. Depuis le 12 janvier 2010, des auteurs, artistes, académiciens et acteurs sociaux – activistes et militants – haïtiens se batte…[Read more]

]]> 0 775298e0b63e28c752faba5a2b929fb8 Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Calls for Papers -- Seattle 2020 in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/llc-francophone-calls-for-papers-seattle-2020/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:34:27 -0500 Cinéma-monde francophone

Papers addressing scholarly debates around cinéma-monde through analysis of recent cinematic texts from throughout the Francophone world. 250-word abstracts to Denis Provencher (denisprovencher@email.arizona.edu) by Thursday, March 7, 2019.

The Multilingual Maghreb (in collaboration with LLC Arabic)

Papers addressing m…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d26a35f06a9e916bcfcde9cd6722c94 Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/news-from-h-france-salon-3/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 02:23:00 -0500 As the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]

]]> 0 f388b06950b33bb73b3683c2a42e8ca7 Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/news-from-h-france-salon-2/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 02:12:38 -0500 As the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8bf3577bf5cfbb06ba86a9d271e0118 Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/news-from-h-france-salon/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 02:06:11 -0500 As the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fca5e9acd12d3b835315213e6a8131 Bernard C. Aresu started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/executive-committee-candidate-statement/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:22:07 -0500 I am happy to contribute this brief statement in connection with my nomination as candidate to the executive committee of the MLA’s LLC Francophone.

Currently, I am Laurence H. Favrot Professor emeritus at Rice University whence I just retired from teaching to turn to full time research.

My current book project, The Self in Dissidence: Me…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8c566ad91cefd6b4d5d52bfcdb12916 Tobias Warner started the topic Warner — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/warner-executive-committee-candidate-statement/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:04:15 -0400 Dear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,

I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.

I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis where I teach literature and film from West Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]

]]> 0 dfdbbd579f58ac2cd8c20e1495b2ec69 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Language and Culture of Quebec in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615440/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:13:19 -0400 Detailed Syllabus and outline for a 7-week course in the history of the language and culture of Quebec.

]]> 0 9de14ce27ae3c8b71e957e2c6fbeddf8 Marisa Verna deposited Ces traîtres qui affament notre peuple. Argent et antisémitisme dans la « Recherche » proustienne in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608572/ Thu, 17 May 2018 04:03:09 -0400 The Jewish ‘question’ is treated in the Recherche by way of the Dreyfus Affaire, which is not spoken of but scattered in the discourses of different characters. Definitions, opinions, even facts are, therefore, spread in the ubiquity of social instability, so that it is impossible for the reader to identify any of Proust’s ideologies.In our paper…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e4166931a3c42e4d6bc5d980ca9acb4 Nathan H. Dize deposited An Explosion in the Archives, Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1600959/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 04:12:42 -0500 The digital archive of Saint-Domingue poses major questions relating to power and the production of history, especially since North American institutions possess and have digitized massive collections of French language materials. Once digitized, how will the material be curated, read, and interpreted by the archive’s various users (teachers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc632a01c1474ef6e41fd59b8e05648a Milena Santoro created the doc LLC Francophone forum Leadership meeting in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595145/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:40:02 -0500 0 62ee7bd2fa697d88461a52a9aa6401fe Milena Santoro created the doc LLC Francophone forum Leadership meeting in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595144/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:39:23 -0500 0 cb4a7fb189e9b1a79096288d54594c8b Milena Santoro created the doc LLC Francophone forum Leadership meeting in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595142/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:37:17 -0500 0 7ca92dfec83c2451ad9e14122f2c5a25 Nicholas Rinehart deposited "On Élie and Eric" in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593434/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 05:44:11 -0500 A contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7c4aaa71e9db0b870cf881de47b162f Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1566503/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 20:10:45 -0400 This paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9d63ac1f403512ce30ba66024b72f73 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565333/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:05:36 -0400 Dany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]

]]> 0 c48cb9afa37bd5df53e1d1d3647fe682 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565280/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:30:21 -0400 Author Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee862a0bbc0b55fbab3b49a7bd7e3104 Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière's Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565274/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:11:23 -0400 When all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]

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