France’s Racial Spring

Aug 26th, 2020 Mame-Fatou Niang

Very informative read, in English and in French, about France’s racial history, its “race blindness” and the protests in France sparked by the death of George Floyd.

It would be great if the #ScholarStrike picked up steam to make a powerful statement about racial injustice in this country. Please share with others and consider joining the movement:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/28/professors-plan-strike-racial-justice

https://www.lumni.fr/

This website contains a plethora of videos and other material targeting primary and secondary students in France on a wide range of topics. Some videos are blocked from viewers in the US but many are available. A useful resource for educational audio/visual material, particularly as many of us adapt our courses to a hybrid…[Read more]

“J’étouffe” de Raoul Peck

https://le1hebdo.fr/journal/jetouffe/301/1/article/j-touffe-3898.html

NeMLA 2021: 11-14 March 2021
Francophone African Literatures Outside the Book
This panel invites explorations of literary activity by/about francophone African authors outside the bindings of the printed page. As Rosenthal and Ruffel have observed (2010) with regard to contemporary literature in French broadly considered, literary activity in the…[Read more]

NeMLA 2021: 11-14 March 2021
Réseaux: Strengthening Connections in French and Francophone Studies in Times of Crisis
This roundtable builds on themes and discussion begun at the 2020 convention among early career scholars in French and Francophone Studies, taking into account the acute crisis brought about by the pandemic and its fallout. The…[Read more]

I want to share abstracts of two recent publications that came out late last year:

“Disidentifying African Authors at a French Writers’ Festival: Mabanckou and Miano at Étonnants Voyageurs.” Research in African Literatures. Volume 50 Number 2 (2019). 49-67. 

“Between France and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alain Mabanckou, and Transatlantic Mis-Readi…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing this, Addie, and congrats on the article in French Review!

I am happy to share that my article “No Future for Mlle de Saint-Loup? Queer Temporality and Histories in A la recherche du temps perdu” was published this month in The French Review Vol. 93, No. 4 (May 2020). The abstract is available here: https://frenchreview.frenchteachers.org/Documents/ArchivesAndCurrentIssue/may20contents.pdf

And I’m…[Read more]