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International Journal of Francophone Studies
Volume 12.2/3
Littérature-monde en français:
the literary politics of twenty-first-century France
A double-issue edition on the current literary trends in ‘international French literature’, debating the alleged
death of distinctly French/Francophone literature and its replacement by ‘world literature written in French’
Sans Souci Palace (Haiti)
Photo: Laurie Williams
Commissioned and coordinated by Kamal Salhi (University of Leeds)
Editorial: (Kamal Salhi)
Articles: The Manifeste des Quarante-Quatre, Francophonie, la françafrique and Africa: from the politics of
culture to the culture of politics (Thomas A. Hale); Universalisms and francophonies (Françoise Lionnet);
Idéologie, esthétique et littérature-monde en français (Carla Taban); Pour une littérature-monde en français:
manifesto retro? (Charles J. Sugnet); ‘Open’ and ‘closed’ languages in the postcolonial era (Mohamed
Benrabah); Francophone manifestos: on solidarity in the French-speaking world (Julie-Françoise Kruidenier);
Literary tourism, littérature monde, and the ethics of conversation in Ernest Pépin’s L’Envers du décor
(Jeannine Murray-Román); Listening to Ralph Ellison’s music: Farida Belghoul and the question of invisibility
(Anissa Talahite-Moodley); La Femme de Gilles de Madeleine Bourdouxhe, ou la ‘fulgurante identité’ d’un
roman belge de langue française (Thérèse Migraine-George); Redeeming Francophonie: a new concept of
francité (Simona Livescu); La Littérature-monde in the ‘New Morocco’: literary humanism for a global age
(Valérie K. Orlando); Cercles francophones et français lingua franca: pour une francophonie liquide (Marjut
Johansson and Fred Dervin).
Forum: Cent ans de migration littéraire (David L. Parris); La littérature-monde en français: mélancolie ou
illusion? (Farid Laroussi); Francophonie and universality: the ideological challenges of littérature-monde
(Jacqueline Dutton); Countering canons, confronting francophonie: worldwide women’s literature in French
(Alison Rice); World writing in French and the dimension of dialogue: the right to choose and the choice to
write (Pádraig Ó Gormaile); La ‘littérature-monde’: un désir de nom (Awa Coumba Sarr); L’écrivain africain et
la littérature-monde: l’ambition de l’universel? (Kusum Aggarwal); Littérature-monde: hospitality in/and the
Tower of Babel (Safoi Babana-Hampton); Pour une littérature-monde et Eloge de la créolité: deux manifestes,
deux visions de la littérature incompatibles, concurrentes, consécutives? (Stéphanie Bérard).
Premiere bilingual international journal in Francophone postcolonial studies ISSN 1368-2679
Founder and Editor-in-Chief: Kamal Salhi ( University of Leeds)
Available from the British Library, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, Library and Archives Canada, the French Bibliothèque Nationale
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