The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies is pleased to acknowledge the continued generous support of Liverpool University Press for this year’s annual conference.
LUP publishes a wide range of cutting-edge research in Francophone studies. The below titles will be of particular interest to SFPS members.
Series spotlight: Francophone Postcolonial Studies, published in partnership with SFPS, features research that will help to set new research agendas across the entire field.
New to the series
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere Nsah Mala and Nicki Hitchcott
Through a postcolonial lens, this book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today.
Francophone Oceania Today Literature, Visual Arts, Music, and Cinema Edited by Michelle Royer, Nathalie Ségeral, and Léa Vuong
This edited book brings overdue focus to Oceania within Francophone postcolonial studies. It examines circulation networks and measures the global diffusion and reception of Francophone Oceanian culture today.
Also in French and Francophone Studies
Available Open Access
Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities
Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings
Edited by Jacqueline Couti and Anny-Dominique Curtius
This book is a unique interdisciplinary cross-talk centering feminine praxes, activism, and transoceanic counternarratives.
Tale of Black Histories
A Translation and Critical Edition
Translated and edited by Andrew Daily and Emily Sahakian
First translation of Histoire de nègre, which annotates the play’s composition and contextualizes it for scholars and students.
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New in French and Francophone Studies Journals
LUP Open Languages, a new Subscribe to Open initiative, enables libraries worldwide to help make high-quality scholarship Open Access. When enough institutions subscribe, authors publish OA without fees and readers gain access to the latest research. Subscribers also enjoy exclusive archival access to journals including Australian Journal of French Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, JRS, French Studies, and Québec Studies.
Most Read Journal Articles
Free to Read This Month
Algerian Cultural Production Sixty Years after Independence by Patrick Crowley
Marking Whiteness, Unmarking Blackness: Listening and Looking in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse and Amandine Gay’s Ouvrir la voix by Abigail E Celis
The limits of White hospitality in Marie Darrieussecq’s La Mer à l’enversby Amanda Vredenburgh
Open Access
Playing devil’s advocate: Digging up the colonial past in Pierre Nora’s Les Lieux de mémoire by Etienne Achille
(Re)thinking (post)colonial landscapes of the French-speaking world by Sky Herington and Orane Onyekpe-Touzet
Plan Coup-de-Poing and Plan Paso-Doble: The OAS Dream of a Coup d’état in France by Cian Cooney
