Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
In association with Liverpool University Press
Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture
Friday 22 & Saturday 23 November 2013
Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Friday, 22 November 2013
10.00-10.20 Registration
10.20-.10.30 Welcome
10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Literary Institutions
- Madeline Bedecarré, ‘Le Rôle de la francophonie comme institution culturelle’
- Claire Ducournau, ‘Du Débrouillard à “Continents Noirs’: les editions Gallimard et les auteurs issus de l’Afrique subsaharienne francophone’
- Patrick Crowley, ‘Manifeste pour une Cité internationale de la littérature and the ghost of Bourdieu’
12.00-2.00 Lunch/AGM
2.00-3.30 Panel 2: Parallel Sessions
Panel 2a: (Mis)Translation
- Marcella Frisani, ‘”A Literature with a New International Perspective”: Les Conditions sociales de circulation de la contemporary fiction “francophone” dans le marché britannique de la traduction’
- Caroline Williamson, ‘Posttraumatic Growth at the International Level: The Obstructive Role of Translators and Editors’
- Tobias Warner, ‘Mariama Bâ in Translation: World Literature and the Legibility of Feminist Critique in the English and Wolof Versions of Une si longue lettre’
Panel 2b : National Book cultures
- Raphaël Thierry, ‘Situation de l’édition camerounaise au sein du marché global du livre’
- Ursula Gonthier, ‘Print and Power from Persia to Paris : Djavann rewrites Montesquieu’
- Faisal Sahbi and Mehdi Souiah, ‘La nouvelle littérature algérienne au miroir de la presse algérienne francophone : lectures dans les stratégies de subversion et de connivence’
3.30-4.00 Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.00 Panel 3: Parallel Sessions
Panel 3a: Books and the Internet
- Roxanna Curto, ‘The Internet Poetics of Patrick Chamoiseau and Edouard Glissant’
- Stella Cambrone-Lasnes, ‘La Re-présentation de l’espace francophone Caribéen à travers la promotion en ligne de romans antillais contemporains’
Panel 3b: Archives
- Patrick Corcoran, ‘Genetic Criticism and the Archive(s): Rethinking Les Soleils des Indépendances
- Lia Nicole Brozgal, ‘The October 17 Archives: Literary Scholarship, Historical Documents’
5.00-6.00 Plenary Session – Chair: Ruth Bush
Publishers’ Panel: Publishing Francophone African Literature in Translation
James Currey (James Currey Publishing)
Becky Nana Ayebia Clarke (Ayebia Clarke Publishing)
Pete Ayrton (Serpent’s Tail)
6.00-7.00 Vin d’Honneur
7.30 Dinner
Saturday, 23 November 2013
10.30-11.30 Panel 4: Parallel Sessions
Panel 4a: Book Prizes
- Megan MacDonald, ‘Death and Prizes: Moroccan Francophone Literary Cultures: Reading from the Outside In’
- Alessandra Benedicty, ‘Fetishizing Poverty? Contemporary ‘Postcolonial’ Prize-Winning Fiction in French: Ananda Devi and Dany Laferrière’
Panel 4b: Manuscripts
- Rachel Douglas, ‘Genetic Criticism à la postcoloniale?’
- Paul R. Davis, ‘Alpha Yaya Diarra and Arts Fra-Den le Soudan’
11.30-12.00 Coffee/Tea
12.00-1.00 Panel 5: Parallel Sessions
Panel 5a: Globalisation of the Book Industry
- Ines Bugert, ‘Strategies of Globalizing Maghrebian Authorship: Kebir Ammi and his Work, Apulé, mon éditrice et moi’
- Audrey Small, ‘“Works Written in French Should be Taken to be Published in Paris: Towards a Fair Trade in Francophone Literature’
Panel 5b: Languages and the Book
- Eugène Tavares, ‘Littératures Africaines : Les anthologies en question’
- Anne Ouallet and Soufian Al Karjousli : Lecture postcoloniale de l’islam et des confréries à partir et au-delà du « Livre »’
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.30 Panel 6: Parallel Sessions
Panel 6a: Book Culture in Haiti
- Justin Izzo, ‘The Nation as Ethnographic Public: Jean Price-Mars’s Haiti (in Book Form)’
- Kate Hodgson, ‘The Cry of Freedom: Early Haitian Print Culture and Global Abolitionism’
Panel 6b: Paratexts
- Catherine Gilbert, ‘(Mis)Leading Paratexts? Framing Rwandan Women’s Testimonial Literature’
- Nicole Dunham, ‘A Book Within a Title; a Title Within a Book: Dany Laferrière’s Je suis un écrivain japonais’
3.30-4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00-5.00 Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture- Chair: Nicki Hitchcott
Lydie Moudileno, ‘Inventaire de nos bibliothèques postcoloniales’
5.00 Close of Conference
For registration details, please click here. The original call for papers is here.
