The Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies is published online twice per annum. The Spring/Summer 2025 issue is available below. The back issues are freely accessible via our online archive.
15.1 online – Spring/Summer 2025 ISSN 2044-4109 (Online), including an array of book reviews and the second installment in our Miniseries on the BUMIDOM:
DON JOSEPH, “Assembling an Archive of Resistance in Péyi An Nou: Accommodation, Hospitality and the BUMIDOM”
This article argues for a reading of Jessica Oublié and Marie-Ange Rousseau’s graphic novel, Péyi An Nou (2017), as an ‘archive of resistance’, which refers to the rejection of French universalism to critique past and present neocolonial power structures. The graphic novel approaches the history of the BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer) which was a French state-sponsored, migration organisation established in 1963 during Charles de Gaulle’s presidency until it ceased operations in 1982. The organisation facilitated the movement of about 160,000 people from the Départements et régions d’outre-mer (DROM) to mainland France.
Contributions on any topic related to Francophone Postcolonial Studies are invited for inclusion in future issues. Authors should submit electronically a word file of their article, 4,000-10,000 words, in English or French to BFPS editor Sarah Arens (s.arens@liverpool.ac.uk). Articles should conform in presentation to the guidelines in the MHRA Stylebook, providing references in footnotes, rather than the author-date system. All articles submitted to the BFPS will undergo double-blind peer review by two scholars of international reputation. To facilitate the anonymity of the refereeing process, authors are asked that their manuscript (other than the title page) contains no clue as to their identity. Book reviews (between 600 and 1000 words in length) should be sent to BFPS book review editor Paola Sanges Ghetti (paola.sanges-ghetti@warwick.
Editor
Sarah Arens
E-mail: s.arens@liverpool.ac.uk
Book Reviews Editor
Paola Sanges Ghetti
E-mail: paola.sanges-ghetti@warwick.ac.uk
