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Paroles et silences chez Marie-Célie Agnant. L'oublieuse mémoire d'Haïti
Marie-Célie Agnant explore et brise les silences de l’histoire, celle des femmes, celle du racisme et de l’esclavage, celle des injustices et de l’impunité. Haïtienne, québécoise, canadienne et immigrante, latino-américaine, elle est représentative des lettres francophones du XXIe siècle par les influences culturelles multiples, métisses, qu’elle a reçues, par les thèmes qu’elle aborde et par la façon dont elle les approche. Douze auteurs d’Amérique, d’Europe et de l’Île Maurice posent sur son oeuvre des regards diversifiés et interrogent avec l’écrivaine diverses zones d’ombre dans l’histoire haïtienne et universelle. Ces études rendent compte de la c...
Les écritures noires du Canada
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore Black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the Black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including Austin Clarke, George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, Wayde Compton, and Esi Edugyan. Arguing that Black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Winfried Siemerling explores the powerful presence of Black Canadian history, slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the Black diaspora in the work of contemporary Black Canadian writers. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French.
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key institutions, including the African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank, the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Civil Service, the UN Peacebuilding Commission, the World Bank, and the International Criminal Court. The volume inclu...
Les Mots des mères
Longtemps, les hommes ont défini la maternité à leur manière : succédant aux prêtres, les philosophes, les médecins, les politiques ont prescrit des règles de conduite aux " filles d'Ève ". Les femmes n'avaient pas leur mot à dire, à l'exception des mieux nanties ou des plus combatives. Progressivement, l'instruction des filles s'est généralisée, les femmes ont osé revendiquer leurs droits. Puis, grâce aux progrès scientifiques, elles ont pu limiter leur fécondité, devenir mères selon leur volonté et non plus selon leur " nature ". Et en gagnant leur vie, en accédant à l'espace public, elles ont pris la parole de plus en plus librement. Que disent les femmes, qu'écriv...
The Sword of Judith
The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.
Art for the Nation
Exhibition includes approximately 2% of the acquisitions made during the 1990s.
Transnational French Studies
The contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitut...
The Infamous Rosalie
Lisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories told to her by her grandmother and godmother, including the horrific voyage aboard the infamous slave ship Rosalie, have become part of her own story, the one she tells in this haunting novel by the acclaimed Haitian writer Évelyne Trouillot. Inspired by the colonial tale of an African midwife who kept a cord of some seventy knots, each one marking a child she had killed at birth, the novel transports us back to Saint-Domingue, before it became Haiti. The year is 1750, and a rash of poisonings...
The Book of Emma
One of the biggest stumbling blocks we hit when setting out to make our dreams come true is appreciating what is going well. Most of us have an unfortunate tendency to dwell on the problems rather than on the good things in our lives ... and then we wonder why things just seem to keep getting worse instead of better. In The Power of Appreciation in Everyday Life, psychologist Noelle Nelson explains how you can achieve success in every area of your life through transforming your beliefs with appreciation.
