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The Breton Black-foot
The Breton Black-Foot, recounts how the child, Mathurin Gu�gan, leaves Brittany and moves to Paris. As an adult participant of the 1848 Parisian Revolution, he decides to settle in Algeria. His seafaring captain grandfather was cod fishing in the waters of Newfoundland; his Acadian grandmother, caught in the French and Indian War or Great Upheaval as a girl, had to return to France via England; Mathurin's soldiering father fought in the Napoleonic wars. The ascendants' varied experiences act as counterpoints to the lives of Mathurin's descendants, Pieds-Noirs or Black-Foot French, during the chaotic war of independence for Algeria (1954-1962.) The Breton Blackfoot, being both prequel and sequel, ends the trilogy of Paris In Paris Out. In book 1, The Reluctant Paris Rebel, Mathurin Gu�gan, experienced the 1848 revolution. Book 2, The Southbound French Settlers focused on Mathurin's voyage and his homesteading at the Castiglione colony, near Algiers. Book 3, The Breton Black-Foot evokes the good and bad times of mid-twentieth century Algiers, just before Moslems gained independence from France.
Southbound French Settlers
Southbound French Settlers, book 2, recounts how Mathurin Gu�gan, involved in the Paris 1848 Revolution, emigrates to the new French colony of Algeria. He and his family undertake the arduous river trip from Paris to Marseilles by barge under military escort. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea on a steamboat, the voyagers reach Algiers, travel through the wilderness and settle at the budding colony of Castiglione (1848-1852.) This historical novel is the continuing saga of The Reluctant Paris Rebel, book 1, as Mathurin and his friends participate in the Revolution of 1848.
Private Property
When Tiffany Murano’s parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the animals she knows and loves. Behind the walls of the Convent of the Slaughterhouse Ladies, Tiffany, whom readers met in Paule Constant’s award-winning first novel, Ouregano, leads a life cut off from the world, a life of immutable and ironically secular ritual. She finds solace only in visits to her grandmother’s nearby farm, which becomes a sanctuary, paradisial in its isolation. But it is only a matter of time before this magical world is threatened. Based loosely on Constant’s own experiences, Private Property is at once deeply moving and intellectually exacting, an exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters.
Call Me Carole
A young woman named Judith, aka Carol or Carole, depending on her age and moods, finds her true love during the Second World War, moves from the windy city of Chicago to the Pacific Northwest where she settles as a married woman in a house among fir trees to pursue her teaching career.Meanwhile her husband creates a small bamboo grove in their back garden before his health condition worsens. As in an impressionist painting, touches after touches, we discover Carole's surprising destiny and what each of the three men in her life brings to her personality. Instead of evoking 19th century France and its colonies as in her trilogy of 'The Reluctant Paris Rebel, ' 'Southbound French Settlers' and 'The Breton Black Foot, ' Claudine Fisher sets her latest novel in the U.S., from 1938, through WWII, the 1980s' and 1990s', to modern day. In 'Call me Carole' the heroine remains connected to France thanks to her grandmother's roots, her French language teaching at the university, her wild imaginings and personal idiosyncrasies
Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda
Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From survivor testimonies, to novels by African authors, to films such as Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, the arts of witnessing are varied, comprehensive, and compelling. Alexandre Dauge-Roth compares the specific potential and the limits of each medium to craft unique responses to the genocide and instill in us its haunting legacy. In the wake of genocide, urgent questions arise: How do survivors both claim their shared humanity and speak the radically personal and violent experience of their past? How do authors and filmmakers make inconceivable trauma accessible to a society that will always remain foreign to their experience? How are we transformed by the genocide through these various modes of listening, viewing, and reading?
The Reluctant Paris Rebel
The Reluctant Paris Rebel takes place a few years after the French Revolution of 1830 and the barricades of 1832, described in 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo. A guild crafstman, Mathurin Guegan, dreams of a better life as he toils on a Paris cathedral and on the new chateau of Alexandre Dumas, author of 'The Three Musketeers.' He soon finds love with Marie-Rose, the cook to Marie Duplessis, the lady of the night and socialite of 'La Traviata' fame. Drama ensues and the new couple finds the course of their lives changed forever with the onset of the 'other, ' often forgotten, 1848 Revolution."
Portrait of a Woman in White
France, 1940. Nazi forces march towards Paris. Lili Rosenswig's wealthy and eccentric family is ensconced in their country chateau with their sumptuous collection of arts and antiques. The beloved Matisse portrait of Lili's mother has been brought from their Paris salon for safety. It is the day before young lovers Lili and Paul are to be married that they are forced to flee and their fortunes change irrevocably. Lili and her family escape but Paul must stay behind to defend his country. In their struggle to adapt to changing circumstances in an unpredictable world, all are pushed to reinvent themselves. When top Nazi Hermann Göring loots their Matisse portrait, their story is intertwined with the fate of the painting. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN WHITE is a moving family saga, an obsessive search for lost love and lost art and how far we will go to survive.
Ouregano
OUREGANO is a scathing indictment of the self-absorbed consciousness responsible for individual and collective social failure in 1950s central Africa. At its heart is seven-year-old Tiffany Murano, who arrives with her parents at this fictional French colonial outpost. The novel threads through the minds of its diverse characters--French and African, young and old--in a bitter, sometimes hilariously funny, and ultimately achingly sad critique of colonialism.
Against the Postcolonial
Against the Postcolonial is at once a study of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled by France (Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, and Mali) and an interrogation of the relevance of postcolonial theory, criticism and studies to these writers. The authors are necessarily placed against the background of postcolonial studies, but since they have radically different backgrounds, histories, and careers, Serrano argues against the relevance of a homogenizing critical practice most interested in replicating itself.
Migrant Revolutions
Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial_and anti-globalization_politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor migration, diaspora, and revolution in works by Jacques Roumain, Marie Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat, and others. Author Valerie Kaussen argues that the sociocultural effects of U.S. imperialism have renewed and expanded the relevance of the universal political ideals that informed Haiti's eighteenth-century slave revolt and war of decolonization. Finally, Migrant Revolutions defines Haitian literary modernity as located at the forefront of the struggles against transnational empire and global colonialism.
