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School Days
School Days (Chemin-d’Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau’s childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students’ speech. This domineering man is succeeded by an equally autocratic teacher, an Africanist and proponent of “Negritude.” Along the way we are also introduced to Big Bellybutton, the class scapegoat, whose tales of Creole heroes and heroines, magic, zombies, and fantastic animals provide a fertile contrast to the imported French fairy tales told in school. In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child’s early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a colonial school. School Days mixes understanding with laughter, knowledge with entertainment—in ways that will fascinate and delight readers of all ages.
Eastern Block Stories
The title Eastern Block Stories features dozens of articles and over 60 unique hand-picked images about mass housing estates in former communist states. This book aims to address the blind spots to take a closer look at the major challenges for post-socialist housing estates today and imagine what could be their future. Besides stories from Georgia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Germany unique photographic material which covers cases from more than ten countries is included. The major take of this book is to unveil the diversity of the Eastern blocks alive and the richness of their urban context besides a stigmatizing and alienating gaze. With contributions by Carola S. Neugebauer, Romea Muryń, Kuba Snopek, Dimitrij Zadorin, Lubov Davidkina, Nataliia Mysak, Gigi Shukakidze, Paulina Paga, Maria Melnikova, Aleksandra Katasonova, llyas Kulbarisov, David Sichinava, and Alexander Novikov.
Agora Mundo
Agora Mundo réunit 12 artistes emblématiques de l’art contemporain de l’Outre-mer.
Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
With the rise of grassroots initiatives in urban spaces across Eastern Europe and Eurasia in recent decades, Urban Activism in Eurasia approaches central questions: what are distinctive features and the dynamic of urban activism in contemporary post-Soviet cities? What are the strategies and practices of an urban civic engagement that evolves on a micro level and in larger scale processes? A variety of group and individuals claims to the city space and its development, finding their own ways to initiate local urban change. The volume challenges the prevailing simplistic view of weak, passive and scared citizens in Eastern European and Eurasian cities, which are often seen to be predominantly...
Antan D'enfance
Using the playful, orally inspired, and partially invented language for which he is renowned, Patrick Chamoiseau recalls the brilliant, magical universe of his early childhood in Martinique. At the center of this universe is his extraordinarily vigorous mother and her creative, pragmatic ways of coping with poverty and five children. As Chamoiseau presents these first impressions of an exceptional child growing up in a rich Creole culture, he also reflects in oblique but incisive ways on colonialism. He probes the boundary between reality and imagination, between the child?s awakening understanding and the adult?s memory of those earlier days.
Voyage crépusculaire
René Louise est diplômé de l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (section peinture). Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages publiés aux Éditions caribéennes, parmi lesquels : "Peinture et Sculpture en Martinique","La vannerie à la Martinique", "poterie et Céramique en Martinique" ou encore des pièces de théâtre telles "La table du diable" et " "trois voyages aux îles de canne à sucre", et enfin un recueil de poèmes intitulé "La rose et le cheval aux îles de lumière". René Louise est membre fondateur du groupe « fwomajé » (du nom de l'arbre aux racines particulièrement solides et profondes) : il s'agit de l'association de cinq plasticiens martiniquais qui...
Manifeste du Marronisme moderne
Au cours de notre enquête sur l'artisanat d'art dans la Caraïbe et les Guyanes, nous fûmes étonnés de découvrir qu'il subsistait des échanges entre Amérindiens et Nègres marrons, dans plusieurs domaines culturels tels que la poterie, la vannerie, l'architecture, etc ... Lors d'un voyage d'étude sur le Maroni, nous avons surpris des Amérindiens et des Bonis qui s'affairaient à la construction d'une pirogue avec une grande détermination et en toute fraternité. C'est en ces mêmes circonstances que nous sommes entrés en contact avec l'art des Nègres marrons des Guyanes. Cette forme d'expression est profondément moderne : elle se caractérise par des signes et des symboles grav...
Sociologie des arts et de la culture Caribéens
Si pour dépasser le statut de science molle et rendre compte du fonctionnement des organisations, des transformations des rapports sociaux, la sociologie a dû proposer des concepts et des méthodes. À d'autres occasions, elle a su montrer l'heuristique de la transgression disciplinaire dans l'analyse des oeuvres et des pratiques humaines. Prenant l'exemple de la sociologie des sciences, il est aisé de constater combien le croisement avec la sémiotique ou sémiologie a permis des avancées probantes dans la modélisation des actes d'énonciation qu'il s'agisse des discours visuels -articles, publicité, textes littéraires- ou de l'analyse des techniques de production de l'imagerie conte...
Mouvement de foule, phénomènes de groupe
Les hippies sont principalement des jeunes nés lors du « baby boom » (augmentation importante du taux de natalité)d’après-guerre. Ces derniers souhaitaient s'opposer à certaines normes et valeurs de la société occidentale, en contestant et refusant l'ordre établi, la société de consommation, le système capitaliste et le conformisme. Des communautés hippies se sont formées, urbaines ou rurales, et vivaient ainsi en marge de la société.
American Incognito
Jock Muir, a lone-wolf Scot, the eternal traveller in hope who never arrives, marries an innocent in Montana, concealing his other self as a pulp-fiction best-seller writing under a pen-name. But she accidentally finds novel sketches and mistakes them for murder contracts. Marriage crisis follows. Muir is a wanderer in search of his version of the American Dream. Ultimately he is semi-detached, happier with dreams than with fellow-men. Hollywood was where insincerity was dedicated lifestyle. Montana is where sincerity could be faked. The only relationship he cannot escape is with himself. Betrayals, infatuations, the marriage lottery, false accusations, deceitful masks people hide behind, are the themes of a kind of road novel roaming from New York to Hollywood to San Francisco to Montana.
