Axe Transculturalismes

Pauline Amy de la Bretèque (Université de Paris 8/VALE) : "Decolonising Nature and Ecopoetics of Creolization in Caribbean Women's Literature"

John McLeod (Leeds University) : "Writing Transcultural Adoption: Assimilation or Antagonism?"

Ritu Tyagi (Université de Pondicherry) : "Post-Indenture Indian Diaspora and Gender".

Following 1848 French the abolition of slavery more than 42,000 Indian indentured were brought to Guadeloupe as plantation labour. Till recently, the island had neglected memorializing its Indian heritage and there has not been any systematic study of its cultural and political manifestations, including its relationship to the prominent memorialization of slavery and to Guadeloupean […]

This paper focuses on the figure of the Palestinian rebel in three texts published since the Second Intifada (2000-2005). The Intifada highlighted to Palestinians that statehood had not only been made more difficult to achieve since the 1993 Oslo Accords, but also that liberation from Israeli occupation must precede state-building. This represents a reversal to […]

The connection between Vietnam and Pondicherry that flourished from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century is as yet completely unremarked upon within postcolonial studies and memory studies. During this period, people from French India settled in Vietnam to work as bureaucrats, merchants, soldiers, and service-providers. In course of twentieth-century decolonisation processes in Vietnam and French and British […]

L’urbanisation spectaculaire de l’Inde depuis les années 1990 se caractérise, entre autres, par la multiplication des quartiers informels (ou slums), symptômes des contradictions du développement économique du pays, et, plus largement, de la planète (si l'on s'en réfère à l'ouvrage de Mike Davis Planet of Slums). Cette intervention s’intéressera à la manière dont la littérature indienne anglophone […]

Conventional debates on the figure of the migrant – in its myriad iterations as the displaced, diasporic subject, exile, refugee – have tended to focus on the process of the movement itself, the political and economic conditions that led to such movement, the egregious conditions aroused by such movement, and the trials and tribulations of […]

Memories of the Future: Postcolonial Climate-Fiction Postcolonial societies are generally, though not exclusively, marked by the "environmentalism of the poor" (Martínez-Alier, J. 2002). While such historical struggles and conflicts around the unequal and uneven appropriation and distribution of the so-called "free gifts of nature" illuminate some fundamental aspects of modern and contemporary forms of colonialism […]

Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron (1962) and Robert Antoni’s As Flies to Whatless Boys (2013) both revolve around utopian schemes, set in Jamaica and Trinidad respectively. Wynter’s novel chronicles the establishment of a millenarian commune by Prophet Moses and his followers at the turn of the twentieth century, while Antoni’s narrative relates the tribulations […]

Cette présentation s’intègre dans le cadre d’un travail plus vaste consacré aux évolutions de la « pastorale coloniale » (Sarah Phillips Casteel 2013) face aux bouleversements de la crise climatique et à la critique des bénéfices de l’économie extractive qu’ont entreprise les humanités environnementales. A partir d’une étude de cas, celle du roman Greenwood de […]