This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers many seminal questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write. Additionally, the volume’s essays seek to defin...

Il y a cinquante ans cette année paraissait le numéro spécial « La sociologie au Québec » sous la direction de Jean-Charles Falardeau. Deux questions présidaient à cette entreprise : « comment on fait des sociologues; ce qu’ont fait les sociologues » (Falardeau, 1974a, p. 133). Les sociologues du Québec de langue française furent invités à parler de sociologie : « celle qui les a inspirés; celle qu’ils ont faite; celle qu’ils ont voulu communiquer » (Ibid.). Pour l’occasion, environ 400 so...

Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the migration of Caribbeans and Africans to Paris during this era and, as Patrick Manning notes in the foreword, successfully shows how “black Parisians—in their daily labors, weekend celebrations, and periodic protests—opened the way to ‘decolonizing the Republic,’ advancing the respect f...

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors a...