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    [Review of the book] Sex, Sea, and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses, 1924–1948, by Jacqueline Couti
    Wimbush, A (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-10-12)
    In her fascinating new monograph, Jacqueline Couti examines how black writers from Guadeloupe and Martinique, writing between 1924 and 1948, both critiqued and also tapped into a set of colonial tropes about Caribbean subjects.
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    [Review of the book] From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, by Maria Tomlinson
    Wimbush, A (Project MUSE, 2022)
    Maria Tomlinson's compelling new book, From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, examines how menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause are represented in a range of contemporary fictional works by women writers from France, Algeria, and Mauritius.
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    Transgressing Literary Norms in Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes
    Wimbush, A ; Kačkutė, E ; Averis, K ; Mao, C (Brill, 2020-07-01)
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    Resistance and Rebellion in Gisèle Pineau’s Paroles de terre en larmes
    Wimbush, A ; Connell, L ; Gras, D (Lexington Books, 2022-10)
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    ‘L’Identité antillaise de Frantz Fanon, selon Raphaël Confiant’
    Wimbush, A (Presses universitaires des Antilles, 2021-01-04)
    This article will examine the dual Antillean-Algerian identity of Frantz Fanon, as imagined by Raphaël Confiant in L’Insurrection de l’âme : Frantz Fanon, vie et mort du guerrier-silex (2017). Confiant describes the text as an imagined autobiography of Fanon because it combines a third-person, factual account of Fanon’s career as a psychiatrist in Algeria with more personal reflections about his Antillean childhood, recounted from the perspective of the imagined ‘I’. In the text Confiant emphasizes Fanon’s role in the Antillean resistance, an underexplored episode of Fanon’s life which nevertheless was crucial in the formation of his anticolonial thought. The article will analyse the literary techniques Confiant uses to highlight Fanon’s great sacrifice, while also arguing that the text is a salient example of the concept of ‘nœuds de mémoire’ by Debarati Sanyal, Max Silverman and Michael Rothberg. The Caribbean and Algerian memories of Fanon’s life and work do not compete with each other; rather, they complement each other.
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    Madness, Isolation and the Female Condition in Gisele Pineau's Writing
    Wimbush, A (Liverpool University Press, 2022)
    This article examines themes of madness and mental illness in fictional and non-fictional writing by Guadeloupean author Gisèle Pineau. Madness is an important trope in French Caribbean literature that critiques the enduring legacies of colonization, slavery and forced displacement. It is a prevalent theme in Pineau’s work because her writing is inspired by her parallel career as a psychiatric nurse. The article explores madness from a gendered perspective in her short stories “Ombres créoles” (1988) and “Ta mission, Marny” (2009). Arguing that here, madness is a specifically Antillean condition that both erases the agency of the female protagonists and grants them power to resist, the article then examines how Pineau explores the theme from a metropolitan viewpoint in the autobiographically inspired Folie, aller simple: journée ordinaire d’une infirmière (2010). Through her writing, Pineau bears witness to the ordeals of Caribbean women haunted by the collective trauma of slavery and patriarchal power.
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    “And healthcare will be cured too”: transformations of winged phrases from Soviet films in modern Russian newspaper headings
    Kabiak, N (Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli / Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia Zagrebačka 30, 52100 Pula, Hrvatska, 2022-08-29)
    This paper examines the usage of “winged phrases” from Soviet cinema as they make their way from their place as film quotations into modern Russian – more specifically, into newspaper headings. The focus of this study is the process of the transformation of winged phrases in article headings within three contemporary Russian newspapers: “Комсомольская правда – Москва” (Komsomolʹs Truth – Moscow), “Известия” (News) and “Литературная газета” (Literary Gazette). The paper draws on analysis of 151 newspaper headings for the period from 1st January 2017 until 1st July 2018. An interpretation of transformed winged phrases embedded into newspaper headings is presented, drawing upon Lotman’s writings on cultural semiotics. It is argued that when winged phrases travel across time and across a “semiotic border” (Lotman) they undergo transformations from Soviet films into a contemporary context while retaining a dialogic connection with the past.
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    Using Categories to Assert Authority in Murrinhpatha-Speaking Children's Talk
    Davidson, L (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-02-15)
    Children, like speakers more generally, often use categories of person, place, and activity (e.g., doctor, school, bedtime) to frame and monitor interactions among themselves. This article explores the use of categories by a group of Murrinhpatha-speaking Aboriginal children in Wadeye, northern Australia, when attempting to assert authority. The creation and negotiation of power asymmetries are a common feature of children’s peer talk worldwide but analyzed here for the first time among speakers of a traditional Australian language. Analysis suggests that although there are similarities with children from other sociocultural/linguistic contexts, there are differences in these children’s choice of membership categories (e.g., husband, country) and how they deploy and react to them (e.g., by ambiguity and by silence respectively). Such differences highlight the connection between language, society, and the interactional resources available to speakers as well as reinforcing the merit of studying membership categorization in children’s talk. Data in Murrinhpatha with English translation.