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The University of the West Indies and Guyana has recently added the logo of the University of Antwerp to the poster of the play Damas! to highlight the collaboration between all the parties involved. For more information on this play, please see our Activities and Events.
The Esprit Review: The Centenary of Léon-Gontran Damas
One hundred years after his birth Léon-Gontran Damas, one of the co-founders of the vastly influential Negritude movement, has been honored by the French Revue Esprit with an article on his life by Kathleen Gyssels. The article includes the poem "Cayenne 1927", which tells of the poets journey to the mainland. The article (in French) can be read by clicking here.
e-Karbe Interview with Kathleen Gyssels on Léon-Gontran Damas
Kathleen Gyssels was recently interviewed by e-Karbe, a website focusing on cultural events and news in the Caribbean. They spoke to her about poet and politician Léon-Gontran Damas, one of the founders of the Négritude movement, and how his literary work has thus far received less attention than the work of many of his contemporaries. The interview (in French) can be read by clicking here.
- Elsa Joubert's short story collection Melk undermines power structures: A review essay by Nina Botes
Nina Botes recently wrote a review essay for the Afrikaans online academic journal LitNet Akademies, wherein she discusses noted South African author Elsa Joubert's short story collection Melk. Melk was originally published in 1980, but has recently been republished. Botes considers the relevance of this postcolonial collection of short stories for current-day South Africa. Novelist Elsa Joubert is most famous for her 1978 novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, which recounts the challenges a black woman must face under the harsh racial restrictions of apartheid South Africa. The review essay of Melk (written in Afrikaans) can be read by clicking here.
- Discovering Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain: une grande
intellectuelle Haïtienne
Kathleen Gyssels recently worked with Fatoumata Seck, a first year Senegalese PhD student at the
department of French at Stanford University, to uncover more about Haitian intellectual and author, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain. Thanks to the diligence of these researchers and a number of other roleplayers from all over the globe, Comhair-Sylvain's archives have been acquired by Stanford University Libraries, and has been safe-guarded for future scholars. You can read more about this fascinating journey as told by Fatoumata Seck in the Stanford University Libraries Newsletter by clicking here.
- Présence africaine en Europe et au delà by Kathleen Gyssels and Bénédicte Ledent
Click on the image below to see a preview of Présence africaine en Europe et au delà, a recent book by our members Kathleen Gyssels and Bénédicte Ledent.
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