(**Most pdfs of my articles and book chapters can be accessed here: https://bwabrile.wordpress.com/publications/)
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Books
Upcoming
Latest Monograph:
Dangerous Creole Liaisons
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Book Review of Dangerous Creole Liaisons:
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The Page 99 Blog posts about Dangerous Creole Liaisons:
My Book, My Movie
The Page 99 Test
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Critical Edition:
---, ed. Maiotte (1896). By Jenny Manet. Paris: L’Harmattan, Autrement Mêmes, 2014.
---, ed. Discourses of Trans/National Identity in Caribbean Literature. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée CRCL/RCLC 38.1 (March 2011)
***Comptes rendus de lecture de Maïotte/Book Reviews of Maiotte***
“Hors de soi: Dissociation et réintégration corporelles dans C’est vole que je vole de la martiniquaise Nicole Cage-Florentiny,” Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016. 169-180
“La Doudou contre-attaque: Féminisme noir, sexualisation et doudouisme en question dans l’entre-deux-guerres,” Comment s’en sortir. Du côté obscur : Féminismes Noirs/From The Dark Side: Black Feminisms (2015): 111-39. (feminist peer-reviewed journal published in France).
“The Mythology of the Doudou: “Sexualizing Black Female Bodies, Constructing Culture in the French Caribbean, Provocation: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 131-43.
“Birthing Chaos: Two-Faced Women, Cultural Conflict and Betrayal in Créoliste Writings,”
Critical Perspectives on Conflict in Caribbean Societies of the Late 20th and Early 21stCenturies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 31-50
"Le Bourreau et la victime: Politiques du corps et des rapports sociaux des sexes dans l'œuvre de Gisèle Pineau." Nouvelles Études Francophones 27.2 (2013): 74-89.
"Migrations de corps meurtris et de rêves brisés : vision culturaliste de la nation dans Mamzelle Libellule et Morne Pichevin de Raphaël Confiant", Genre et migrations postcoloniales : lectures croisées de la norme, 2013, 69-84.
"Topographie de la masculinité abjecte: la maison et le corps féminin chez Tahar Ben Jelloun et Patrick Chamoiseau," Mémoires et imaginaires du Maghreb et de la Caraïbe, Paris : Edition Honoré Champion, 2013.
"Le chant du koké de Patrick Chamoiseau: Rapport des sexes, marquage phallique et politique de négociation culturelle," Interculturel Francophonies, 22: Tracées de Patrick Chamoiseau (nov.-déc). 2012: 47-64., Ed. Samia Kassab-Charfi, 238 pp. ISBN 978-88-95343-
“Sexual Edge in the Tropics: Colonization, Recolonization and Rewriting the Black Female Body in Raphaël Confiant’s Le Nègre et l’Amiral and Reverend Isaac Teale’s “Sable Venus: An Ode” (1764)”, Sargasso: Placing the Archipelago: Interconnections and Extensions. 2010-2011, I & II (2012).
“L’errance d’exil et le recadrage mémoriel dans Pélagie-la-Charrette d’Antonine Maillet et Chronique des sept misères de Patrick Chamoiseau.” Romance studies 29.2 (April 2011): 92–106.
“Seduction and Power: Battle of the Sexes in Ken Bugul’s Riwan ou Le chemin de sable, Calixthe Beyala’s Comment cuisiner son mari à l’africaine, and Mongo Beti’s Le
pauvre Christ de Bomba.” Emergent Perspectives on Ken Bugul. Ed. Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier and Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2009. 163-181.
“Tambour-Ka, Cyclones, and Awakenings of Body and Spirit in Pineau’s Macadam Dreams.” Mango Season Special Issue: Francophone Women Writer 1. 1 (April 2007): 67-83. Ed. Gerise Herndon et. al. London: Goldsmiths College Caribbean Centre.
“Au sommet du mât: érotisme et masculinité dans Le mât de cocagne de René Depestre.”
Cincinnati Romance Review 25 (2006): 45-63.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
**INVITED LECTURES**
“Dangerous Creole Liaisons: The Invention of Creole Women,” Transatlantic Pollination, Miami Book Fair organized by Miami Dade College, Nov 20 2016.
“Mange-moi (Eat Me): Masculine Tales of Fear and Desire”, Islands and Identities: Memories and trauma, conference organized by The South Atlantic Center of the Institute of the Americas, at Georgia State University, April 15-16, 2016.
“Circle of Rhythms: French Caribbean Dance, Resistance and Transcendence” Julia Cooper Lecture and Workshop. 21st Annual Black Women's Conference Leap for Joy, Lyric Theater, Lexington, April 24, 2015.
“Soirée Littéraire: Littérature et découvertes d'antan, Maïotte (1896) de Jenny Manet,” December 17, 2014, Bibliothèque Schoelcher.
“Conférence sur le roman-feuilleton Maïotte: retour 118 ans en arrière !,” December 14, 2014, at Le Conseil Général, Martinique.
“L’impureté du geste chez Césaire.” Colloque Césaire ENS 12 and 13 December 2013.
“Hip-Hop Kreyol: Identity, Diasporic Spaces and Rhythm of Empowerment in the French
Antilles.” Hip-Hop as Social and Political Empowerment. 11-14 Sept. 2013, 9am-6pm, Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, VolkswagenStiftung. Symposium reading.
**Papers**
“Am I My Sister’s Keeper?: Race, Class, Femininity and Gendered Diasporic Spaces in
Interwar Paris.” African Americans, ‘Race,’ and Diaspora. Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3. 13-15 June, 2013. International conference reading.
“A corps perdu et retrouvé: fragmentation, traces, et refoulement dans L’exil selon Julia et
L’espérance-macadam de Gisèle Pineau.” Traces, Fragments, Remains / Traces,
Fragments, Restes 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies. The Georgian Terrace, Atlanta, GA, 28-30 March, 2013. International colloquium reading.
“Paris de mes amours: Sexuality, Diasporic Spaces, and Destabilization of Exoticism à la
française in the Interwar Period.” Diasporas and Race. Wake Forest University, 25-27 Oct. 2012. Colloquium reading.
“A Feast for the Eyes: French Caribbean Femininity and Colonial Desire in Lafcadio Hearn’s
Writings.” 38th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 11-14 Oct., 2012. Colloquium reading.
“Le contrat sexuel dans L’espérance-Macadam de Gisèle Pineau: politiques d’appartenance.”
Caribbean Association Conference: ‘Unpacking Caribbean Citizenships: Rights, Participation and Belonging.’ Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, May 28-June 1, 2012. Conference reading.
“Crossing the Urban-Mangrove: Errancy and Mise-en-relation in Chronicle of the Seven
Sorrows.” 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International
Colloquium. Long Beach, California. 29-31 Mar. 2012. Colloquium reading.
“Bon appétit: A Masculine Tale of Desire, Resistance, and Fear in Raphael Confiant’s Mamzelle Dragonfly.” Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for
Thought, University of Kentucky, Feb. 2012. Symposium reading.