Welcome to this (non-exhaustive) reading list of Francophone literature, films and Cambridge-based events, in celebration of Black History Month 2024. We hope you find it valuable. If you have any suggestions for other items to include, please email webadmin@mmll.cam.ac.uk.
Books
- Frantz Fanon. Peau noire, masques blancs; Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté; Alienation and Freedom.
- Edouard Glissant, Introduction à une poétique du Divers.
- Léopold Sédar Senghor. Liberté volumes; Chants d'ombre; Hosties noires.
- Aimé Césaire. Cahier d'un retour au pays natal.
- Léon-Gontran Damas. Pigments-Névralgies.
- Awa Thiam. La parole aux négresses and Continents noirs.
- Jeanne and Paulette Nardal. Beyond Négritude; Négritude Women.
- Pap NDiaye. La condition noire: Essai sur une minorité française.
- Léonora Miano. Afropea: Utopie post-occidentale et post-raciste
- Maboula Soumahoro. Le triangle et l'hexagone; Black is the Journey, Africana the Name.
- Pascal Blanchard. Le Paris noir.
Events
- The Suicide Archive - Doyle Calhoun, at Heffers Bookshop
- Leckhampton House, 22 October, 6pm - Doyle Calhoun
Secondary literature by Faculty members
- Doyle Calhoun. The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire; ‘Fanon's Lexical Intervention: Writing Blackness in Black Skin, White Masks’. Paragraph 43:2:159-178.
- Charles Forsdick. Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions.
- Hugues Azérad. ‘Edouard Glissant and the Test of Faulkner's Modernism’. In American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South; “Lire en relation : Édouard Glissant et Aimé Césaire à la démesure baroque de Lautréamont”, Dalhousie French Studies 113:111-12; ‘Poétique/politique de la césure dans la poésie d’Édouard Glissant’, L’Esprit créateur 55(1); 152-66.
- Jean Khalfa. ‘Frantz Fanon’, a special issue of Wasafiri (44); ‘Pour Frantz Fanon’, a special edition of Les Temps Modernes, No 635-636; Poetics of the Antilles: Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant.
- Laura McMahon. ‘Disordering Archives: Onyeka Igwe and Black Feminist Speculative Histories’, Screen 64(4).
- Sophie Marie Niang. ‘in defence of what’s there: notes on scavenging as methodology’, Feminist Review 136(1).
- Hugues Azérad, Loïc Céry (dir.s). Les Cahiers du Tout-Monde N°3: Les Pédagogies d’Édouard Glissant, + podcast.
- Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 28(3): Caribbean Literary Generations (see contributions by Prof Charles Forsdick and Prof Hugues Azérad).
- Laura McMahon. 'A poetics of opacity: disability, race and gender in Khady Sylla's Une fenêtre ouverte'. French Screen Studies.
Other secondary literature
- Dominic Thomas. Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism.
- Sara Johnson. Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World.
- Elsa Dorlin. La matrice de la race: Généalogie sexuelle et coloniale de la Nation française.
- Trica Keaton. #YouKnowYou'reBlackinFranceWhen: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness.
- Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel. Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire.
- Frédéric Ciriez, Romain Lamy. Frantz Fanon [graphic novel].
- James S. Williams. Critical Lives: Frantz Fanon.
- Felwine Sarr, Benedicte Savoy. Restituer le patrimoine africain.
- Nadia Yala Kisukidi. Dialogue Transatlantique; La Dissociation.
- Falmarès. Catalogue d'un exilé; Syli ô Guinée.
- Véronique Tadjo. Je remercie la nuit.
- Alain Mabanckou. Cette femme qui nous regarde: Angela Davis, l’Amérique et moi.
Films
- Sarah Maldoror (director)
- Hondo (director)
- Alice Diop (director)
- Mati Diop (director)
- Djibril Diop Mambéty (director)
- Safi Faye (director)
- Amandine Gay (director)
- Ousmane Sembene (director)
- Abderrahmane Sissako (director)
- Khady Sylla (director)
Further bibliography of e-resources available through Cambridge University Libraries
