Contributors
- Contributors
PASCALE BÉCEL, a native of France, is an assistant professor of French at Florida International University.
CHINOSOLE is an associate professor in Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University. She specializes in the literatures of the African Diaspora with an emphasis on autobiography and black feminist literature.
MARYSE CONDÉ was born in Guadeloupe. She is the author of several novels, including Hérémakhonon, Ségou: les Murailles de terre, Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem, La vie scèlérate, and Traversée de la mangrove. She is also author of La parole des femmes: essai sur de romancières de Antilles de langue française, La civilisation du bossale, and other studies of literature and culture.
MALAIKA FAVORITE is a full-time artist and writer. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
LEAH D. HEWITT is author of Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig and Maryse Condé and of numerous articles published in such periodicals as French Review, Modern Language Studies, SubStance, Callaloo, Romantic Review, and Yale French Studies. She is an associate professor of French at Amherst College.
BARBARA LEWIS teaches theater at City College and writing at New York University. Her work has appeared in Fiction, African American Review, Ms. Magazine, and The Kenyon Review.
CHRISTIANE P. MAKWARD teaches at Pennsylvania State University, where she offers courses in French literature and criticism. She has published extensively on French feminist theory and Francophone women writers.
ANTHEA MORRISON is a lecturer in French at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
LYDIE MOUDILENO is a candidate for the Ph. D. degree in French at the University of California at Berkeley.
H. ADLAI MURDOCH teaches at Wellesley College. His particular areas of scholarly interest are French literature and postcolonial studies, with a special interest in the novels of the French-speaking Caribbean. His articles have appeared in Callaloo, Yale French Studies, and Research in African Literatures.
DELPHINE PERRET, one of the guest-editors of this special issue of Callaloo, is an associate professor of French at San Francisco State University.
MIREILLE ROSELLO is author of Littérature et identité créole aux Antilles, L’in-différence chez Michel Tournier: “L’un de ces types est le frère jumeau de l’autre, lequel? and L’Humour noir selon André Breton: “Après avoir assassiné mon pauvre père.” She is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan.
MARIE-DENISE SHELTON, one of the guest-editors of this special issue of Callaloo, is Professor of French at Claremont McKenna College and Chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies of the Claremont Colleges. Her articles on French, African and Caribbean literature have appeared in critical anthologies and in such journals as French Review, Caribbean Review, Présence africaine, Présence Francophone, World Literature Today, and Callaloo. She is the author of a book on the Haitian novel.
ARLETTE SMITH is an associate professor of French, Emerita, at Temple University in Philadelphia. A specialist in 20th-century French literature, she also lectures and publishes on Francophone-African and Caribbean literatures.
MICHELLE SMITH, a graduate of Queens College, is a candidate for the Ph. D. degree in English at the University of Virginia.
ANN SMOCK is author of Double Dealing. She has translated the poetry of Samuel Wood and texts by M. Blanchot and Michel Leiris.
BETTINA SOESTWOHNER, a native of Germany, is a visiting professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
WANGARI WA NYATETU-WAIGWA was born in Nyeri, Kenya. She is author of The Liminal Novel: Studies in the Francophone African Novel of the 1950s, forthcoming from Peter Lang. She teaches at Weber State University in Utah.
