Forthcoming issues of L’Esprit Créateur:

2014: Summer—Building the Louvre: Architectures of Politics and Art. Phillip Usher and Patrick Bray, Guest Eds. (in press)

This issue provides a new and vibrant history of the literary, cultural, and political significance of the Louvre, from its construction as a medieval defensive castle to its present incarnation as the world’s largest art museum of which a new satellite was recently founded in Abu Dhabi.

Fall—La Pensée littéraire / Thinking Literature. Oana Panaïté, Guest Ed. (in press)

Le numéro propose une réflexion sur la signification et les modalités de la pensée littéraire actuelle à travers des articles sur les humanités médicales, la pensée du partage et du quotidien, le « chagrin » de la théorie, l’énergie romanesque comme reprise d’autorité, et les écueils du paradigme narratif contemporain.

Winter—The Algerian War of Independence and its Legacy in Algeria, in France, and Beyond. Maya Boutaghou, Guest Ed. (in press)

This issue considers the legacy of the Algerian war of independence. The contributions address not only history but films and literature that discuss and rewrite the conflict as the turning point for a time beyond colonialism that could lead to a transnational understanding of History and its representations.