Contributors
- Contributors
Stéphanie Bérard is assistant professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Her research deals with francophone and creolo-phone Caribbean theater from Guadeloupe and Martinique. She is the author of Théâtres des Antilles: Traditions et scènes contemporaines (2009), and has published articles on the history of Caribbean theater, on the use of Creole and French, on oral tradition, on drum music and dance (gwoka), on the integration of rituals (carnival, Vodou) in Caribbean theater, and on Haitian cinema and literature. She is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Africultures on contemporary Caribbean theater and the National Theater l’Artchipel in Guadeloupe.
Dominique Brebion has been a consultant on visual art at the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Martinique (Ministry of Culture) since 1987. She holds a degree from the Ecole supérieure de journalisme (Paris) and did her doctoral studies on Aimé Césaire and Wifredo Lam. She organized Martinique’s participation in the São Paolo Biennial in 1994 and 1996, in the National Black Art Festival in Atlanta in 1996, and in numerous Caribbean exhibitions, including “Carib Art,” Netherlands Antilles (1992); “Carivista,” Barbados (1998); and “Migration in the Caribbean Diaspora,” University of Central Florida (2001). She has coordinated residencies in Martinique for artists such as Georges Rousse, François Bouillon, Alan Sonfist, Nils Udo, and Jean Clareboudt. She is a jury member for many inter-Caribbean biennials, and is a founding member of the southern Caribbean section of the Association internationale des critiques d’art (AICA–SC), which she has chaired since 2007. She founded the journal Arthème in 1999.
Celia M. Britton is professor of French and francophone literature at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely on French Caribbean literature and thought, particularly on the work of Edouard Glissant. Her books include Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance (1999); Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought (2002); and The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction (2008). She has also coedited an issue of Paragraph titled “Francophone Texts and Postcolonial Theory” (2001) and edited “France’s Colonies and the Second World War” (2007), a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur.
Alex Burke was born in Martinique and now lives and works in Paris. Most recently his work has been shown at the Tenth Havana Biennial (2009) and in the exhibitions “Kréyol Factory,” La Villette, Paris (2009); “Atlantide Caraïbes,” Martinique (2008); and “Infinite Island,” Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007). [End Page 186]
Patricia Donatien-Yssa holds a doctorate in anglophone studies and is maître de conférences at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique, where she specializes in Caribbean arts and literatures. In addition to twenty articles published in journals and edited collections, she is the author of L’exorcisme de la blès: Vaincre la souffrance dans “Autobiographie de ma mère” de Jamaica Kincaid (2007), for which she was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize by the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and is the editor of Images de soi dans les sociétés post-coloniales (2006) and Art et spiritualité dans la Caraïbe et les Amériques (2006).
Alex Dupuy is Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University, Middletown. He is the author of Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment since 1700 (1989), Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution (1997), and The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2007). He is currently writing a book on Thomas Jefferson and the Haitian Revolution.
Peter Hallward teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London. He is the author of Absolutely Postcolonial (2001), Badiou: A Subject to Truth (2003), Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (2006), and Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment (2007).
Valérie John studied plastic arts at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her work thematizes questions of place, wandering, and displacement. She has...
