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DanGolembeski
Mayotte:Frances NewOverseasDepartment inthe IndianOcean
Yaw Oteng
Joseph GaRamakasKarmen Ge andFemaleSubjectivity inthe
AfricanUrbanLandscape
Mayotte (Maore), the easternmost islandin the Comoros
archipelago, took atremendous political leap in 2009 byvoting to
become, in 2011, Frances 101stdpartement. Many teachers of French
areunfamiliar with Mayotte and itsintegration into la Rpublique
franaise.The present article introduces readers tothe islands
geography and history,Mahorais society, and its
indigenouslanguages. The article concludes withsuggested resources
for includingMayotte in the classroom.
Filmed in Senegal in 2001, Karmen Gereinvents from the citys
margins anunyielding female presence, pits itagainst a more subdued
masculinity, andshakes up the cultural foundations of asociety
steeped in patriarchal validations.Karmens unprecedented
individuality isanalyzed alongside the differing attitudesof other
women to bring out thedynamics of female subjectivity in theAfrican
urban space. Taking theSenegalese cultural framework asemblematic
of the larger Africansociopolitical space, this essay examinesthe
urban female as the embodiment ofthe evolving realities of a
continentcaught between individual freedom(s)and its stifling
traditions.
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433 From the Editors Desk
435 In Memoriam
ARTICLES
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
CONTENTS
FILM
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Lisa L. Walters
Teaching theNation: ThePedagogicalStrategies ofMalikaMokeddems
Latranse desinsoumis
Sage Goellner
Algeria inFrance: ColettesLe manteau de spahi
Warren Motte
The Greeningof MarieNDiaye
Homi Bhabha and Henry Giroux believe that thenotion of pedagogy
is relevant to postcolonialliterature and to the question of
national (andpersonal) identity. They concur that pedagogy
isactually a political practice through whichknowledge, ideologies,
and values are deployedwithin unequal relations of power (Giroux).
In Latranse des insoumis, Malika Mokeddem develops apedagogy of
resistance, followed by one offorgiveness, as she considers the
diverse factions thathave subjugated her. Though her writing is
proof ofher being, such an existence is problematized by
herinability to affirm her sense of self.
Colettes oblique representations of Frances colonialproject in
Algeria are examined through her shortstory, Le manteau de spahi.
Tucked away in thefamilys closet, the spahis cape is a reminder of
theuse of Algerian troops in Frances wars. Thedestruction of the
soldiers cape represents theinstability of Frances colonial power
during theearly twentieth century. Le manteau de spahishows the
complex and recurring interpenetration ofNorth Africa in France at
the dawn of the twentiethcentury.
Among Marie NDiayes writings, Autoportrait en vert(2005)
constitutes an anomalous case by virtue of theproblematic status of
its subject. The person whosays I in this text does not pretend to
possess herstory; to the contrary, it escapes from her
continually.What is the dimension of autoportraiture in this
text?Who is the femme en vert who haunts the story?Autodiegesis is
a powerful principle of narrativeorganization, yet this text puts
that principledramatically on trial in order to propose a
differentkind of textuality, one that is largely reconfiguredwith
regard to literary convention.
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The author proposes the use of architecture asanother meansin
addition to cultural products likesongs and poemsof organically
integrating theteaching of culture into the study of language
andliterature. The author suggests that using the tool ofthe
virtual tour, available on many Web sites, helpsinstructors to
bring France closer to students byproviding more visual referents
in three dimensions.With three sample lesson plans, the
articledemonstrates the integration of architecture intobeginning
and intermediate language courses, aswell as into an upper-level
literature course.
Lobjectif est de sensibiliser les tudiants aux quatrevariantes
interrogatives les plus frquentes dufranais tout court et de les
aider les situer sur lecontinuum stylistique. Cette squence
pdagogiqueest ne de lobservation dune inadquation: alorsque des
tudes rcentes en sociolinguistiquevariationniste ont permis dtablir
linventaire et lafrquence dutilisation des formes interrogatives,
letraitement de linterrogation dans la plupart desgrammaires de
franais langue seconde ninclut quedeux structures. Les outils et
matriels propossintgrent pleinement les rsultats de la recherche
etdmontrent les potentialits des tudes linguistiqueset des films
comme outils dapprentissage.
Fatiha Benatsou est la premire prfte issue delimmigration
maghrbine en France. Dans Le rve deDjamila (2009), elle rend
hommage sa mre, sagrand-mre et aux autres femmes de la
premiregnration qui ont vcu dans un bidonville deSeine-Saint-Denis
dans les annes 1950. Au cours decet entretien, elle souligne
limportance quelleattribue lide de donner une voix des femmesqui
taient peu vues et connues par la populationmajoritaire, lducation
quelles ont lgue leursenfants et les problmes qui subsistent pour
lesenfants et les petits-enfants dimmigrs maghrbins.
Nicole C.Rudolph
Architecture asa Portal to theTeaching ofFrenchLanguage
andLiterature
Valrie Saugera
(Tu choisis)comment (est-ceque) (tu)choisis(-tu)?:Acquisition
des variantesinterrogatives
Leslie Kealhofer
Raconter leurhistoire, cestfaire entendreleurs voix: unentretien
avecFatihaBenatsou
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REVIEWS
LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM
546 ALLAIRE, SUZANNE, et MURIEL TENNE, Prsence de Lorand
Gaspar(Glenn W. Fetzer);
547 COUNTER, ANDREW J., Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French
Culture: Wealth,Knowledge, and the Family (Laurey Martin-Berg);
548 DEBRAUWERE-MILLER, NATHALIE, ed., Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict in theFrancophone World (Sarah E. Mosher);
549 tudes Rabelaisiennes, Tome L (Franois Rigolot);550 FRAISSE,
LUC, d., Tradition et modernit en littrature (Laurence M.
Porter);552 GAUVIN, LISE, d., Les littratures de langue franaise
lheure de la mondialisation
(Patrice J. Proulx);553 HAMMERSCHLAG, SARAH, The Figural Jew:
Politics and Identity in Postwar
French Thought (Karlis Racevskis);554 HINER, SUSAN, Accessories
to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-
Century France (John Anzalone);555 IBBETT, KATHERINE, The Style
of the State in French Theater, 16301660:
Neoclassicism and Government (Jeffrey N. Peters);556 KAVANAGH,
THOMAS M., Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and
the New Epicureanism (Philip Stewart);557 LAPOINTE,
MARTINE-EMMANUELLE, et LAURENT DEMANZE, d., Figures de
lhritier dans le roman contemporain (mile J. Talbot);558
LARROUX, GUY, et YVES REBOUL, d., Pierre Bergounioux (William
Cloonan);560 LEDDA, SYLVAIN, et FRANK LESTRINGANT, d., Musset: un
romantique n
classique (Mary Jane Cowles);561 LONGCHAMP, SBASTIEN, Anecdotes
sur la vie prive de Monsieur de Voltaire
(douard Langille);562 PRASAD, PRATIMA, Colonialism, Race, and
the French Romantic Imagination
(Annabelle M. Rea);563 REED, CHRISTOPHER, The Chrysanthme
Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame
Chrysanthme and Other Documents of French Japonisme (Barbara
Petrosky);564 ROBINSON, PHILIP, ed., Enlightenment and Narrative:
Essays in Honour of Richard
A. Francis by Colleagues and Friends (Christina Ionescu);565
ROMESTAING, ALAIN, Jean Giono: le corps luvre (Kathy Comfort);566
SALAN, FRANCK, Lautorit du discours: recherches sur le statut des
textes et la
circulation des ides dans lEurope des Lumires (Ivy Dyckman);568
SMEETS, MARC, d., J.-K. Huysmans chez lui (Sayeeda H. Mamoon).
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
569 BARD, CHRISTINE, Une histoire politique du pantalon (Samia
I. Spencer);570 CARRITHERS, DAVID, ed., Charles-Louis de Secondat,
Baron de Montesquieu
(Mary Helen Kashuba);571 COLLER, IAN, Arab France: Islam and the
Making of Modern France, 17981831
(Rosalie A. Vermette);572 DOSSE, FRANOIS, Pierre Nora: homo
historicus (Edward Ousselin);573 INGRAM, MARK, Rites of the
Republic: Citizens Theater and the Politics of Culture
in Southern France (Ann Williams);574 SAPORTA, ISABELLE, Le
livre noir de lagriculture (Ccile Hanania);576 VOGEL, LOUIS,
Luniversit, une chance pour la France (Homer Sutton);577 WILSON,
SARAH, The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations
(Franck Dalmas).
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CREATIVE WORKS
578 ALBOU, KARIN, La grande fte (Rabia Redouane);579 BACHI,
SALIM, Amours et aventures de Sindbad le Marin (Najib Redouane);580
BEAUCHEMIN, JEAN-FRANOIS, Le temps qui mest donn (Susan Petit);581
CHEN, YING, Espces (Stephanie Cox);583 COND, MARYSE, En attendant
la monte des eaux (Marion Geiger);584 CONFIANT, RAPHAL, La jarre
dor (Annie Bandy);585 COULON, CCILE, Mfiez-vous des enfants sages
(Yvette A. Young);586 DEUTSCH, XAVIER, Une belle histoire damour
qui finit bien (James P. Gilroy);587 DIOME, FATOU, Celles qui
attendent (Claire L. Dehon);588 DORMESSON, JEAN, Cest une chose
trange la fin que le monde
(Marie-Agns Sourieau);589 DOUARD, JULIE, Aprs lenfance (Nathalie
Degroult);590 DROUIN, PIERRE-MARC, Si la tendance se maintient
(Davida Brautman);591 FAYE, RIC, Nagasaki (Chris Reyns-Chikuma);592
FONTANEL, SOPHIE, Grandir (Eilene Hoft-March);593 FOREST, PHILIPPE,
Le sicle des nuages (William Cloonan);594 LAFERRIRE, DANY, Tout
bouge autour de moi (Jason Herbeck);595 LALUMIRE, JEAN-CLAUDE, Le
front russe (Karin Egloff);597 LAPEYRE, PATRICK, La vie est brve et
le dsir sans fin
(Michle Bacholle-Boskovic);598 LEDOUX, LUCIE, Un roman grec
(Ritt Deitz);599 MICHAUX, AGNS, Les sentiments (Nathalie G.
Cornelius);600 NIMIER, MARIE, Photo-photo (Jeanne-Sarah de
Larquier);601 QUIRINY, BERNARD, Les assoiffes (Dominique S.
Thvenin);602 TCHOUNGUI, LIZABETH, Bamako climax (Jane E.
Evans).
LINGUISTICS
603 BECKETT, MARGARET ., Gender Assignment and Word-final
Pronunciation inFrench: Two Semantic Systems (Christopher M.
Stewart);
604 BEECHING, KATE, NIGEL ARMSTRONG, and FRANOISE GADET,
eds.,Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French (Jeff
Tennant);
606 FLOREA, LIGIA STELA, CATHERINE FUCHS, et FRDRIQUE
MLANIE-BECQUET,Dictionnaire des verbes du franais actuel:
constructions, emplois, synonymes(A. Kate Miller);
607 GOSSELIN, LAURENT, Les modalits en franais: la validation
des reprsentations(Thomas J. Cox);
608 SANAKER, JOHN KRISTIAN, La rencontre des langues dans le
cinma francophone:Qubec, Afrique subsaharienne, FranceMaghreb
(Stacey Weber-Fve).
METHODS AND MATERIALS
609 LONSDALE, DERYLE, and YVON LE BRAS, A Frequency Dictionary
of French: CoreVocabulary for Learners (Randi L. Polk);
610 MESKILL, CARLA, and NATASHA ANTHONY, Teaching Languages
Online (BarryChametzky);
611 SISKIN, H. JAY, CHERYL L. KRUEGER, and MARYSE FAUVEL, Tches
dencre:French Composition, 3rd ed. (Elizabeth Bishop).
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FILM
612 BEAUVOIS, XAVIER, ral., Des hommes et des dieux (Michelle
Chilcoat);613 BOUCHAREB, RACHID, ral., Hors-la-loi (Michle
Chossat);614 MAI, JOSEPH, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Marie-Jo
Binet);615 MCLAUGHLIN, NOAH, French War Films and National Identity
(Stphane Pillet);617 Soixante-quatrime Festival de Cannes 2011: lre
de la peur (Jean Decock).
623 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
624 LIST OF EDITORS626 ANNOUNCEMENTS
627 ADVERTISINGAATF- Socit Honoraire de FranaisBeach Lloyd
Publishers, LLCEditions RodopiHamilton College Junior Year in
FranceJ-STORMadame Nelsons French Verb BookModern Language
AssociationNew York University in ParisSaul H RosenthalSPI Study
Programs InternationalUniversit de ToursWESType Publishing
Services, Inc.Yale University Press
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March 2012 (Volume 85.4)
PROFESSIONAL ISSUESThe Literature Problem in the Lyce: French
Education Debates Today (M. Martin
Guiney)
SOCIETY AND CULTUREEditing Toussaint Louvertures Memoir:
Representing Racial Difference (Arthur
F. Saint-Aubin)
LITERATURESocial Drama, Cultural Pragmatics, and Louis XIIIs
Performativity: La victoire du
Phbus (1617) (Michael Meere)Le rire de la mduse: le dessin dans
Nzid de Malika Mokeddem (Mary Cobb
Wittrock)Sartres and Oyonos Black Orpheus: Returning (to the
Question of) the Gaze in
Une vie de boy (Levilson C. Reis)
FOCUS ON THE CLASSROOMLes standards et le franais: une
intgration logique en sept tapes (Frdrique
Grim)Classroom Climate and Student-to-Student Interaction in the
Post-Secondary
French Classroom (Carolyn Gascoigne)
INTERVIEWEntretien avec Yamina Benguigui (Adela Lechintan)
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Grosvalet
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