sx salon, a small axe literary platform, has rolled out issue #44: “La Terre Renversée: New Perspectives on Francophone Caribbean Literature.” Editor Rachel L. Mordecai introduces the issue:
sx salon 44, a bilingual issue on the richness of canonical and contemporary francophone Caribbean literature, opens with a round-robin of book reviews of recent scholarship in the field. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel reviews work by Kaiama L. Glover, Glover reviews work by Jacqueline Couti, Couti reviews work by Anny-Dominique Curtius, while Curtius reviews work by Joseph-Gabriel. The issue then moves into discussion essays. First, Nathan Dize reflects on the nuanced contributions of the Trinidadian J. Michael Dash as both a literary critic and translator of Édouard Glissant’s La lézarde (The Ripening). Dize’s contribution is followed by Corine Labridy’s expansive essay on the promising postcréolité, Afrofuturist turn in French Antillean literature. The section closes with a dynamic French-language conversation between Sara Florian and Martinican poet and novelist Nicole-Cage Florentiny.
The issue then turns to the creative writing of Daniel Maximin (L’Ile et une nuit) as Jason Frydman presents an excerpt from his forthcoming translation, entitled The Island and a Night. Stéphane Martelly’s French-language poems selected from her manuscript Le livre des morts (The Book of the Dead) follow Frydman’s translation. Finally, issue 44 ends with the English-language translation of Christophe Gros-Dubois’ short story “Barbeque, fille de la mangrove – le cycle des luttes” (“Barbecue, Daughter of the Mangrove – the Cycle of Struggles”) by Corine Labridy.
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sx salon, a small axe literary platform, has rolled out issue #44: “La Terre Renversée: New Perspectives on Francophone Caribbean Literature.” Editor Rachel L. Mordecai introduces the issue: sx salon 44, a bilingual issue on the richness of canonical and contemporary francophone Caribbean literature, opens with a round-robin of book reviews of recent scholarship in the field. Annette K.
