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Monday, September 27, 2021

International Journal of Francophone Studies 23.3-4 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Francophone Studies 23.3-4 is out now.

 

Special Issue: ‘Screening Ecosystems: Activism, Representation and Documentary Practice in Africa’

 

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-francophone-studies

 

Aims and Scope

 

The International Journal of Francophone Studies offers a critical preview for a new development in the understanding of ‘France outside France', with a thorough insight into the network of disciplinary issues affiliated with this study. The peer-reviewed journal complements the thriving area of scholarly interest in the French-speaking regions of the world, bringing a location of linguistic, cultural, historical and social dynamics within a single academic arena.

 

Issue 23.3-4

 

Introduction

 

Les Écosystèmes à l’écran: activisme, représentations et pratiques documentaires en Afrique et sa diaspora

SUZANNE CROSTA, SADA NIANG AND ALEXIE TCHEUYAP

 

Articles

 

From environmental degradation to the waste economy of postcolonial desire: Ecocritical footprints in Touki Bouki and Hyenas

EL HADJI DIOP

 

Chronique d’une écologie décoloniale dans C’est ma terre de Fabrice Bouckat

FRANÇOISE NAUDILLON

 

Land Rush, pratique documentaire et regard sur la complexité du réel

DANIELA RICCI

 

Filming Mother Nature’s slow death: Representational pitfalls in African ecodocumentaries

ALEXIE TCHEUYAP

 

Des désastres écologiques au rêve panafricain d’une Grande Muraille verte

SUZANNE CROSTA

 

Forum

 

L’impérialisme écologique ou la recolonisation par l’agriculture industrielle: Une lecture de La Banane de Franck Bieleu

ETIENNE-MARIE LASSI

 

Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind: A premonitory tale of intertwined subjectivities

SADA NIANG

 

Time and ecology in African cinema: Pumzi and Felix in Exile

KENNETH HARROW

 

Interviews

 

La Colère dans le vent: Entrevue avec Amina Weira

SADA NIANG

 

Se fier en toute liberté au réel: Entrevue avec Chloé Aïcha Boro

SADA NIANG AND SUZANNE CROSTA

 

Review Article

 

Afrofuture ecosystems

MARIE-PAULE MACDONALD AND SHEILA PETTY