Colloquium II: Independence

Editor: Roger Celestin

Guest Co-Editors’ Introduction

Etienne Achille & François Massonnat

Research Articles

Accounting for the Haitian Independence Debt in Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey’s Combats

Christopher T. Bonner

Halka/Haiti: Performing the Dialogue Between Haitian and Polish Independences

Soraya Limare

“Indépendance Cha Cha,” From Kabasele to Baloji: Manifest of a Rising Kongo Youth

Alexis Finet

Déwé Gorodé’s Critical Music: Soundings in L’épave (2005) and Tâdo, Tâdo, wéé! (2012)

Alexander Claussen

Archiving the Algerian War: Propaganda and the Archives

Benjamin J. Sparks

Fêter la libération : la joie comme émotion politique

Catherine Brun

Roman de la brèche: Sabri Louatah’s 404 as a Separatist Dystopia and a Fiction of Independence

Maria Vendetti

No Future for Utopias? Confronting Imminent Civil Rights Issues in Contemporary French Novels

Simon Bréan & Guillaume Bridet

The End. Houellebecq’s “adieu” to the novel

Carol J. Murphy

Left by the Rains of Saint-John Perse

Abigail Culpepper

Robert Desnos Above the Influence

Andrew Patrick Clark