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Amjambo Africa! (January 2022), Kathereen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Editorial ....................................6

Translation

French/Portuguese ...............8

Swahili ...................................9

Somali ..................................10

Kinyarwanda........................10

Spanish ................................11

Liberation Farms ....................12

Equity in education ................13

Cross-racial conversation ......13

Special feature....................15-18

History of Medieval Africa Contributed by USM student authors

Finance Advice for the New Year .... 19

Poetry ......................................20

Contributed by South Portland student poets

Legislative Updates Permanent Commission ....21

Priority bills for the 130th

session .................................21

Mental health: home begins in the body ..................................24

Columns ..................................27

Maine Equal Justice

ILAP

IntWork

Let’s Talk

New Voices ........................28/29

Zabrina Richards

Nsiona Nguizani

Gashi

Bénédicte Wonganombe

Rupal Ramesh Shah

Coco McCracken

Mayor Deqa Dhalac of …

Creole Sketches, Lafcadio Hearn, Charles Woodward Hutson

Zea E-Books Collection

New Orleans in 1878 was the most exotic and cosmopolitan city in North America. An international port, with more than 200,000 inhabitants, it was open to French, Spanish, Mexican, South American, and West Indian cultural influences, and home to a thriving population descended from free African Americans. It was also a battleground in the fight against yellow fever (malaria) and in the political upheavals that followed the end of Reconstruction. The continued influx of Anglo-Americans and the renewed ascendancy of white supremacists threatened to overwhelm the local blend of languages, races, and cultures that enlivened the unique Creole character of …

Sur Quel Pied Le Danser? Ideas For Using Feu! Chatterton In The French-Language Classroom, Brian Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

Included in this Dossier pédagogique are suggestions for using a wealth of activities encompassing the three modes of communication, and best-suited for students at the upperintermediate or higher levels. Students will use authentic resources to learn both about the French band, Feu! Chatterton, and analyze some of their recent songs.

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 99)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.

Mot D'Accueil Et D'Ouverture Du Colloque, Abbé Clément Aboudi Nola

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Letter from Rév. Père Clément Aboudi Nola, Vice-doyen de la Faculté de Sciences Juridique et Politiques at l’Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale.

Présence Francophone, Numéro 99

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Mongo Beti, Théoricien De La Décolonialité, Adama Samaké

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Decoloniality is a concept coined by Walter Mignolo to fight against the invasion of the euro-American imaginary in the rest of the world that Anibal Quijano calls coloniality. Thus designed by the Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality research group to answer the vast question raised by globalization to the universal consciousness ; questioning centered on the conditions for re-socialization and a new humanization, the theory of decoloniality is determined as a philosophy of liberation based on epistemic disobedience. It finds a favorable echo among many African novelist, particularly Mongo Beti whose writings are intended as a methodology of historical initiative which intends to analyze …

Index (N° 99)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Abstracts (N° 99)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Réunion: Haven Or Hostile Land?: A Translation Of A Complex Documentary In Pursuit Of Reclaiming Identity, Hannah Conner

French Honors Projects

In 2012, the documentary film La Réunion : terre d’asile ou terre hostile was first screened at the Comorian International Film Festival (CIFF). The film, directed by Comorian filmmaker Saïd-Ali Said Mohamed, explores the experiences of Comorians on the island of Réunion, a Department of France in the Indian Ocean. It not only discusses the complex, interwoven histories and identities of the Comoros and Réunion, but the film itself is part of a broader movement to reclaim the representation of Comorians. This project, a French to English subtitling of the film and an accompanying analysis, seeks to fully appreciate the …

Comment Raconter Autrement L’Expérience Migratoire ? Une Analyse Croisée De Trois Romans Francophones, Adele Mclees

French Honors Projects

Aujourd’hui, l’État et les médias français visent à réduire au silence les immigrés africains, ou bien visent à s’approprier leurs mots à d’autres fins. Néanmoins, le genre romanesque permet aux immigrés de prendre la parole, donnant un visage à la masse anonyme et menaçante des immigrés que montrent les médias français. Le ventre de l’Atlantique par Fatou Diome, Comment immigrer en France en 20 leçons par Luc Bassong et Debout-Payé par Gauz font justement cela. En analysant les représentations des subjectivités des immigrés-personnages, les performances des rôles attribués aux immigrés-personnages et les déconstructions des stéréotypes ethnographiques présentées dans ces trois …

Ecstasy, Confession, Image, And Silence In Buber, Bergman, And Godard, Karl E. Toepfer

Open Educational Resources

This essay discusses the contrasting attitudes toward ecstatic experience as described in Martin Buber's book Ekstatische Konfessionen (1909). Ingmar Bergman's film Persona (1966), and Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend (1967). The attitude toward ecstasy depends heavily on the use of language and confidence in language to represent ecstatic experience. Buber, Bergman. and Godard share little, if any, perception on the relation between language, speech, and ecstasy.

Resisting The Image: Heidi, Sheep And Swiss Trash, Jonathan Gosnell

French Studies: Faculty Publications

The novel Swiss Trash, written by Dunia Miralles in 2000, interrogates stereotypes around immigration and nationhood in contemporary francophone Switzerland, with the intention of turning some notions on their head and letting others fester, uncomfortably. The French-language text underscores the divisions, the startling differences present within a seemingly perfect “Heidiland.” Its English title hints at complex and often equivocal cultural denotations extant within the Helvetic Confederation. A simultaneous reading of Swiss Trash and Heidi, of familiar Swiss citizens and intrusive immigrants, offers, this article contends, revealing visions of a dismal present/future and an idealized past. Read alongside works …

Entry Nr. 025 Marguerite, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 019 Magdalene Beulah Brockden, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 180 Tomás Mandinga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 240 Vicente Bibí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 125 Francisco Alves De Souza, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 308 Malade, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog Of Published Accounts By Africans Enslaved In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. Fogleman and Hanserd catalog nearly five hundred discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each African, print histories of the complete or partial life story. Five Hundred African Voices an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and others wishing to study transatlantic slavery using African Voices.

Deux Histoires De Meurtres Et D’Intrigues : L’Étude Et L’Application Pratique Des Techniques Courantes De La Traduction Française, Joseph Kalmar

Senior Independent Study Theses

Cette thèse vise à examiner les techniques courantes de la traduction littéraire et leur application pratique dans les contextes du thème et de la version. Le chapitre méthodologique explique d’abord les concepts qui sous-tendent les cinq techniques principales que j’ai utilisées pendant mon travail : les unités de traduction, la modulation, la transposition, l’équivalence, et l’adaptation. Chaque partie de ce chapitre comprend des exemples concrets tirés de mes traductions afin de démontrer comment et pourquoi un traducteur choisirait de profiter de ces procédés dans certains contextes. Pour la version, j’ai traduit une vingtaine de pages de Seule en sa Demeure, …

Réimaginer Le Mouvement Postcolonial: Une Étude Du Motif Du Mouvement Comme Résistance Dans Les Œuvres D'Art Postcoloniales, Katherine Knox , '22

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

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Mongo Beti À Rouen, Odile Tobner

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Cet article retrace la vie de Mongo Beti, sa carrière de professeur à Rouen (France), son parcours d’écrivain, sa dénonciation de la répression politique au Cameroun, censurée en France.

This article traces the life of Mongo Beti, his career as a teacher in Rouen (France), his career as a writer, his denunciation of political repression in Cameroon, censored in France.

Statut De La Femme Dans Branle-Bas En Noir Et Blanc Et Perpétue Et L’Habitude Du Malheur : Son Assujettissement Est-Il Seulement Double ?, Chandra Feupeussi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article offers a reading of the status and image of women in the postcolonial context of Africa through Branle-bas en noir et blanc and Perpétue et l’habitude du malheur by iconoclastic writer Mongo Beti. The female figures of his novels allow him to decry the conditions in which women are forced to live, between colonial, patriarchal, matriarchal and religious subjugation. Mongo Beti wants to be realistic when he talks about the problems of Africa; using women as a metaphor, he paints an Africa plagued by multiple evils that require us to get busy to get it out of underdevelopment, …

Is France Having A Populist Moment?, Emma Gilmore

Honors Theses

The word populism is often thrown around in news media and academic scholarship, but there is a lack of understanding of what it actually means as a political theory. In France, the two presidential candidates that made it to the second round in 2017, Emmanuel Macron and Marine le Pen, were both called populist, despite having vastly different campaign strategies and messages. This study used a computer-based method to analyze Campaign books from 24 candidates beginning in 1981 that determined that Populist language is on the rise, but not as aggressively as news media suggests.

La Marianne Multiculturelle: Une Analyse Comparative De L’Appartenance Des Femmes Noires En France Dans Mariannes Noires Et Bande De Filles, Norika Saah , '22

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

Cet article explore la notion d’appartenance dans Mariannes Noires (2016) et Bande de Filles (2014), des films sur les femmes noires et leurs expériences vécues en France. En étudiant les façons dont les institutions françaises construisent une identité française, et donc un sentiment d’appartenance dans l’Hexagone, je démontrerai qu’il existe un désaccord entre l’identité française normative et la femme noire en France. L’objectif principal de cet article est d’examiner la façon dont Céline Sciamma, la réalisatrice de Bande de Filles, et Mame-Fatou Niang et Kaytie Nielsen, les réalisatrices de Mariannes Noires, soulignent cette divergence par les chronotopes pour …

Écoutez, Monde Blanc. Un Film De Julien Suaudeau, Julien Suaudeau

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

This screenplay raises the ghosts of the Atlantic. Set in one of the haunted places of French colonialism, the fortress where Toussaint Louverture was deported by Bonaparte and died in 1803, the film summons the voices of Afro-French and Francophone authors. They call out to us from deep in the darkness; we are jolted awake, prompted to remember: between 1642 and 1848, France enslaved 4 million people, 1.5 million captured in Africa and 2.5 million born as slaves in the colonies. Oblivion perpetuates the “White order”, by erasing its crimes behind la grandeur et le rayonnement de la France. Écoutez, …

Le Secret D’Une Pyramide : Diderot, La Double Doctrine Et L’Encyclopédie, Rudy Le Menthéour

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Entry Nr. 002 Jaun Roque, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 003 Anchico, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.