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Bibliographies
Subject Guide to Francophone Literature and Francophone Studies
NYU libraries' subject guide to Francophone literature; also lists resources for broader research in Francophone studies. Includes an annotated bibliography of reference sources in various categories: directories, literature dictionaries, biographical information, dissertations, periodicals, web and other electronic resources, etc.
016.84 B472 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft. Annual. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1956--.
Edited by Otto Klapp until 1985 and since by Astrid Klapp-Lehrmann, Bibliographie der Französischen Literaturwissenschaft is published annually and lists books, journal articles, essays in books, conference papers, and book reviews on all topics of French-language literature. Each volume includes, at the front, a complete list of acronyms and abbreviations (Sigles et Abreviations) and, at the back, two indices. Index Nominum lists the names of authors and the Index Rerum lists subjects (including authors). The bibliography proper is organized chronologically by period and begins with a section of Généralités and closes with one on "French Literature Outside of France."
016.84 B231b 1979
Bibliographie des auteurs africains de langue française. 4e édition. Etablie par Thérèse Barratte-Eno Belinga, Jacqueline Chauveau-Rabut, Mukala Kadima-Nazuji. Paris: F. Nathan, 1979.
Citations are arranged alphabetically by author under the country of the author's nationality. Includes indexes of authors, recordings, and publishing houses.
Literary Histories
840.9 J12f (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Jack, Belinda. Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. 305 pp.
Brief overviews of the histories of Francophone literatures in Europe and North America, the Creole Islands, North Africa and the Near East, and Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Includes a select bibliography and an index of authors, titles, places, and organizations.
840.8 L733 (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Joubert, Jean-Louis et al. Les littératures francophones depuis 1945. Paris: Bordas, 1986. 382
A history of Francophone literatures from 1945 to 1985, this volume offers a brief introduction to the use of the French language worldwide, particularly in literary works, then discusses modern Francophone literature in separate sections about the following areas: Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, the Creole islands (the French Caribbean, French Guyana, and Indian Ocean islands), the Mediterranean (the Maghreb and the near-East), and Europe and North America.
Literary Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
840.3 D5616 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le XXe siècle. Encyclopédies d'aujourd'hui. Paris: Librairie Générale française, 1998. 1170 p.
Over 1800 entries on 20th-century French-language authors, institutions (such as l'Académie française), regions, publishing houses, and journals. The entries on authors emphasize their main works and include a list of works with publication dates. Entries are arranged alphabetically.
840.3 D5614 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Mitterand, Henri, dir. Dictionnaire des oeuvres du XXe siècle: Littérature française et francophone. Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 1995. 621 p.
Includes entries for 1547 French-language works and 57 literary journals from 1901 to the date of publication, as well as 73 entries on literary movements and genres (e.g. Littérature engagée, le Nouveau Roman, le Roman policier, Littérature francophone des Antilles). All genres are represented: poetry, novels, theater, essays, pamphlets, etc. Arranged alphabetically, with indexes of authors and titles and a chronology of the 20th century that treats French and foreign politics, literature, science, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, cinema, and miscellaneous events of note.
840.3 D5611 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Demougin, J., ed. Dictionnaire de la littérature française et francophone. Paris: Larousse, 1987.
Excellent but succinct sketch of all types of authors, including their major works and dates of publication. Also includes entries for countries and regions which produce Francophone literature and for major works, characters, key literary terms, movements, and concepts, literary reviews and journals, as well as literary institutions such as academies and major prizes.
840.9 L7182 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Lib.)
Littérature française. Ed. by Claude Pichois. 16 vols. (Le moyen âge - 1970). Paris: Arthaud, 1968-1978.
Offers a "modern and complete interpretation" of French writing as well as African, Belgian, Canadian, Swiss, and others. This collection is large enough to include lesser-known or forgotten writers in addition to the "literary heavies." The first part of each volume presents the cultural life of the era, including political, economic, and artistic events. The second part considers the era's writing within this larger cultural context, and the third discusses the authors of the period. Each volume also includes biographical dictionaries, lengthy bibliographies, illustrations, and cultural, social, and literary timetables.
840.93 K253b (Modern Lang. & Ling. Reference)
Babel Guide to French Fiction in Translation. By Ray Keenoy, et al. London: Boulevard Books, 1996.
Over 100 reviews of representative works from France, Québec, Switzerland, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritius, and Haiti published and translated since 1950. There is no index; authors are listed alphabetically by region. The back of the book contains a database of fiction in French translated and/or distributed in the UK, since 1900, including authors from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, Haiti, West and North Africa, and Mauritius.
809.891724 En19 cop. 2 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Hawley, John C., ed. Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
This encyclopedia provides a "panoramic snapshot of the ongoing transformation" of world literatures. The volume includes alphabetically-arranged essays of varying lengths devoted to topics and individuals "central to the discussion of postcolonial studies," including Francophone literature and authors. The entries include brief bibliographies for further reading.
Anthologies
840.8 L7185 (Modern Lang. & Ling. Reserves)
Joubert, Jean-Louis, dir. Littérature francophone: Anthologie. Paris: Nathan, 1992. 448 pp.
A general anthology of French-language literature from the 16th through the 20th centuries. The text opens with a brief overview of the origins of the French language and how it spread to various regions around the world. At the head of each section, there are introductions to and chronologies of the century it represents. While the sections on the 16th through 19th centuries present mainly excerpts of texts written by French and European authors, the bulk of the volume is dedicated to 20th-century works and includes essays on the literatures of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, islands of the Indian Ocean, the Maghreb, the Near East, Asia and the Pacific, North America, Belgium and Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Excerpts of dozens of works from around the world follow, under sections entitled "La prise de la parole," "L'écriture du réel," "Modernités," "Voix de femmes," "Théâtres francophones," and "Poésie de toute la francophonie."
448.6421 L718 (Modern Lang. & Ling.)
Thompson, Peter S. Littérature moderne du monde francophone: Une anthologie. Chicago: National Textbook Company, 1997. 159 pages.
Intended as an introduction to modern Francophone literature for high school and college students at intermediate to advanced levels, this work offers 36 selections from various regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. The texts represent various genres (some in excerpted form, but all in the original words of the authors, which are often glossed in footnotes): poetry, novels, plays, short stories, and poems in prose. Well-known writers as well as newer, less famous writers are represented. Each text is accompanied by a biographical introduction of the author, pre-reading activities, comprehension exercises, and topics for discussion or composition. An "Au professeur" section assigns levels of difficulty to the selections and gives further suggestions for how to use the texts in class. Also includes a map of the Francophone world.
448.6421 V439c (Modern Lang. & Ling.)
Vary, Andrée and Claire Brouillet. Contes et légendes du monde francophone: A Collections of Tales from the French-Speaking World. Chicago: National Textbook Company, 1997. 114 pages. Black-and-white illustrations.
Sixteen tales and legends from Francophone countries around the world (Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, the Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Reunion Island, Mauritius, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Saint Barthelemy, Haiti, Louisiana, Quebec, Corsica, and Switzerland) have been retold here in an informal written style with simplified verb tenses for use in intermediate-level French classes. Each story is preceded by a brief introduction and pre-reading activities and followed by comprehension questions and in-class activities. Several words are glossed in footnotes and there is a list of vocabulary at the end of the book. Includes a bibliography of dozens of sources for Francophone legends.
847.1091 P7527 (Main Stacks)
Berranger, Marie-Paule, dir., with Danielle Deltel. Littératures francophones III: Poètes d'Outre-Mer.Cahiers RITM 17. Paris: Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes de l'Université de Paris X, 1996.
A series of essays and collection of poems that, together, help explain and demonstrate the use of French and Creole in selected 20th-century poetry from the Caribbean (by Monchoachi, Roger Parsemain, Georges Desportes, Claude Jean-Vincent, and Ernest Pépin), Reunion Island (by Boris Gamaleya and Jean-Claude Carpanin Marimoutou, and Africa (by Cristiane Rémion-Granel). Each poet's work is preceded by bio-bibliographical information. The volume includes a brief bibliography of anthologies of poetry from French Overseas Departments.
840.83 An862 (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Brahimi-Chapuis, Denise and Gabriel Belloc. Anthologie du roman maghrébin, négro-africain, antillais, et réunionnais d'expression française de 1945 à nos jours. [Paris] : CILF, 1986. 255 pp.
A thematically organized collection of texts published from 1945 to the mid 1980s with commentary on each of the works represented. Themes from works published between 1945 and 1962 include childhood, colonialism, "mixed"-race couples, the relationship between the colonized and the Western world, and political conflicts. Themes from the work published beginning in 1962 include independence and political revolution, women and couples, social problems, "other struggles," and national identity and a return to tradition. The nationality of each author is noted with the commentary on his or her work and there are bio-bibliographical notes on all the authors at the end of the book.
Authors
Biography and Geneaology Master Index UIUC
This online database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
840.3 D5612 2001 (Main Stacks)
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de, Daniel Couty, and Alain Rey, eds.Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française. Paris : Larousse, 2001. 2 vols. 2253 pp. total.
This revised, updated work includes all the French and Francophone authors from the 1987 Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française and focuses on them and their works, adding new information as applicable. The work contains thousands of detailed entries, arranged in alphabetical order. At the end of the second volume are lists of the members of the Académie française and the Académie Goncourt from the inceptions of these institutions, as well as lists of the French winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Femina, and other major awards for literature. There is also an index of nearly 14,000 works cited or discussed at length in the dictionary.
840.3 D5618 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Garcin, Jérôme, dir. Dictionnaire des écrivains contemporains de langue française par eux-mêmes. Paris: Mille et une nuits, 2004. 417 pp.
Includes approximately 350 biographical entries about 20th-century Francophone authors, written by these authors themselves. This edition includes about 100 new authors, added since the first edition published in 1988. The index makes it easy to find the entry for a particular author.
840.9 R543 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Hamon, Philippe and Denis Roger-Vasselin, dir. Le Robert des grands écrivains de langue française. Dictionnaires Le Robert, 2000. 1521 pp.
Contains approximately 150 biographical entries on French/Francophone authors. Each entry includes a critical introduction to the author's work as a whole, a chronological presentation of his or her life and work, a description of the author's style, detailed analysis of one or more specific texts, a selection of quotations from the author, and a bibliography. The volume concludes with indexes of proper names and titles.
840.9 M29d (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
Makward, Christiane P. and Madeleine Cottenet-Hage. Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française: De Marie de France à Marie NiDiaye. Paris: Karthala, 1996.
This work offers 200 analyses of Francophone women writers written by French and North American critics as well as around 900 bibliographies of authors written by the editors themselves. Authors from the 12th century through the 20th century and from all areas of the Francophone world are included. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically by author, from the 18th-19th century French memorialist the Duchess d'Abrantes and Lebanese-American U of I professor emerita Evelyne Accad to Algerian novelist Hafsa Zinai-Koudil and French poet, essayist, and translator Céline Zins. Only authors who have published at least two literary works (poetry, theater, novels, narrative fiction, or autobiography) have been included; entries vary greatly in length and detail.
Literary Theory
Free online from the University of Cadiz, this journal offers criticism on French-language literature.
840.9 F8493 (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Salhi, Kamal, ed. Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures: Critical Essays. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2003. 471 p.
This collection provides a variety of current critical approaches to the literatures of several Francophone regions: North Africa and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, North America, Europe, the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Ocean. Appendices offer summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures. There are also an extensive selected bibliography; an index of proper names, titles, regions, and terms; and notes on the contributors.
840.9 B4372f (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Beniamino, Michel. La Francophonie littéraire: Essai pour une théorie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. 462 p.
A study of linguistic and literary theory as it relates to the Francophone world. Discusses the history of Francophone literature, including its origins, its relationship to colonial writing, the choice of language used by authors, and literature as a reflection of national identity. Includes an index of proper names.
840.9 Id28 vol. 1 (Main Stacks)
Somdah, Marie-Ange, director.Identités postcoloniales et discours dans les cultures francophones.Vol 1. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2003. 160 p.
A collection of seven texts that present various perspectives on postcolonial identity in the Francophone world. These essays treat works from Mauritius, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and French Polynesia as examples of explorations of complex identities in the postcolonial era. The director of the work briefly describes the topic of each essay in her introduction to the volume; she is also the author of the final essay on questions of identity in Africa. Most of the essays are followed by short bibliographies (the other includes footnotes that cite sources). The book concludes with notes on its contributors.
840.9 J821e (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Jouanny, Robert. Espaces littéraires d'Afrique et d'Amérique (Tracées francophones 1). Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. 303 p.
A collection of essays by Robert Jouanny, a professor at the Sorbonne and the director of the Centre international d'Études francophones. The essays treat Francophone literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and the French Caribbean and focus on such well-known authors as Senghor, Eluard, Saint-John Perse, Fanon, Césaire, and Condé. Features, in particular, discussions of the work of immigrant poets living in New York and Paris as well as Haitian literature. Includes an introduction by B. Baritaud to the life and work of Jouanny and a selective bibliography.
840.9 M8653l (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Moura, Jean-Marc. Littératures francophones et théorie postcoloniale. Ecritures francophones. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999. 174 p.
Written by a professor of general and comparative literature, this text examines postcolonial theory from four different, complementary perspectives (literary history, linguistic analysis, cultural studies, and poetics) in order to determine its potential to deepen our understanding of Francophone literature. In his introduction, Moura explains that, while Francophone literatures have unique origins and diverse characteristics, postcolonial theory can help point out certain commonalities in the motivations and styles of authors from various Francophone cultures (pp. 2-3). He proceeds to discuss French as an international language and its relationships to Portuguese, Spanish, and English; the postcolonial Francophone literary corpus and procedures for analyzing it; the adaptations of the French language by Francophone authors; the study of postcolonial poetry; and cultural studies. Includes bibliographical references and an index of authors cited or mentioned in the text.>
809.93358 SA21C1994 (Modern Lang. & Ling.)
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
An influential work by this world-renowned literary and cultural critic, Culture and Imperialism discusses the relationships between imperial conquest, the cultures of the colonizers and the colonized, and the literature that reflects these interacting cultures. Upon publication, this seminal book was lauded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "[r]ough-and-ready scholarship from today's street fight in the humanities." Said focuses his discussion on the empires acquired by Britain, France, and the U.S.A., because he sees several parallels between the histories of these particular imperialist quests and believes that the idea of overseas rule has a certain "privileged status" in these three countries. He examines both Western imperialism and Third World nationalism and how they "feed off each other." He notes, however, that this dynamic is more complicated than a simple "binary opposition," as people's cultural identities are not static and individuals cannot always be clearly divided into groups of "us" and "them"("Introduction" pp. xxiii-xxiv). The text includes analyses of several works by authors living in colonized regions. This work is important reading for scholars interested in postcolonial studies, especially in Anglophone and Francophone regions.
325.3 C718 (Education Library)
Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader.New York : Columbia University Press, 1994.
Includes texts written between the 1950s and 1992 that represent varying positions on post-colonialism, "a range of approaches to the topics," "varying levels of complexity" -- in order to lend the book accessible to a wide group of readers -- and "a range of locations: metropolitan/overdeveloped world and colonial/developing world; academic/institutional and cultural/political." The text is divided into six thematic parts:"Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance," "Theorising the West," "Theorising Gender," "Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions," "Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity," and " Reading from Theory." Several well-known pioneers of post-colonial theory are represented, including Léopold Sédar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Aimé Césaire; their writings are complemented by those of contemporary theorists. The volume concludes with a ten-page bibliography and an index of places, critical movements, subjects, authors, and selected titles.
820.9 P268 (English Library)
Adam, Ian, and Helen Tiffin, eds.Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post Modernism. New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
The texts in this volume have been chosen and arranged in order to "characterise post-modernist and post-colonial discourses in relation to each other, and to chart their intersecting and diverging trajectories."An introduction by one of the co-editors, Helen Tiffin, provides an initial explanation of this dynamic:"Post-modernism is Europe's export to what it regards as 'margins.' By contrast, post-colonial writing [...] moves from colonised, formerly colonised, and neo-colonised areas - from African countries, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand - towards Europe, or more recently, towards the United States." (p. ix) Tiffin's introduction points out the connections between various essays in the work, which include criticisms of works by Aimé Césaire and fellow Caribbean writers Lamming and V. S. Naipaul, Merle Hodge, Salman Rushdie, and Jerzy Kosinsky. Although this workdiscusses Anglophone as well as Francophone literature, it is worthwhile for scholars of Francophone literature to consult this volume in order to gain a better understanding of modernism, post-modernism, and post-colonialism and their implications for the 21st century. Includes works cited following each essay, notes on the contributors (all of whom are teachers/professors and/or authors of books and articles on critical theory), and an index of authors and topics.
840.93 R6614 v. 1 (Main Stacks)
Centre d'études francophones Université Paris XIII. Le roman colonial. Itineraires et contacts de cultures, Vol. 7. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1987. 217 p.
The first of two issues of the Itineraires et contacts de cultures series to focus on French colonial novels, this volume consists of an introduction by Martine Mathieu, six articles, and three short "documents" related to this genre, which was in vogue between 1870 and the 1950s. As Mathieu notes, le roman colonial is generally considered a minor genre, and is often disparaged because of its blatant propagandizing on behalf of the colonizers. However, studying these novels does give us clues about the clashes between colonizing and colonized cultures and helps us better understanding the history of the French presence in the DOM-TOMs (départements et territoires d'outre-mer). The articles in this issue include discussions of novels by Pierre Loti, colonial writing in Algeria, and the assimilation of the "Other" in novels about Madagascar, as well as three different readings of one text from Reunion Island. The "documents" include excerpts of colonial writing from 1926, 1929, and 1931. The aim of this volume is to give scholars the opportunity to reconsider these dated primary texts from the new perspectives of the postcolonial era.
840.93 R6614 v. 2 (Main Stacks)
Université Paris-Nord Centre d'études littéraires francophones et comparées. Le roman colonial (suite). Actes du colloque des 10 et 11 septembre 1987. Itineraires et contacts de cultures, Vol. 12. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1990. 157 p.
These papers, collected from a conference on the "Roman colonial," treat French colonial novels by Jules Verne, Georges Simenon, Felix Couchoro, Léon Debertry, Marius and Ary Leblond, Victor Segalen, Marguerite Duras, and others. Regions represented in these novels include Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb, Central America, French Polynesia, the French West Indies, Reunion Island, India, and Indochina. Like the above work (Le roman colonial, Itineraires et contacts de cultures, Vol. 7), this volume is intended to show that rereading colonial novels from a postmodern, postcolonial perspective can teach us about how cultural identities were questioned and constructed in colonized areas and can help us understand conflicts and contradictions of which the original authors themselves may not have been fully aware.
320.12 G29212004 (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Barrat, Jacques, et Claudia Moisei. Géopolitique de la Francophonie: Un nouveau souffle? Paris: La documentation française, 2004.
This work examines the ever-changing role of the French language in culture, economics, and politics. While many lament that French is losing ground to English and Spanish, Barrat and Moisei maintain that the influence of French remains strong and discuss how organizations like l'Organisation de la Francophonie and l'Alliance française can continue to promote the use of French around the world.
447 W171f (Main Stacks)
Walter, Henriette. Le français d'ici, de là, de là-bas. [Paris] : JC Lattès, c1998. 416 pp. with black-and-white maps.
This study of the use of French in various regions invites readers on "a trip around the world," exploring the history of French and its divergent evolutions in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Uses historical and literary anecdotes, word plays, and word games to show how French has been adapted by various cultures throughout the centuries. Includes indexes of proper names, people, places, languages, and concepts; a glossary of words and expressions, which notes where these terms are used as well as standard French equivalents for them; and lists of the dozens of maps, word games, and highlighted (boxed) texts found throughout the book.
448.64 F844 (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Robillard, Didier de and Michel Beniamino, directors. Le français dans l'espace francophone: Description linguistique et sociolinguistique de la francophonie. 2 vols. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 1993.
A collection of essays from specialists in linguistics and sociolinguistics, this work is an exploration of what is meant by the notion of francophonie itself. Volume I includes sections on Francophonie in several regions worldwide (America, the Indian Ocean, Africa, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and Europe) as well as articles on linguistic theory, the appropriation of French as a second language, and Francophonie as it relates to literature. Volume II offers additional articles on Francophonie in Africa, America, the Pacific, and Europe, as well as articles on Francophonie in the Maghreb and India and discussions of the history and legal aspects of Francophonie, comparisons between the global uses of French, Spanish, and English, the demographics and identity issues of Francophone peoples, and linguistic communities. Includes indexes of concepts and of proper names.
447.9 C814f (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
Corne, Chris. From French to Creole: The Development of New Vernaculars in the French Colonial World. London: Univ. of Westminster Press, 1999. 263 pp. with a black-and-white map.
Examines the evolution of French Creole languages in New Caledonia, Réunion, Louisiana, the French Caribbean and French Guyana, Mauritius, and the Ivory Coast. Includes a bibliography and an index of people, places, and topics.
Maps & Facts
Découvrez la France dans le monde
Maps that show French Overseas Departments ("DOM"s) and Territories ("TOM"s), as well as other regions where French is spoken in Africa, America, and Europe.
French-Speaking Countries weblinks
An annotated list of links about Francophone countries worldwide. Includes maps, historical information, and information on travel and tourism.
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
Maps, articles, and facts on the 49 States and governments that are members of this Francophone organization, as well as information on a few other Francophone States.
440.9 An742006 (Mod. Lang. & Ling. Ref.)
L'Année francophone internationale 2006. Paris, Québec: CIDEF-AFI, 2005. 414 pp.
The 15th issue of L'Année francophone internationale, this edition offers current information and statistics on Francophone countries and regions in Europe, North America, the Caribbean and Guyana, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Near East, the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Also includes essays on themes such as important dates and figures in the history of francophonie, the status of French in the world, multilateral cooperation in French-language education, and a brief section on Léopold Sédar Senghor, upon the centennial of his birth. At the end of the volume are reports from various Francophone associations and contact information for several others.
History
909.0971244 Al24f (Main Stacks)
Aldrich, Robert and John Connell. France's Overseas Frontier: Départements et territoires d'outre-mer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 357 pp. with black-and-white maps.
The authors' aim was to offer "the first full-scale academic treatment" of France's overseas empire, the départements et territoires d'outre-mer (or DOM-TOMs, including the French West Indies; French Guyana; Réunion, Mayotte, and other islands of the Indian Ocean; the North American islands Saint-Pierre and Miquelon; several islands in the Pacific Ocean; and Antarctica), giving basic information on the "history, politics, and contemporary socioeconomic structure" of these regions. This is not an in-depth study, but rather an overview of these topics, as well as an examination of the DOM-TOMs "in a theoretical sense," in order to determine "whether the DOM-TOMs represent the 'failure' or the 'end' of French decolonisation or quite different paths of decolonisation from the more usual one towards independence." Includes a dozen maps, statistical tables, a bibliographical essay, a glossary of French and English terms and acronyms, and an index of individuals, places, and topics.
Websites
ClicNet: Pays et communautés francophones
Lists web resources on several Francophone countries and on Francophonie in general.
French @ Lehman, CUNY
Site maintained by Thomas C. Spear. Copyright 1996-2005. Lehman College, CUNY. Last accessed 10 Sept. 2005
A gateway to an impressive variety of online Francophone resources, offering a list of "best sites," information on upcoming conferences and colloquia, "fun" sites (comic strips, film, food, music, sports, etc.), electronic discussion lists, literature and libraries, museums and fine arts, Francophone news sites, search engines, and links to information about the following regions: Africa; Europe, including France; islands of the Caribbean, Haiti, Indian Ocean, and Pacific; Louisiana; and Canada. Also gives links to French-language associations, bookstores, libraries, theater, and more in New York City
Les grandes dates de la Francophonie
Traces milestones in Francophone history chronologically from 1880 to 2001.
Ile en ile
Linked from French @ Lehman, CUNY. Site maintained by Thomas C. Spear. Copyright 1998-2005. Lehman College, CUNY. Last accessed 10 Sept. 2005.
A rich resource on the Francophone islands of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific, these pages offer biographical information on authors; bibliographies; online texts; audio and video clips; a chronology of historical events and literary developments in the Caribbean from pre-Columbian times through the 20th century; and links to Francophone publishing houses, bookstores, press, and media.
Online link to Francophone radio and TV news.
