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This article analyses the impact of France’s colonial heritage on French and Parisian public theatre. Theatrical programming corresponds to an imaginary still structured by a cultural and social construction of race that reflects the past of the “Grande Nation.” Three different plays by Ivorian dramatist Koffi Kwahulé are examined, each depicting situations of demotion experienced by French citizens of foreign origin. I argue that the way French public theatre is structured and administered today mirrors, to a certain extent, real situations of tension reflecting the disparities between the “centres” (symbols of power and homogeneity) and the “peripheries” (socio-economic and cultural spaces of relegation structured by a racial imaginary). I also analyse the concept of the border as a geographic, economic, and sociocultural paradigm, allowing us to understand, in the French and francophone contexts, what unites and divides – or more accurately, how francophone writers and French writers of foreign origin can still be condemned in the twenty-first century to a sort of exile from metropolitan Paris, the capital of a Jacobin state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of migration is a constant feature of contemporary Francophone literature. Published in 2016, Gaël Faye's novel Petit Pays is one of them and is questioning about an identity space populated by expatriation, deterritorialisation, alienation and loss of identity. We have analysed the novel from the aesthetic point of view as well, and we have concluded that Petit Pays falls under the category of Ionic novels at the Doric insertions. The critical and aesthetic model applied has been proposed by Nicolae Manolescu in this famous essay Noah's Ark, published in '80 of the last century [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A few days before we met in Paris, at the beginning of July 2017, I asked Jean Bessière to share his point of view on the relationship between francophonie and comparative literature, and on the stakes for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this interview, conducted by Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François, acclaimed Francophone writer Ananda Devi discusses the act of writing as “a way of shifting the building-blocks of the real world to create … an alternate world.” Referencing her own creative work and literary journey from Mauritius to Paris, she engages in a profound reflection on the power of literature in creating awareness about the multiple divides of our contemporary world. As she provides critical insights of la francophonie littéraire, Devi also addresses complex sites of belonging and unbelonging to reflect more broadly on the ethical position of the transnational writer, namely in the context of the uneven process of globalization that generates both hybridity and radicalization of identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduces the special issue on mobility across media in various areas of the Francophone world. Articles treat the notion of mobility as understood in film, literature, visual art and advertising and explore how genres as well as national traditions intersect. They explore a range of representations of mobility, such as the mobility between people, between genres, between languages, between artistic forms and between texts across historical periods. We show that the terminology regarding movement is constantly mobile itself, having undergone significant slippage in recent decades. Overall, this volume does not seek to arrest, but to add to, the understanding of the diverse modes of mobility present in the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until now postcolonial discourse and the subject of immigration have been accommodated in the main within literary Francophonie. The literature relating to immigration in France generally derived from the creations of writers from the former French colonies and even if they adopted French nationality, they would remain, however, French writers of immigration. But what is to be done when the writer is French by birth, has no direct connection with the condition of a colonized subject except perhaps by parental proxy and belongs to the postcolonial diaspora? This article is concerned with the realities of culture and identity that link suburban literature to postcolonial discourse. How does the periurban writer embody France in a postcolonial situation within his creations? These reflections lead us to propose the concept of Francophonie from within to justify the lack of symbolic boundaries between French and Francophone literatures by reference to productions from the suburbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article retrace les courants théoriques qui permettent de penser l’enfant en tant que sujet et donne la parole aux enfants au sujet de leur expérience scolaire. Dans ce contexte, des programmes d’éducation à la citoyenneté sont apparus, sans toutefois que l’exercice de la citoyenneté des élèves et leur prise de parole soient pris en compte et valorisés. Pour y remédier, il s’agit d’interroger des élèves au sujet de ce que représente pour eux une école accueillante. La méthodologie recourt à une approche inductive et les données ont été recueillies à partir de l’administration d’un questionnaire conçu pour des enfants, d’observation et d’entretiens semi-dirigés. Les résultats montrent l’incidence de la culture de l’école et de la forme scolaire sur l’exercice de la citoyenneté des élèves, sur les thèmes qu’ils abordent, les soucis et les priorités qui sont les leurs. Plus les enjeux d’installation et d’intégration sont prédominants, moins l’exercice de la citoyenneté inclut de possibilités délibératives quant au fonctionnement scolaire.

Il s’agit de montrer que la nouvelle d’une décennie 1990-2000 (française, belge, suisse, québécoise) n’occupe quasiment aucune place dans le panorama éditorial : on méconnaît la vitalité de sa production et on va jusqu’à remettre en cause le terme même de « nouvelle ».

This article is an overview on the migratory crisis which is putting strain on the stability of the Comoros islands, with particularly emphasis to the migratory flow to Mayotte. The « visa Balladur » is required for Comoros' citizens in order to move to Mayotte, a French territory; the introduction of this visa caused the number of illegal immigrant to rise sharply. The analysis of this migratory flow makes it possible studying in a transdisciplinary way several issues related to the current situation of the country, but also the role played by the Comoros archipelago in geostrategical and international dynamics. This study is structured into two main parts: a first part of quantitative data analysis, in order to put in context the socioeconomic situation of the Comoros, and a second one, characterized by primary sources and a qualitative approach based on Comoros citizens' interviews and experiences.

Préfacer le numéro 7 de Synergies Espagne consacré à la « Coopération pour le français en Espagne » est non seulement une belle occasion d’être associé à une publication de qualité mais également de partager avec ses lecteurs quelques réflexions sur la vitalité de notre langue en Espagne et leur présenter les actions que nous conduisons avec les partenaires institutionnels qui les soutiennent. Je remercie la revue Synergie Espagne de cette invitation.

Le propos de cet article est d’étudier les mutations anthropologiques générées par le passage à « la langue de l’autre ». En choisissant un corpus formé par les auteurs d’Europe médiane, notre article tente de montrer que ce passage n’est pas une simple traduction des œuvres mais consiste bien plus en une refonte identitaire des auteurs. Leur passage au français amène ces auteurs à se situer dans le courant de la littérature migrante, une littérature de l’entre-deux. Cette littérature oscillant entre un style français et un esprit d’Europe médiane conduit ces auteurs à produire des œuvres « absolument européennes ». Notre propos a pour but de poser les bases d’une différenciation entre cette francophonie et la francophonie dite « classique » afin d’ouvrir un dialogue entre celles-ci.

Un des fondateurs du mouvement littéraire de la Négritude et anticolonialiste résolu, député de la Martinique et maire de Fort-de France, Aimé Césaire fut avant tout un grand poète qui s’illustra également dans l’essai et au théàtre (La tragédie du roi Christophe, Une tempête). Dans tous ses écrits, mais surtout à travers le personnage shakespearien de Caliban, le poète-dramaturge donne la parole au colonisé occulté et opprimé. Le poème ici traduit, dédié à son ami sénégalais Alioune Diop, témoigne de l’immense talent poétique d’un grand apôtre de la Négritude.

Pushed by the desire to know, raised by the endurance of the seeker, the history of science was built in large part through the action of great travelers. Strewn with difficulties it is also littered with encounters. The history of the human sciences, wich places the centrality of the human at the heart of their concerns – and especially the history of music and musicology – cannot be separated from the notions of sharing and exchange. If the circulation of knowledge goes hand in hand with the circulation of beings – both effective and virtual through their works – and if we are allowed to think that part of the development of science and intellect is related to the development of human relations, we can therefore observe the construction of the international networks in a given domain through the bilaterality of a human relationship. In the Francophone sphere and in musicology, language has been a major asset for encounter, knowledge of the other, exchange and joint construction of musicological thought. In this article, we will circumscribe our reflection to a certain number of founding musicological exchanges. We are particularly interested in the university road of Mahmoud Guettat in France and in its impact on the construction of tunisian musicology especially in the academic plan through the foundation of the Higher Institute of Music of Tunis. We also refer to Mohamed Zinelabidine and to the human relations that allowed the construction of Franco-tunisian networks and partnerships in musicology. Going back in time, the meeting that took place at Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi Bou Saïd during the first half oh the 20th century allowed to unite on Tunisian soil, in a French expression and through music, the two shores of the Mediterranean by the collaboration of Tunisian, French, Syrian and Lebanese actors. Since human relationships are fundamentally reciprocal, the contribution of the other cannot be observed in a one-way vision. The exchange that the encounter involved, while building the musicology of the knowledge seeker also allowed the development of the knowledge smuggler. On both sides of the Mediterranean, actors from the south to the north got richer, enriched their native land and their host land; and vice versa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The project "Problemes négligés du système de santé au Niger" focusses on a core set of often-neglected issues that nevertheless have an overall negative impact on health system effectiveness in Niger. For example, poor quality maternal health services result from challenges related to the midwifery profession and from pressures from addressing the effects of illegal termination of pregnancy. Overall health system governance is undermined by weak management of human resources and health information systems as well as problems related to decentralisation of health care provision and dependence on external funding for health projects. LASDEL applies a rapid assessment and qualitative research approach to working with patients and health care professionals to identify the scale and characteristics of these problems. The project goal is to develop an evidence base to support tackling these neglected issues. Développer des recherches sur les « problèmes négligés » dans la gouvernance de la santé, et sur cette base contribuer à des réformes des systèmes de santé permettant une meilleure qualité des soins pour les populations vulnérables. "Develop research on "neglected problems" in the provision of health systems, and through this work, contribute to health system reforms, that provide better quality of care for vulnerable populations." As can be seen above, many of these issues relate to reproductive health and more generally to health issues of disadvantaged groups. Some issues are neglected for political or social reasons meaning that they are not recognised or acknowledged and in some cases are criminalised. Therefore there are profound issues of participant privacy, protection and even safety for this project. Data sharing therefore requires thoughtful anonymisation and selection. The project group is Francophone with limited English language knowledge and the researchers and the context is largely in French. In common with much of Francophone Africa there has been limited development of Open Access to research outputs or Open Research Data agendas at governmental or funder levels. Outside of Canada and France there has been limited development of infrastructure, systems or policy relating to data sharing in the global francophonie specifically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay explores the question of origins in Alain Mabanckou's critically acclaimed novel, Verre Cassé (2005). While it has been argued that Mabanckou's text falls in line with the littérature-monde paradigm and thus debunks the notion of Francophonie, I contend that it depicts the entire enterprise of origins as always already doomed to failure and proposes in its place a relational thought-model that surpasses the dialectical thought that grounds universalism and particularism alike. Thematically, Mabanckou portrays character quests for originality as absurd; on the level of narrative mode, he uses murky narrative positions and temporality to unhinge the authority of the singular speaking subject; finally, through the incorporation of intertextual references, he defies the very logic driving the notion of origins. Composing his text out of others' gone before, Mabanckou pushes diversity to a higher conceptual level; he appropriates and repurposes old fragments, joining them up in one relational space so that they might gain new meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]