Claire Parfait
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Parfait |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Parfait |
| SIGNATURE | PARFAIT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sorbonne Université |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christen Bryson, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Favian Mostura (dirs), Pour une société meilleure ? La littérature prescriptive aux Etats-Unis, entre mise en conformité et approche émancipatrice
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain. William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques: Lyon, ENS Éditions / Institut d’histoire du livre, 2023, 290 p…
Le rôle déterminant des agents littéraires dans la circulation transatlantique des textes est souvent ignoré des chercheurs, ainsi que le rappelle Jean-Yves Mollier dans sa belle préface à l’ouvrage. L’excellente monographie de Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Professeure à Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, constitue un apport important dans ce domaine. Après Cécile Cottenet, qui s’était intéressée à l’agence Hoffman dans Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Bo…
Where are the names of our illustrious ones? » . La construction d’un panthéon africain-américain, années 1820-guerre de Sécession
Nineteenth-century African American historians believed in the power of history to change minds, fight racial prejudice, make African Americans proud of their past and address their current condition. This history with an agenda relied in part on collective biographies, i.e. biographical sketches of great men and (a few) women. This essay will examine the way this pantheon was constructed in the early African American press as well as the first b…
Black History and African American Studies in France: A Critical Survey
This essay, written by three French scholars who specialize in African American history, provides a tentative assessment of African American studies in France. Starting with a survey of the field, it goes on to raise issues specific to the French context. While French scholars have tended to focus on the periods of the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement, they have until recently paid little attention to the history of US slavery, pa…
W.E.B. Du Bois, Nicolas Martin‐Breteau (traduction, introduction et appareil critique), Les Noirs de Philadelphie. Une étude sociale [The Philadelphia Negro. A Social Study, 1899]
Les travaux du grand historien, sociologue, crivain et militant africain-amricain W.E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) sont longtemps rests mconnus en France, l'exception de son ouvrage le plus rdit aux tats-Unis, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), qui introduit notamment la notion de double conscience des Africains-Amricains, dchirs entre deux identits, amricaine et africaine 1 . mes noires est publi en 1959 par la maison d'dition Prsence Africaine dans une…
Les universités états-uniennes et les réparations liées à l’esclavage: Le cas de Georgetown University
Précédé d’un court chapeau introductif, l’entretien avec Adam Rothman, professeur d’histoire à l’université de Georgetown, à Washington, D.C., retrace le processus entamé par l’université afin d’explorer les liens de l’institution avec l’esclavage et d’envisager les formes de réparations possibles
Les marges créatrices: Intellectuel.le.s afro-descendant.e.s et indigènes aux Amériques, XIXe-XXe siècle
Ce numéro de la revue IdeAs est né d’un atelier organisé au Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques en 2019 et intitulé « Les marges créatrices : Émergence des intellectuel.le.s noir.e.s et métis.se.s aux Amériques (xixe-xxe) ». L’atelier lui-même s’inscrivait dans le prolongement d’un premier travail sur le pouvoir créateur des marges, travail effectué dans le cadre d’un appel à projets de Sorbonne Paris Cité, « Écrire l’histoire depuis les marges :…
Un-sung heroes of Afro-American historiography: The Case of Joel Augustus Rogers
Joel Augustus Rogers, an African American journalist and self-taught historian born in Jamaica, produced an impressive number of articles in various papers as well as several books. After he died in 1966, his name and works fell into oblivion, which explains why in 1975, historian W. Burghardt Turner listed Rogers among the “un-sung heroes of Afro-American historiography.” Thanks to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and a handful of other scholars, Rogers h…
Creative margins: Afro-descendant and indigenous intellectuals in the Americas of the 19th and 20
This issue of IdeAs derives from a workshop entitled “The emergence of Black and mixed race intellectuals in the Americas (19th and 20th centuries)”, that took place as part of the 2019 Institut des Amériques congress. This workshop was itself an extension of previous work on the creative power of margins carried out as the result of a call for projects launched by Paris Sorbonne Cité university under the title “Writing history from the margins: …
Los márgenes creativos: Intelectuales afrodescendientes e indígenas en las Américas de los siglos XIX y XX
El presente número de la revista IdeAs nació a raíz de un taller organizado durante el Congreso del Instituto de las Américas de 2019 que llevaba por título «Los márgenes creativos: emergencia de intelectuales negros/as y mestizos/as en las Américas de los siglos xixy xx». El taller en cuestión se organizó como continuación de un primer trabajo sobre el poder creador en los márgenes, llevado a cabo en el marco de una convocatoria de proyectos de …
As margens criativas: Intelectuais afro-descendentes e indígenas nas Américas, séculos XIX e XX
Este número da revista IdeAs teve origem em um ateliê organizado em 2019 no âmbito do Congresso do Instituto das Américas intitulado « As margens criativas: a emergência de intelectuais negro/a/s e mestiço/a/s nas Américas (séculos XIX-XX) ». O ateliê representava uma continuação de um primeiro trabalho sobre o poder criativo das margens, efetuado no quadro de uma chamada para projetos da Sorbonne Paris Cité: « Escrever a história a partir das ma…
Anne Ollivier-Mellios (1964-2016)
Undoing Slavery: American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)
Détruire l’esclavage. Perspectives transnationales sur l’abolitionnisme américain (1776-1865) est un recueil de sept essais rédigés par des spécialistes français de l’abolition de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. Les auteurs placent l’abolitionnisme américain dans un contexte transnational et montrent comment des esclaves fuyant au Canada, des Noirs libres émigrant à Haïti et des activistes se retrouvant dans un salon parisien ont influencé, chacun à …
Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom
International audience
From One Crisis to the Other: History and Literature in The Crisis from 1910 to the Early 1920s
This essay investigates the role of literature and the links between literature, news-reporting, and history in the NAACP magazine The Crisis between 1910 and the early 1920s. We do not study literature per se and do not provide an analysis of the literary style, nor do we assess the literariness of the short stories and poems printed in the 1910s. Rather, we examine the place accorded literature in the Crisis and its role in relation to the rest…
Rewriting History: The Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Rewriting HistoryThe Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America (1935) Claire Parfait (bio) For African American historians of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the goal of writing history was as evident as the stakes were great. Amateur, and later professional, historians dedicated themselves to the proposition of writing African American history into mainstream American history, to instilling pride i…
Book History and African American Studies
In the fifty years that have elapsed since the publication of Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin’s L’Apparition du livre, the field of book history has expanded tremendously, on both sides of the Atlantic. As defined by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), “The history of the book is not only about books per se: broadly speaking, it concerns the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print, inc…
Rewriting History: The Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Rewriting HistoryThe Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America (1935) Claire Parfait (bio) For African American historians of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the goal of writing history was as evident as the stakes were great. Amateur, and later professional, historians dedicated themselves to the proposition of writing African American history into mainstream American history, to instilling pride i…
Creative margins: Afro-descendant and indigenous intellectuals in the Americas of the 19th and 20
This issue of IdeAs derives from a workshop entitled “The emergence of Black and mixed race intellectuals in the Americas (19th and 20th centuries)”, that took place as part of the 2019 Institut des Amériques congress. This workshop was itself an extension of previous work on the creative power of margins carried out as the result of a call for projects launched by Paris Sorbonne Cité university under the title “Writing history from the margins: …
From One Crisis to the Other: History and Literature in The Crisis from 1910 to the Early 1920s
This essay investigates the role of literature and the links between literature, news-reporting, and history in the NAACP magazine The Crisis between 1910 and the early 1920s. We do not study literature per se and do not provide an analysis of the literary style, nor do we assess the literariness of the short stories and poems printed in the 1910s. Rather, we examine the place accorded literature in the Crisis and its role in relation to the rest…
Rewriting History: The Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Rewriting HistoryThe Publication of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America (1935) Claire Parfait (bio) For African American historians of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the goal of writing history was as evident as the stakes were great. Amateur, and later professional, historians dedicated themselves to the proposition of writing African American history into mainstream American history, to instilling pride i…
Book History and African American Studies
In the fifty years that have elapsed since the publication of Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin’s L’Apparition du livre, the field of book history has expanded tremendously, on both sides of the Atlantic. As defined by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), “The history of the book is not only about books per se: broadly speaking, it concerns the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print, inc…
Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom
International audience
From One Crisis to the Other: History and Literature in The Crisis from 1910 to the Early 1920s
This essay investigates the role of literature and the links between literature, news-reporting, and history in the NAACP magazine The Crisis between 1910 and the early 1920s. We do not study literature per se and do not provide an analysis of the literary style, nor do we assess the literariness of the short stories and poems printed in the 1910s. Rather, we examine the place accorded literature in the Crisis and its role in relation to the rest…
Anne Ollivier-Mellios (1964-2016)
Undoing Slavery: American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)
Détruire l’esclavage. Perspectives transnationales sur l’abolitionnisme américain (1776-1865) est un recueil de sept essais rédigés par des spécialistes français de l’abolition de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. Les auteurs placent l’abolitionnisme américain dans un contexte transnational et montrent comment des esclaves fuyant au Canada, des Noirs libres émigrant à Haïti et des activistes se retrouvant dans un salon parisien ont influencé, chacun à …
Les marges créatrices: Intellectuel.le.s afro-descendant.e.s et indigènes aux Amériques, XIXe-XXe siècle
Ce numéro de la revue IdeAs est né d’un atelier organisé au Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques en 2019 et intitulé « Les marges créatrices : Émergence des intellectuel.le.s noir.e.s et métis.se.s aux Amériques (xixe-xxe) ». L’atelier lui-même s’inscrivait dans le prolongement d’un premier travail sur le pouvoir créateur des marges, travail effectué dans le cadre d’un appel à projets de Sorbonne Paris Cité, « Écrire l’histoire depuis les marges :…
Un-sung heroes of Afro-American historiography: The Case of Joel Augustus Rogers
Joel Augustus Rogers, an African American journalist and self-taught historian born in Jamaica, produced an impressive number of articles in various papers as well as several books. After he died in 1966, his name and works fell into oblivion, which explains why in 1975, historian W. Burghardt Turner listed Rogers among the “un-sung heroes of Afro-American historiography.” Thanks to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and a handful of other scholars, Rogers h…
Creative margins: Afro-descendant and indigenous intellectuals in the Americas of the 19th and 20
This issue of IdeAs derives from a workshop entitled “The emergence of Black and mixed race intellectuals in the Americas (19th and 20th centuries)”, that took place as part of the 2019 Institut des Amériques congress. This workshop was itself an extension of previous work on the creative power of margins carried out as the result of a call for projects launched by Paris Sorbonne Cité university under the title “Writing history from the margins: …
Los márgenes creativos: Intelectuales afrodescendientes e indígenas en las Américas de los siglos XIX y XX
El presente número de la revista IdeAs nació a raíz de un taller organizado durante el Congreso del Instituto de las Américas de 2019 que llevaba por título «Los márgenes creativos: emergencia de intelectuales negros/as y mestizos/as en las Américas de los siglos xixy xx». El taller en cuestión se organizó como continuación de un primer trabajo sobre el poder creador en los márgenes, llevado a cabo en el marco de una convocatoria de proyectos de …
As margens criativas: Intelectuais afro-descendentes e indígenas nas Américas, séculos XIX e XX
Este número da revista IdeAs teve origem em um ateliê organizado em 2019 no âmbito do Congresso do Instituto das Américas intitulado « As margens criativas: a emergência de intelectuais negro/a/s e mestiço/a/s nas Américas (séculos XIX-XX) ». O ateliê representava uma continuação de um primeiro trabalho sobre o poder criativo das margens, efetuado no quadro de uma chamada para projetos da Sorbonne Paris Cité: « Escrever a história a partir das ma…
Les universités états-uniennes et les réparations liées à l’esclavage: Le cas de Georgetown University
Précédé d’un court chapeau introductif, l’entretien avec Adam Rothman, professeur d’histoire à l’université de Georgetown, à Washington, D.C., retrace le processus entamé par l’université afin d’explorer les liens de l’institution avec l’esclavage et d’envisager les formes de réparations possibles
W.E.B. Du Bois, Nicolas Martin‐Breteau (traduction, introduction et appareil critique), Les Noirs de Philadelphie. Une étude sociale [The Philadelphia Negro. A Social Study, 1899]
Les travaux du grand historien, sociologue, crivain et militant africain-amricain W.E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) sont longtemps rests mconnus en France, l'exception de son ouvrage le plus rdit aux tats-Unis, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), qui introduit notamment la notion de double conscience des Africains-Amricains, dchirs entre deux identits, amricaine et africaine 1 . mes noires est publi en 1959 par la maison d'dition Prsence Africaine dans une…
Black History and African American Studies in France: A Critical Survey
This essay, written by three French scholars who specialize in African American history, provides a tentative assessment of African American studies in France. Starting with a survey of the field, it goes on to raise issues specific to the French context. While French scholars have tended to focus on the periods of the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement, they have until recently paid little attention to the history of US slavery, pa…
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain. William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques: Lyon, ENS Éditions / Institut d’histoire du livre, 2023, 290 p…
Le rôle déterminant des agents littéraires dans la circulation transatlantique des textes est souvent ignoré des chercheurs, ainsi que le rappelle Jean-Yves Mollier dans sa belle préface à l’ouvrage. L’excellente monographie de Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Professeure à Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, constitue un apport important dans ce domaine. Après Cécile Cottenet, qui s’était intéressée à l’agence Hoffman dans Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Bo…
Where are the names of our illustrious ones? » . La construction d’un panthéon africain-américain, années 1820-guerre de Sécession
Nineteenth-century African American historians believed in the power of history to change minds, fight racial prejudice, make African Americans proud of their past and address their current condition. This history with an agenda relied in part on collective biographies, i.e. biographical sketches of great men and (a few) women. This essay will examine the way this pantheon was constructed in the early African American press as well as the first b…
Christen Bryson, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Favian Mostura (dirs), Pour une société meilleure ? La littérature prescriptive aux Etats-Unis, entre mise en conformité et approche émancipatrice
Art (11 works) · Humanities (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)