Justin Izzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 223856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Izzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Izzo |
| SIGNATURE | IZZO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
René Ménil: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Antillean Subject
René Ménil (1907–2004) was a renowned Martinican essayist, critic, and philosopher who, along with Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Edouard Glissant, left an indelible mark on the Franco-Caribbean world of letters and intellectual thought. Ménil saw in surrealism a critical framework, a means to the specific end of exploring and expressing the specificities of the Martinican condition. Ménil assessed Martinique’s pre-war psychological condition th…
Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
In the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris the city's banlieues have again come under intense media and police scrutiny. These towns and neighborhoods have long been synonymous with poverty, criminality, and the marginalization of postcolonial migrants living in the metropole. But what do these sensationalized representations have to tell us about myths of a colorblind, universalist Paris that sees itself—and especially the city center—as…
Thinking Hybridity in the Age of Trump: Obama, Utopia, and Creole Futures Past
In 2009, Martinican writers Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau published a short address to President Obama, writing his rise and election victory into planetary histories of creolization. This short text appears outdated or even naïve today, since Glissant and Chamoiseau’s reading of Obama seeks to inaugurate new narratives of American historical and political time that seem entirely foreclosed by the arrival of Donald Trump on the world st…
A Question to Be Lived
This essay develops an anthropological genealogy of the créolité literary project. Examining works by Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, the author studies how the créolistes read ethnography and the social sciences into a revitalized creole literary history, generating a vision of creole fiction as ethnographic fiction. More specifically, he demonstrates how the human sciences perform three interrelated tasks in the hist…
Michel K. Zongo, director. La Sirène de Faso Fani. (The Siren of Faso Fani). 2015. 90 minutes. French and Mossi, with English subtitles. France, Burkina Faso, and Germany. Diam Production, Perfect Sho…
Michel K. Zongo, director. La Sirène de Faso Fani. (The Siren of Faso Fani). 2015. 90 minutes. French and Mossi, with English subtitles. France, Burkina Faso, and Germany. Diam Production, Perfect Shot Films, Cinédoc Films. No price reported. - Volume 59 Issue 3
Is globalization a humanism? Pleasure, the world economy, and the global palimpsest according to Gaston-Paul Effa
This article deals with multilayered narratives of experiences of globalization in Franco-Cameroonian author Gaston-Paul Effa's 2005 novel, Voici le dernier jour du monde (Monaco: Editions du Rocher). This book sees an African writer return to his fictionalized home country called Bakassi from France, where he had relocated as a child. Once in Bakassi he observes how his compatriots both appropriate global trends and ideologies of pleasure while …
Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression
Jean-Marie Teno's Documentary Modernity: From Millennial Anxiety to Cinematic Kinship
This article examines discourses and cinematic representations of modernity in two documentary films by the Cameroonian director Jean-Marie Teno. In the first of these films,A Trip to the Country(2000), Teno investigates how ideals and aspirations of modernity as a state-sponsored project in Cameroon have their roots in the colonial period, and his film is characterized by a strong sense of anxiety linked to the turn of the millennium. In the sec…
From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation
This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphaël Confiant’s 1994 L’allée des soupirs . This novel fictionalizes the 1959 riots in Martinique while simultaneously creating characters who debate the relative merits of modes of expression capable of capturing the linguistic, cultural, and racial hybridity of créolité in literature. Confiant translates into fictional terms important precepts on Caribbean literar…
Narrative, contingency, modernity: Jean Rouch's Moi, un Noir (1958)
This article deals with the ethnographic production of modernity in Jean Rouch's film about Nigerien economic migrants in pre-independence Ivory Coast, Moi, un Noir . Following Fredric Jameson's assertion that we can conceive of modernity as a rhetorical trope and a narrative category that is subject to potentially limitless rewritings, the article suggests that Moi, un Noir 's improvisational narrative allows Rouch to re-stage a narrative of mod…
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Narrative, contingency, modernity: Jean Rouch's Moi, un Noir (1958)
This article deals with the ethnographic production of modernity in Jean Rouch's film about Nigerien economic migrants in pre-independence Ivory Coast, Moi, un Noir . Following Fredric Jameson's assertion that we can conceive of modernity as a rhetorical trope and a narrative category that is subject to potentially limitless rewritings, the article suggests that Moi, un Noir 's improvisational narrative allows Rouch to re-stage a narrative of mod…
From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation
This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphaël Confiant’s 1994 L’allée des soupirs . This novel fictionalizes the 1959 riots in Martinique while simultaneously creating characters who debate the relative merits of modes of expression capable of capturing the linguistic, cultural, and racial hybridity of créolité in literature. Confiant translates into fictional terms important precepts on Caribbean literar…
Is globalization a humanism? Pleasure, the world economy, and the global palimpsest according to Gaston-Paul Effa
This article deals with multilayered narratives of experiences of globalization in Franco-Cameroonian author Gaston-Paul Effa's 2005 novel, Voici le dernier jour du monde (Monaco: Editions du Rocher). This book sees an African writer return to his fictionalized home country called Bakassi from France, where he had relocated as a child. Once in Bakassi he observes how his compatriots both appropriate global trends and ideologies of pleasure while …
Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression
Jean-Marie Teno's Documentary Modernity: From Millennial Anxiety to Cinematic Kinship
This article examines discourses and cinematic representations of modernity in two documentary films by the Cameroonian director Jean-Marie Teno. In the first of these films,A Trip to the Country(2000), Teno investigates how ideals and aspirations of modernity as a state-sponsored project in Cameroon have their roots in the colonial period, and his film is characterized by a strong sense of anxiety linked to the turn of the millennium. In the sec…
Michel K. Zongo, director. La Sirène de Faso Fani. (The Siren of Faso Fani). 2015. 90 minutes. French and Mossi, with English subtitles. France, Burkina Faso, and Germany. Diam Production, Perfect Sho…
Michel K. Zongo, director. La Sirène de Faso Fani. (The Siren of Faso Fani). 2015. 90 minutes. French and Mossi, with English subtitles. France, Burkina Faso, and Germany. Diam Production, Perfect Shot Films, Cinédoc Films. No price reported. - Volume 59 Issue 3
A Question to Be Lived
This essay develops an anthropological genealogy of the créolité literary project. Examining works by Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, the author studies how the créolistes read ethnography and the social sciences into a revitalized creole literary history, generating a vision of creole fiction as ethnographic fiction. More specifically, he demonstrates how the human sciences perform three interrelated tasks in the hist…
Thinking Hybridity in the Age of Trump: Obama, Utopia, and Creole Futures Past
In 2009, Martinican writers Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau published a short address to President Obama, writing his rise and election victory into planetary histories of creolization. This short text appears outdated or even naïve today, since Glissant and Chamoiseau’s reading of Obama seeks to inaugurate new narratives of American historical and political time that seem entirely foreclosed by the arrival of Donald Trump on the world st…
René Ménil: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Antillean Subject
René Ménil (1907–2004) was a renowned Martinican essayist, critic, and philosopher who, along with Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Edouard Glissant, left an indelible mark on the Franco-Caribbean world of letters and intellectual thought. Ménil saw in surrealism a critical framework, a means to the specific end of exploring and expressing the specificities of the Martinican condition. Ménil assessed Martinique’s pre-war psychological condition th…
Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
In the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris the city's banlieues have again come under intense media and police scrutiny. These towns and neighborhoods have long been synonymous with poverty, criminality, and the marginalization of postcolonial migrants living in the metropole. But what do these sensationalized representations have to tell us about myths of a colorblind, universalist Paris that sees itself—and especially the city center—as…
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