Charles Forsdick
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 765866 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles Forsdick |
| PRENOMES | Charles |
| SOBRENOME | Forsdick |
| ASSINATURA | FORSDICK C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7470-8421 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Writing Paris
‘What does it mean’, asks Keith Reader in the introduction to The Place de la Bastille: The Story of a Quartier (2011), ‘to write about a city?’ Keith’s erudite, eclectic and often very witty response was outlined in two of his final projects, this book on the Bastille and its companion volume, The Marais: The Story of a Quartier (2020). The role of place is evident throughout his work, whether on cinematic topographies or the multiple impacts of…
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The translational epistemologies of World Literature
Translation has regularly been deployed as a defining aspect of World Literature. This is notably the case in the work of David Damrosch, who claims in a number of studies that it is circulation between contexts in different languages that underpins the ‘gains’ of any work falling into the category. This article explores, expands, and ultimately challenges such readings by focusing, in addition, on the production and consumption of World Literatu…
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“Every Discipline […] is a Lineage of Begetting”
Published in 1972, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s call for the “abolition of the English department” – a response to an internal paper produced in 1968 relating to the future of the Department of English at the University of Nairobi – is a key intervention in the decolonization of the ways in which we study literature and culture and build the disciplinary frames in which this activity occurs. The reaction in this document by Ngũgĩ and his peers constitutes…
Translingual poetics and the politics of language
The corpus of contemporary translingual writing in French is varied in terms of both the origins of the authors associated with this burgeoning literary phenomenon and the range of topics that writers address. Studies of this translingual corpus tend to focus nevertheless on a recurrent set of aspects including the fictionalization of language acquisition and the active intertextual engagement of authors with canonical French literature. These em…
Framing the Penal Colony
This edited book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media.
Writing the World with Michaël Ferrier
Writing the World with Micha€ el FerrierPour comprendre la France, il est n ecessaire de passer par d'autres pays.Il faut aller voir ailleurs pour comprendre ce qu'est la France.-Micha€ el Ferrier, M emoires d'outre-merWhen there is enough out-of-placeness in the world, nothing is out of place.-Don DeLillo, Mao II Micha€ el Ferrier describes himself, in an academic context, as "a French writer, novelist and essayist."But for anyone who has read h…
Between transnational and postcolonial
The article situates M emoires d'outre-mer in current debates about lieux de m emoire, and in particular about the ways in which the concept elaborated by Pierre Nora is increasingly scrutinized in the light of its silences relating to colonial memory. Ferrier focuses on realms of memory such as the Mahajanga cemetery around which much of his text is constructed, but also engages directly with one of the subjects of Nora's collection, the school …
Fleming, Maillart and Their Leicas
Travel writing is not only one of the most bodily of literary genres – it is also one of the most theatrical, with travellers often treating the equipment that accompanies them as props in the drama of the journey. This chapter studies accounts of a journey across Xinjiang in 1935 – Peter Flemingʼs News from Tartary and Ella Maillartʼs Forbidden Journey) – and analyses the role of the travellersʼ Leica cameras in their accounts. These two narrati…
Translating Covid-19
This article tests the hypothesis that all pandemics are inherently translational. We argue that translation and translation theory can be fruitfully used to understand and manage epidemics, as they help us explore concepts of infectivity and immunity in terms of cultural and biological resistance. After examining the linkage between translation and coronavirus disease from three different yet interlinked perspectives—cultural, medical, and biocu…
Framing the Penal Colony
Concepts voyageurs
Resume :Cet article s’appuie sur l’essai d’Edward Saïd « Théorie voyageuse » (1982) pour retracer l’évolution de l’exotisme comme concept voyageant à travers les histoires et les cultures. Il s’agit d’examiner le manque de théorisation de l’élément exotique dans les études postcoloniales et de souligner le besoin de le soumettre au même niveau d’attention critique que d’autres concepts dans la discipline. D’une part, l’article propose une histori…
Vertical travel
This introduction outlines the background of our special issue of Studies in Travel Writing, which emerged from reflections on travel and the travelogue in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. It details the impact of this global public health crisis on questions of mobility and foregrounds the confinement to which travellers have been subject. The introduction argues that such changes should not be confined to the hypercontemporary moment but n…
Between Censorship and Amnesia
The article focuses on the censorship of Léon-Gontran Damas’s 1937 Retour de Guyane, a searing critique of French administration of this South American colony. The colonial authorities sought to ban Damas’s book, allegedly purchasing and burning 1,000 copies of it (of a print-run, at the author’s own expense, of only 1,500). In this book, Damas targets in particular the failure of the penal colony in the territory and suggests that the institutio…
The Black Jacobins Reader
Introduction From Populism to Decolonisation
This article introduces, and contextualises, the contributions to the collection 'The global crisis in memory'. Since the 1980s, the idea of ‘coming to terms with the past’, shaped by the values of neoliberal economics and liberal politics, became part of a globally-powerful consensus over how societies should overcome violent and traumatic experiences. In the 2010s, in the context of the global rise of populist nationalisms, political hostility …
Afterword
Literature and Decolonization
The recasting of decolonization through the lens of cultural agents demands a recognition that a key element of the process of uncoupling colonizer and colonized involves the imagination (or re-imagination) of postcolonial futures. These practices take place in novels, poetry, and theatre as much as they do in law, philosophy, or political theory. An expanded focus on the cultures of decolonization emphasizes, at the same time, the transnational …
Dangerous Neighbors
Situating Haiti
Until recent years and with several notable exceptions, there appears to have been relatively little interest in Haiti among scholars in the field of francophone studies. The article takes this apparent absence as its starting point, and explores the possible ramifications of a renewed attention to Haitian history and culture for studies of francophone postcoloniality. Central to the discussion is a series of French and British representations of…
Postcolonializing the bagne
In Pierre Nora's Lieux de mémoire project, there are no obvious references to the bagne . The omission is surprising, for this institution has long played a significant role in the French imagination. It persists in the French language in several prominent expressions, and continues to be associated with key national symbols such as the bonnet phrygien . This silencing is associated with representations of the penal colony in popular culture and …
The Panthéon's empty plinth
This article takes as its starting point a symbolically empty site in the French commemorative landscape – the plinth in the Panthéon to where Toussaint Louverture's remains may have been transferred had plans to pantheonize him ever been realized. It argues that the implications of this emblematic absence at the heart of official memorial practices in France are at least twofold: not only does this empty site reflect the persistent and systemati…
The Rise of the Francophone Postcolonial Intellectual
Although discussions of the French intellectual often address engagement with anti-colonialism and the decolonisation process more generally, most notably in relation to the Algerian War of Independence, critical attention is rarely directed at the existence of a wider yet related intellectual culture that may connect the disparate parts of the French-speaking world. This article explores the rise of the postcolonial intellectual in this politico…
Haiti and departmentalization
The article explores the ways in which discussion of the departmentalized French Caribbean must take into account the wider history of the region, and in particular historical links between the former vieilles colonies , Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti. Studying the historical and ideological background to the departmentalization law of 1946, it suggests that Haiti serves as an inspiration for the structures on which it depends, but reveals at t…
The Black Jacobins Reader
Introduction From Populism to Decolonisation
This article introduces, and contextualises, the contributions to the collection 'The global crisis in memory'. Since the 1980s, the idea of ‘coming to terms with the past’, shaped by the values of neoliberal economics and liberal politics, became part of a globally-powerful consensus over how societies should overcome violent and traumatic experiences. In the 2010s, in the context of the global rise of populist nationalisms, political hostility …
Who owns Haiti
With the forced removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office by an international coalition in February 2004, the question of Haitian sovereignty and of the country's continued exposure to foreign intervention became particularly apparent. These issues were amplified in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, when a fragile state infrastructure was eclipsed by the excessively influential presence of international NGOs. Revelations…
From the 'Aesthetics of Diversity' to the 'Poetics of Relating
The article explores the 'significant missed rendezvous' and posthumous critical dialogue between Victor Segalen (1878-1919) and Édouard Glissant (1928-2011). It studies the ways in which the Martinican novelist, poet and theorist identified Segalen as a catalytic presence in his thought and as one of his privileged, lifelong interlocutors. The study tracks the role of Segalen's work in the steady emergence and elaboration of Glissant's thought, …
Between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’
Direction les oubliettes de l'histoire
Travel, slavery, memory
Siting Postcolonial Memory
What—in the context of the francophone world—is the relationship between social memories and official memory, between the memories of former colonisers and those of the former colonised? What are the links between literary and cultural manifestations of memory and the actually existing memories that these take as their objects of study? The aim of the article is to situate Didier Daeninckx's New Caledonia ‘cycle’ within the context of current deb…
Travelling Concepts
Postcolonial Counterpoint
Postcolonial Counterpoint: Orientalism, France and the Maghreb by Farid Laroussi." University of Toronto Quarterly, 87(3), pp. 320–321
Global France, Global French
The article considers the theme of “Global France, Global French” in the frame of current debates on monolingualism and multilingualism. It explores questions of language use in contemporary France, and focuses on the linguaphobia evident in a number of contemporary ideological, political, social, and cultural contexts. The study suggests that the study of France and French in a global frame requires greater attention to questions of multilingual…
Compensating for the past
The article explores the place of reparations for slavery in the contemporary politics and culture of France and the French-speaking Caribbean. Considerable attention has recently been paid to the recent decision of CARICOM leaders to set up a reparations commission, but similar questions relating to slavery and its (financial) afterlives have also been raised (and remain equally unresolved) in the Francophone world. In a press conference in Daka…
Translation in the Caribbean, the Caribbean in Translation
Those working on the Caribbean have regularly adopted the figures and practices of translation in their work and also have devoted attention to the study of various translational processes. The presence of the Caribbean in translation studies remains, however, considerably less evident. This essay reflects on this missed cross-disciplinary rendezvous, foregrounding the importance of questions of cultural translation in a Caribbean context but at …
Mobilising French Studies
Preface (2014) by Charles ForsdickWhen Mobilising French Studies was published in 2011, it constituted attempt reflect on what might happen when we privilege a potent keyword - in this case mobility, and its verb form to mobilize - across a specific disciplinary field. I was particularly interested in the ways in which the harnessing of the polysemy of might resonate through French studies, federating existing activity, catalysing fresh work and …
Madison Smartt Bell's Toussaint at the Crossroads
Central to Madison Smartt Bell's trilogy of novels on the Haitian Revolution is the character of Toussaint Louverture. The article considers how Bell's Toussaint fits into two centuries of representations of the revolutionary leader, exploring in particular the ways in which his character is to be situated between historiography and fiction. It addresses the extensive documentary foundations of Bell's fictional account, while highlighting the ima…
Plonger dans un milieu réel
Victor Segalen and museology
Plonger dans un milieu réel
Viator in Fabula
What is travel? Simply a loop or a detour that distorts the linear course of life, a risky event resulting from inspiration or obligation, a calling, a rite, an episode, a rupture, a specific by-product of curiosity or, among other things, a means of understanding, a way to have fun, or even a remedy to get better. [...] Travel is perhaps all of those things. But is it not also a proliferation of justified uses of space? Jacques Meunier writes: '…
I Travel, Therefore I Am
It quickly became obvious that it is impossible to translate these expressions in terms of any absolute understanding of distance, according to which ‘close to’ is supposed to refer to shorter distances than ‘far from’. The following two sentences are enough to disperse any remaining doubt about this: Jupiter is close to Saturn the electron is far from its nucleus The expression ‘close to’ in the first sentence actually describes a much greater d…
Direction les oubliettes de l'histoire
Travelling Concepts
Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: VICTOR SEGALEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY 1. Defining the Exotic: Exotcism as an Approach to Radical Diversity 2. Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique 3. Polynesia and Difference 4. China and Alterity 5. Towards a New Practice of Exoticism CONCLUSION SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’
(In)connaissance de l'Asie’
Connections are rarely established between Roland Barthes and Nicolas Bouvier, writers whom recent commentators on post-war French-language travel literature (such as Michel Le Bris) have routinely situated in diametric opposition to each other. In an often overlooked detail of L'Empire des signes, however, a concrete link exists, for Bouvier provided a number of the photographs to which Barthes's text responds. The article will take this (albeit…
Situating Haiti
Until recent years and with several notable exceptions, there appears to have been relatively little interest in Haiti among scholars in the field of francophone studies. The article takes this apparent absence as its starting point, and explores the possible ramifications of a renewed attention to Haitian history and culture for studies of francophone postcoloniality. Central to the discussion is a series of French and British representations of…
Madison Smartt Bell's Toussaint at the Crossroads
Central to Madison Smartt Bell's trilogy of novels on the Haitian Revolution is the character of Toussaint Louverture. The article considers how Bell's Toussaint fits into two centuries of representations of the revolutionary leader, exploring in particular the ways in which his character is to be situated between historiography and fiction. It addresses the extensive documentary foundations of Bell's fictional account, while highlighting the ima…
Haiti and departmentalization
The article explores the ways in which discussion of the departmentalized French Caribbean must take into account the wider history of the region, and in particular historical links between the former vieilles colonies , Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti. Studying the historical and ideological background to the departmentalization law of 1946, it suggests that Haiti serves as an inspiration for the structures on which it depends, but reveals at t…
Interpreting 2004
This article reflects on the presence (and absence) of references to Haiti in the events surrounding the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Great Britain. It suggests that a growing public awareness of and media attention to Haiti is associated with an increased interest among academic researchers. The article concludes with a reflection on the impact and the implications of the intensive scholarly engagement with Haiti since 2004…
Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World
Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World
In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational formations of the post-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparativ…
Introduction
Travel writing, as a result of its subject matter, is an inherently transcultural, transnational, even translingual phenomenon. It might be argued, in addition, that of all literary genres, the tra
Peter Fleming and Ella Maillart in China
This article studies the competing accounts of a 1935 journey undertaken by Peter Fleming and Ella Maillart, News from Tartary (1936) and Forbidden Journey/Oasis interdites (1937). It explores the ways in which these multiple textualisations permit reflection on the nature of such a stereoscopic rewriting of a shared journey, addressing the gendered comparatism to which this emphasis often lends itself, whilst outlining the potential pitfalls of …
The Rise of the Francophone Postcolonial Intellectual
Although discussions of the French intellectual often address engagement with anti-colonialism and the decolonisation process more generally, most notably in relation to the Algerian War of Independence, critical attention is rarely directed at the existence of a wider yet related intellectual culture that may connect the disparate parts of the French-speaking world. This article explores the rise of the postcolonial intellectual in this politico…
From “littérature voyageuse” to “littérature-monde”
Siting Postcolonial Memory
What—in the context of the francophone world—is the relationship between social memories and official memory, between the memories of former colonisers and those of the former colonised? What are the links between literary and cultural manifestations of memory and the actually existing memories that these take as their objects of study? The aim of the article is to situate Didier Daeninckx's New Caledonia ‘cycle’ within the context of current deb…
World Literature, Littérature-Monde
In March 2007, a literary manifesto appeared in Le Monde calling for the end of a political Francophonia and for the recognition of a litterature-monde (world-literature in French).1 Although there have been some notable exceptions, both individual and collective, over the past decade,2 the creatively oppositional role of the manifesto form, in French and more generally in Francophone literary culture, had for some time been in progressive declin…
Late Glissant
The article explores Edouard Glissant's literary, intellectual and political activity over the past decade in the light of Edward W. Said's concept of `late style'. There is no intention to present the Martiniquan writer and intellectual as an exemplum of Said's categorization. Instead, the aim is to suggest that a dichotimized understanding of `lateness', holding in tension extremes of harmony and intransigence, resolution and contradiction, may…
Burst of thunder, stage pitch black”
Haiti lies only six hundred miles from Florida [...]. It is [therefore] remarkable that the land and its people should be so little known to Americans. Although Haitian history has been closely relat
Mobilising French Studies
Preface (2014) by Charles ForsdickWhen Mobilising French Studies was published in 2011, it constituted attempt reflect on what might happen when we privilege a potent keyword - in this case mobility, and its verb form to mobilize - across a specific disciplinary field. I was particularly interested in the ways in which the harnessing of the polysemy of might resonate through French studies, federating existing activity, catalysing fresh work and …
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