Dear Colleagues,

This special issue of Francophone Film and Literature aims to challenge practitioners in the field of Francophone Studies to think more imaginatively and inclusively about new lived experiences through a range of reading practices that take into account race, ethnicity, and gendered (as opposed to only feminist) contexts. This issue makes use of untapped historical archival records that link new practices to old ones in order to fundamentally reshape our present understanding of the world. We need to engage scholars of French and Francophone film and literature to formulate new tools for interpreting and accounting for a range of multiple identities and experiences, while also constantly rethinking decolonization. Papers are invited that will challenge western teleology, dominant discourses, and compartmentalization through alternative thinking and decolonial practices. Decolonizing the mind is no longer a movement in contrast to or in defense of a dominant discourse, it requires instead a practice that breaks altogether from old systems of order to create new ones.

This Issue is designed to be interdisciplinary in scope and will be useful as a contribution in both upper-level seminars and graduate courses in Animal Studies, French Studies/ Film and Literature, African Studies/Film and Literature, Gender and Women Studies, LGBTQI Studies, Race Studies, Theatre Studies, History, Critical Theory and Postcolonial Studies.

Prof. Frieda Ekotto
Prof. Bénédicte Boisseron
Guest Editors

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• decolonial
• race, gender
• LGBT
• posthuman
• intersectionality
• political activism