Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms

Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms represents a bold examination of previous feminist criticisms of Fanon and argues that Fanon's writings on women and resistance provide the formative kernels of a liberating praxis for women existing under colonial and neocolonial oppression. Sharpley-Whiting skillfully brings together approaches from a broad range of academic fields, including critical race theory, literary and cultural criticism, and psychoanalysis as she assesses the relevance of Fanon's theories of oppression to a feminist politics of resistance.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean

Sociology

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Negritude Women

The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood almost exclusively in terms of the contributions of its male founders: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon G. Damas. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women in its creation and evolution. In Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by four women-Suzanne Lacascade, Jane and Paulette Nardal, and Suzanne Roussy-Césaire-who were not merely integral to the success of the movement, but often in its vanguard. Through such disparate tactics as Lacascade's use of Creole expressions in her French prose writings, the literary salon and journal founded by the Martinique-born Nardal sisters, and Roussy-Césaire's revolutionary blend of surrealism and Negritude in the pages of Tropiques, the journal she founded with her husband, these four remarkable women made vital contributions. In exploring their influence on the development of themes central to Negritude-black humanism, the affirmation of black peoples and their cultures, and the rehabilitation of Africa-Sharpley-Whiting provides the movement's first genuinely inclusive history. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is professor of Africana studies and Romance languages and chair of Africana studies at Hamilton College.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title LONGLISTED - 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award, presented by the American Library in Paris Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression. During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktop’s Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada “Bricktop” Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld. “This is a book readers will want to own. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, it is a study of racism, chauvinism, courage, talent, and the power of place … Essential.” — CHOICE “Bricktop’s Paris vibrantly recreates and reimagines the fascinating world of Jazz Age Paris by placing black women at the center of the story. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting gives us a valuable new perspective on Ada “Bricktop” Smith, giving her the prominence usually attributed to Josephine Baker. She also provides detailed portraits of other singers, musicians, writers, and artists who left America for the French capital. Written with enthusiasm and insight, Bricktop’s Paris underscores the importance of women to transatlantic black modernity.” — Tyler Stovall, author of Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light “Bricktop’s Paris is a remarkable feat. Sharpley-Whiting’s book is a woman’s story about dreaming and making dreams happen. It is a political story, a story about migration, and re-creation. It is a dazzling account of bold women reshaping their lives as New Women/Modern Women and black women in Europe. A woman’s place is not only viewed in the sphere of domesticity through Sharpley-Whiting’s writing, she also reimagines the complexity of life far away from home and on stage, in the studio, and in the nightclub. She captures their spirit and desires and walks us through this history arm and arm, singing, writing, dancing, and making art. I fell in love with these women as I empathized with their struggles, some of them I knew through other writings but through Sharpley-Whiting I felt as if I knew them intimately as they made their lives count some fifty years after Reconstruction. She restores their voices and their bodies and makes them present for the contemporary reader. Brilliant!” — Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

State University of New York Press

Longtemps passées sous silence, la sexualité dans les empires coloniaux et la domination sur les corps apparaissent aujourd'hui comme des sujets de recherches majeurs. Les héritages de cette histoire font désormais débats dans nos sociétés de plus en plus métissées et mondialisées. Six siècles d'histoire ont construit des imaginaires, des fantasmes et des pratiques analysés dans cet ouvrage au fil des cinquante contributions de spécialistes internationaux. Coordonné par un collectif paritaire de dix chercheur.e.s de plusieurs disciplines, l'ouvrage Sexualités, identités et corps colonisés tisse des liens entre passé et présent, et explore les nombreuses facettes de cette histoire. La publication de Sexe, race & colonies en 2018 a initié débats et polémiques, mais a aussi reçu un écho sans précédent. Ce nouveau livre va plus loin. Aux quinze articles majeurs du précédent ouvrage, réédités pour les rendre accessibles au plus grand nombre, ont été ajoutées trente contributions inédites éclairant la transversalité de cette question dans tous les empires coloniaux jusqu'aux sociétés postcoloniales actuelles. Ce livre permet de saisir comment la sexualité et les hiérarchies raciales ont été consubstantielles à l'organisation du pouvoir dans les empires et à l'invention d'imaginaires transnationaux. Déconstruire les regards coloniaux qui sont omniprésents dans nos représentations suppose de regarder en face cette hégémonie sexuelle mondialisée et ce passé, aussi complexe soit-il. C'est à ce prix qu'une décolonisation des imaginaires sera possible. Avant-propos d'Antoine Petit, président du CNRS Postfaces de Leïla Slimani et Jacques Martial

Sexualités, identités & corps colonisés. XVe siècle - XXIe siècle

History

Blanchard, Pascal

Chalaye, Sylvie

Taraud, Christelle

Thomas, Dominic

Bancel, Nicolas

Staszak, Jean-François

Boëtsch, Gilles

Robles, Fanny

Yahi, Naima

Europe

CNRS EDITIONS

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