Segregation and the Representation of Urban Space in Richard Wright’s Native Son

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After the Dance d’Edwidge Danticat : visions carnavalesques de l’espace haïtien

Je me propose ici d’examiner comment, dans son récit de voyage en Haïti, l’écrivaine haïtienne-américaine Edwidge Danticat perçoit le carnavalesque et l’intègre dans son discours afin de dépeindre l’espace géographique, historique et culturel de son pays d’origine et de porter par ailleurs un regard nouveau et éclairant sur soi.In my analysis of Edwidge Danticat’s travelogue, I will explore the Haitian American writer’s treatment of the carnivalesque in both her representation of her native land (its geography, history and culture) and her apprehension of a new self-image

Poétique de l’espace insulaire dans The Wedding de Dorothy West

I will examine how Dorothy West reconstructs the referential space of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachussets, in her last novel, The Wedding (1995). By focusing on her fictional mapping of the island and its black enclave, the Oval, my aim is to explore West’s poetics of space with relation to her criticism of the black upper class of the Os

DWM07 global empirical model of upper thermospheric storm-induced disturbance winds

We present a global empirical disturbance wind model (DWM07) that represents average geospace-storm-induced perturbations of upper thermospheric (200-600 km altitude) neutral winds. DWM07 depends on the following three parameters: magnetic latitude, magnetic local time, and the 3-h Kp geomagnetic activity index. The latitude and local time dependences are represented by vector spherical harmonic functions ( up to degree 10 in latitude and order 3 in local time), and the Kp dependence is represented by quadratic B-splines. DWM07 is the storm time thermospheric component of the new Horizontal Wind Model (HWM07), which is described in a companion paper. DWM07 is based on data from the Wind Imaging Interferometer on board the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, the Wind and Temperature Spectrometer on board Dynamics Explorer 2, and seven ground-based Fabry-Perot interferometers. The perturbation winds derived from the three data sets are in good mutual agreement under most conditions, and the model captures most of the climatological variations evident in the data

Introduction : Écritures diasporiques

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New Transatlantic Passages : African Immigrant Writers and Contemporary Black Literature in America

International audienceThe article examines the fictional works of first- and second-generation African immigrant writers who have recently emerged as new black voices in multiethnic American literature. The object of this preliminary study is to lay the foundations for further reflections on these new transatlantic passages, as they call for fresh thinking about the current developments in black diasporic writing and the reshaping of world literature at the outset of the twenty-first century.Cet article porte sur les ouvrages de fiction d'écrivains d'origine africaine, émigrés aux Etats-Unis (fin du XXe-début du XXIe siècle) et contribuant à la diversité / la diversification d'une littérature américaine multiethnique. Leurs productions littéraires invitent à repenser les canons de la littérature (afro-)américaine contemporaine, et plus globalement, à redéfinir les contours d'une littérature mondiale. (publication suite au Symposium international 'Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations", Juin 2011, U. de Montpellier 3

Les représentations de la déviance

International audience22 articles. Multidisciplinary approach in Social sciences, linguistics & Creole studies, and literature.Ce recueil réunit 22 articles regroupés en 4 chapitres: "Images du déviant: jeux et enjeux" consacré aus sciences humaines, "transgressions et translations de la langue" pour la linguistique et la stylistique, "Littératures et dérivies idéologiques" ouis "Nouvelles littératures: écarts et déccentrement" dans le domaine des lettres

Imaginaires et espaces en représentation dans les romans afro-américains et afro-caribéens

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Paule Marshall’s Reconstruction of Barbados in Brown Girl, Brownstones

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W.E.B. Du Bois : pour un art noir engagé

International audienceAnalyse critique de l'essai "Criteria of negro Art" de W.E.B. Du Boi