Anny Dominique CurtiusAssociate Professor of Francophone Studies
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My research is interdisciplinary in nature since it lies at the crossroads of two areas of scholarship: Francophone and Postcolonial Studies, and Comparative Caribbean Literature and Culture.
In the area of Comparative Caribbean Literature and Culture, I am the author of Symbioses d’une mémoire: Manifestations religieuses et littératures de la Caraïbe, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006, 314 pp. It is a work in Cultural Studies where literary analysis creates a dialogue between writings by missionaries and travel narratives by ethnographers, contemporary Caribbean literature, and four significant Caribbean religious phenomena: the Rastafari Movement, Obeah, Quimbois and Vodou. The book contends on the one hand that the process of creolization in the Caribbean, and the relational dimension through which Caribbean societies need to be conceived, cannot be fully addressed without a serious consideration of the religious heritage of Caribbean cultures. On the other hand I propose that new Caribbean postcolonial discourses must be articulated at the junction of two texts: early modern texts formulating discourses of ideological domination, and contemporary ones elaborating oppositional dynamics.
In my latest book project, Unveiling the Camouflage: Suzanne Césaire’s Caribbean Discourse, I do an in-depth analysis of the virtually unacknowledged work of the enigmatic Suzanne Césaire, late wife of Aimé Césaire.
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