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Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
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Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France's imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities. Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780252084751 |
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Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Publication date: | 12/03/2019 |
Series: | New Black Studies Series |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 260 |
Sales rank: | 418,530 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French at University of Michigan.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1
Introduction 5
1 Suzanne Césaire: Liberation beyond the Great Camouflage 29
2 Paulette Nardal: Martinican Women as Political Protagonists in the Overseas Department 57
3 Eugénie Éboué-Tell and Jane Vialle: Refiguring Power in the French Union 82
4 Andrée Blouin: Métissage and African Liberation in My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria 119
5 Aoua Kéita: Rural Women and the Anticolonial Movement in Femme d'Afrique: La vie d'Aoua Kéita racontée par elle-même 143
6 Eslanda Robeson: Transnational Black Feminism in the Global South 169
Epilogue 187
Notes 197
Bibliography 219
Index 233
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