Nottingham French Studies is an externally-refereed academic journal which, from Volume 43, 2004, appears three times annually, with at least one special and one general issue each year. Its Editorial Board is drawn from members of the Department of French and Francophone Studies of the University of Nottingham, with the support of an International Advisory Board.

Nottingham French Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that has been published three times a year since Volume 43 in 2004, featuring at least one special issue and one general issue each year. The Editorial Board is composed of members from the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, with support from an International Advisory Board.

《Nottingham French Studies》是一本经过外部审稿的学术期刊，自2004年第43卷起，每年出版三期，其中至少包含一期特刊和一期普通期刊。期刊的编辑委员会由诺丁汉大学法语及法语国家研究系的成员组成，并得到国际顾问委员会的支持。

Nottingham French Studies

This essay considers L’Évangile du nouveau monde (2021), Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé's last published novel during her lifetime, to be a victory lap of her œuvre, one in which she revisits her greatest thematic and poetic hits, while reaffirming her allegiance to social justice and the freedom of literature. Pascal, the novel's main protagonist, is a floundering full-time messiah and part-time author who travels from the Caribbean to Brazil via New York, bearing witness — albeit poorly — to some of the world's most pressing issues: police brutality, misogyny, xenophobia, exploitative work practices, and more. Behind Pascal's struggles to fulfill his mission to bring harmony to the world with his writings, Condé playfully conceals a capacious literary ethic rooted in humor, as an essential mode of critique, and love, as a Black feminist reading and writing praxis that insists on the complementary roles of intellectual mothers and fathers in the project of global emancipation.

Corine Labridy

The Gospel According to Maryse Condé: Black Feminist Literary Ethic in L’Évangile du nouveau monde (2021) and What’s Love and Laughter Got to Do with It

玛丽斯·孔戴的福音：《新世界福音》（2021）中的黑人女性主义文学伦理与爱与笑声的关系

Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020) depicts gender-based violence in the arts. This article examines Chavirer’s representation of artistic labor, beginning with a case of abuse and developing a wide-ranging critique of how inequity, exclusion, and exploitation shape artistic labor. The article then discusses how Chavirer adapts aesthetic form to bring artistic labor into the frame of the novel. Finally, the article situates the novel within current debates about artistic autonomy and heteronomy, outlining how the novel intervenes in debates about the specificity of the aesthetic and its response to conditions of artistic labor.

Brittany Briane Murray

Reeling: Violence, Exploitation and Artistic Labour in Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020)

《挣扎：洛拉·拉丰的《倾覆》（2020）中的暴力、剥削与艺术劳动》

This article considers Édouard Louis’s extensive literary œuvre from En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014) to his latest novel, Monique s’évade (2024), in conjunction with his interactions in the public sphere. It first explores how the space of the novel becomes as much a space of exploration of the various processes of domination that shaped his and his family’s lives as it is a space of self-reinvention. In particular, it is Louis’s transformation practice that guides this article. Indeed, this article looks at the ways in which Louis engages in processes of branding, be it the act of making a product or the act of marking something or someone, in turn building one coherent cultural figure commited to social justice and making audible and visible vulnerable lived experiences. Not only an écrivain engagé, Louis has also become a theatre performer and a political activist who deploys and controls his narrative in literature and beyond.

Loïc Bourdeau

Charly Verstraet

Becoming Édouard Louis and the Transmedial Social Novel

成为爱德华·路易斯与跨媒体社会小说

This article examines Priya Hein’s social novel Riambel (2023), analysing its utilization of literary devices, intertextuality, and feminist perspectives to challenge postcolonial power structures and amplify marginalized voices, particularly those of Afro-Mauritian women. Through an exploration of Hein’s dismantling of her narrative conventions and authorial insights, this study underlines Hein’s broader agenda of promoting solidarity and collective agency among the female characters. Ultimately, this article comments on Riambel as a narrative that unveils the deep-seated social injustices embedded within Mauritius’s postcolonial systems and infrastructures, inviting critical engagement with historical legacies, and fostering space for diverse voices.

Pooja Booluck-Miller

Where Heaven Meets Hell: A Literary Representation of a Postcolonial Society in Priya Hein’s Riambel (2023)

天堂与地狱的交汇：普里亚·海因《里安贝尔》（2023）中的后殖民社会文学再现

Since 2016, Joseph Andras has published a suite of lyrically dense, formally meticulous, literary-political experiments. In his Au loin le ciel du sud (2021), he focuses on Hô Chi Minh, a man who lived long enough to become a chief of state, having thwarted first the French and then the United States. This article argues that by using Hô Chi Minh as its guiding star, Au loin le ciel du sud takes its readers on a ‘left melancholic’ tour of Paris, one whose particular epistemological posture stirs to life sedimented layers of radical social history at each stop, and in doing so, begins to cultivate a reading subject who in turn becomes their living repository. As I will demonstrate, the formal strategies that enable such a literary project rise into focus when compared with another generic tradition, the post-1968 variant of the French detective novel, the néo-polar. In the terms considered by this special issue, the formal resemblance between Au loin le ciel du sud and the néo-polar links Andras’s book to a longer literary tradition of social critique, and the history of the ‘social novel’ more generally.

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Publication Information	Publisher: Edinburgh University Press，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1996，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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The Gospel According to Maryse Condé: Black Feminist Literary Ethic in L’Évangile du nouveau monde (2021) and What’s Love and Laughter Got to Do with It

Reeling: Violence, Exploitation and Artistic Labour in Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020)

Becoming Édouard Louis and the Transmedial Social Novel

Where Heaven Meets Hell: A Literary Representation of a Postcolonial Society in Priya Hein’s Riambel (2023)

Red Threads: a ‘Left-Melancholic’ Walk Through Paris in Joseph Andras’s Au loin le ciel du sud (2021)

The Gospel According to Maryse Condé: Black Feminist Literary Ethic in L’Évangile du nouveau monde (2021) and What’s Love and Laughter Got to Do with It

Reeling: Violence, Exploitation and Artistic Labour in Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020)

Becoming Édouard Louis and the Transmedial Social Novel

Where Heaven Meets Hell: A Literary Representation of a Postcolonial Society in Priya Hein’s Riambel (2023)

Red Threads: a ‘Left-Melancholic’ Walk Through Paris in Joseph Andras’s Au loin le ciel du sud (2021)

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