An established journal of reference inviting all critical approaches on the latest debates and issues in the field, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (formerly known as SITES) provides a forum not only for academics, but for novelists, poets, artists, journalists, and filmmakers as well. In addition to its focus on French and Francophone studies, one of the journal"s primary objectives is to reflect the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field and by the humanities and the arts in general. CF&FS is published five times per year, with four issues devoted to particular themes, and a fifth issue, “The Open Issue” welcoming non-thematic contributions.

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies is a well-established academic journal that invites critical approaches to the latest debates and issues in the field of contemporary French and Francophone studies. This journal provides a platform not only for academics but also for novelists, poets, artists, journalists, and filmmakers. In addition to its focus on French and Francophone studies, one of the journal's primary objectives is to reflect the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field, as well as by the humanities and the arts in general. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies is published five times a year, with four issues dedicated to specific themes and a fifth issue, 'The Open Issue,' welcoming non-thematic contributions.

《Contemporary French and Francophone Studies》是一本权威的学术期刊，欢迎所有关于当代法语和法语国家研究领域最新辩论和问题的批判性探讨。该期刊不仅为学者提供了一个交流的平台，也欢迎小说家、诗人、艺术家、记者和电影制作人参与。除了关注法语和法语国家的研究外，期刊的主要目标之一是反映该领域以及人文学科和艺术的一般跨学科发展。《Contemporary French and Francophone Studies》每年出版五期，其中四期专注于特定主题，第五期为“开放期”，欢迎非主题性投稿。

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

This essay reads Maryse Condé's Citation1999 récit d'enfance, Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer, as a "generational text"; a text that is both about the unresolved and ambivalent feelings aroused by writing about the dead mother, and also about this loss as the site and source of (literary) generation. Le Cœur defiantly rewrites the classic narrative of Antillean matrifocality, and yet, although the mother's death is relegated to a single line, maternal loss suffuses the entire narrative. Moreover, the text is a reflection on language, writing and literature more generally, and can be read as an exploration of the painful transition from preoedipal to symbolic. Words in this text are destructive entities that wound and distort all relationships, but especially the relationship with the mother, igniting a sustained yearning to return to the security of the prelinguistic pre-oedipal.

Maeve McCusker

Words, Wounds and Pre-oedipal Oneness: Maryse Condé’s Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer

词语、创伤与前俄狄浦斯合一性：玛丽斯·孔戴的《心在笑与哭》

Glissant's novel Malemort triggered in Chamoiseau a lasting fascination for this style of writing that was both negative and almost impenetrable in its language and narration, but paradoxically liberating in terms of what the novelistic form—a form that this article calls Antillean Modernism—can accomplish. Stylistically marked in its form by Faulkner and Joyce, Malemort's Modernism is at the same time Caribbean and planetary. The political and aesthetic stakes of Malemort cannot really be understood in isolation and must be put in relation with its direct tributaries and other contemporaneous key works of Caribbean modernism. However, the notion of hierarchical influence must be rejected, and that of generations also further interrogated, in keeping with the non-linear history of the Caribbean, with its spiral temporalities and inherent multiplicity. Finally, this article will put forward that Malemort performs an apparently conflicting but truly fertile relationship between Antillean Modernism and key tenets of Adorno's aesthetic theory.

Hugues Azérad

« Un cri noué en forme de langage » : Malemort , ou la naissance du modernisme antillais

« 以语言形式发出的呐喊 »：《马勒莫尔》，或加勒比现代主义的诞生

Laurence Enjolras

Déserts palimpsestes : La Cicatrice intérieure de Philippe Garrel

重写的《沙漠》：菲利普·加瑞尔的《内心的伤痕》

Marie Darrieussecq

Le désert, le vide, et l’écriture

沙漠、虚空与书写

Kellie Giordano

“Eat Your Words”: Body Desertion, Binge Writing and Orthorexia in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes (1996)

“食言”：身体遗弃、狂写与正食癖在玛丽·达里厄塞克的《 Truismes》（1996）中

Sandrine Joelle Eyang E

Humanisme et écologie dans Petroleum de Bessora et Désert de J.M.G Le Clézio. Forêt équatoriale : antithèse du désert ?

《贝索拉的〈石油〉与勒克莱齐奥的〈沙漠〉中的人文主义与生态学。赤道森林：沙漠的对立面？》

Tessa Sermet

The Utopian Impulse of Ayerdhal’s Demain, une oasis

艾尔德哈尔《明日，一片绿洲》中的乌托邦冲动

Abbreviation	Contemp. Fr. Francoph. Stud.
Journal Impact	0.21

ISSN	1740-9292, 1740-9306
h-index	10

Publication Information	Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1997，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 5.23%

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Words, Wounds and Pre-oedipal Oneness: Maryse Condé’s Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer

« Un cri noué en forme de langage » : Malemort , ou la naissance du modernisme antillais

Déserts palimpsestes : La Cicatrice intérieure de Philippe Garrel

Le désert, le vide, et l’écriture

“Eat Your Words”: Body Desertion, Binge Writing and Orthorexia in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes (1996)

Déserts palimpsestes : La Cicatrice intérieure de Philippe Garrel

Le désert, le vide, et l’écriture

“Eat Your Words”: Body Desertion, Binge Writing and Orthorexia in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes (1996)

Humanisme et écologie dans Petroleum de Bessora et Désert de J.M.G Le Clézio. Forêt équatoriale : antithèse du désert ?

The Utopian Impulse of Ayerdhal’s Demain, une oasis