Editors’ Introduction

Abstract

Roger Célestin is an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature and co-chair of French Studies at the University of Connecticut. He has written on Montaigne, Flaubert, Tournier, travel literature, and detective fiction and is the author of From Cannibals to Radicals. Figures and Limits of Exoticism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and is co-editor (with Isabelle de Courtivron and Eliane DalMolin) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980-2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2002). Eliane DalMolin is a professor of French and co-chair of French Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has published numerous articles on modern and contemporary poetry and on cinema and is the author of Cutting the Body: Representing Women in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and co-editor (with Roger Célestin and Isabelle de Courtivron) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980-2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2002). Johann Sadock's publications include articles on the cinema of Kassovitz (Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites), Israel Zangwill (Paragraphes), Francophone Jewish writers in Quebec such as Naïm Kattan and Victor Teboul (Paragraphes), the collective memory of Jews from Algeria in relation to French national history (French Contemporary Civilization), Arab and French representations in contemporary Sephardic literature (in Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World, University of Nebraska Press). He has also been published in L'infini (Gallimard). He has developed a Web project and made a documentary on young people from minority backgrounds in France.