Unearthing French Colonial Massacres through Contemporary Francophone Art
In the histories of French colonialism, silence often speaks louder than fact. Archives disappear. Witnesses are silenced. Testimonies are buried under decades of censorship and state-sanctioned forgetting. But in the gaps left behind, literature, film, photography, and graphic novels begin to speak, insisting that the past is not past, and that memory is a political act.
This is the core of a new special issue of Nouvelles Études Francophones, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, for which the editor is Taïeb Berrada, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Focused on French colonial massacres, it gathers a cohort of scholars who examine how contemporary Francophone cultural production reconstructs, reimagines, and resists historical silences.
Read the full story on the College of Arts and Sciences News.
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Taïeb Berrada
Associate professor of French and Francophone Studies