Terms
Authors
Books
Geogrophy
100
This adjective describes French speaking territories.
What is Francophone?
100
This Martinican scholar and psychiatrist work focuses on "unmasking" the impacts of colonialism from a West Indian perspective.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
100
This epistolary novel set in Senegal begins with the death of the main character's husband.
What is So Long a Letter?
100
More than two of our Book Club books are set in this West African country.
What is Senegal?
200
The term (literally ‘negro-ness’) of a cultural movement launched by black students in Paris in 1932, subsequently influencing many black writers, especially in the French-speaking world (Oxford Reference).
What is Négritude?
200
We have read both a theory and a novel by this Guadeloupian author.
Who is Maryse Condé?
200
This novel is perfect for histroy buffs.
What is Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade?
200
This region has ties to the African Diaspora due to the influx of enslaved peoples during the 16th through 19th centuries.
What is the Caribbean?
300
This term describes a geopolitical response to Negritude which is catagorized by a refusal to be universalized.
What is Antillanité (Caribbeanness)?
300
This Palestinian American academic, literary critic, and political activist is considered one of the foundational critics of Postcolonial theory.
Who is Edward Said?
300
The novel is a journal that details the life of its titular character.
What is Juletane?
300
The capital of this country is Port-au-Prince.
What is Haiti?
400
This theory considers vexed cultural-political questions of national and ethnic identity, ‘otherness’, race, imperialism, and language, during and after the colonial periods.
What is Postcolonial Theory?
400
This Gabonese author is known as the country's first novelist.
Who is Angèle Rawiri?
400
This novel is perfect for sports fans as it dribbles several ideas including the idea of home.
What is The Belly of the Atlantic?
400
What is the name of the country highlighed in red?
What is Gabon?
500
A literary and cultural theory elaborated in the 1980s by a small group of Francophone authors from the Caribbean, particularly Martinique and Guadeloupe (Oxford Refrence).
What is Créolité?
500
In her biography on The University of Alabama's Department of Modern Languages & Classics, this scholar's interest is described as being "African women’s writing with a special emphasis on authors from Gabon, Cameroon, and Mali ".
Who is Cheryl Toman?
500
This novel is the perfect Halloween read.
What is I, Tituba?
500
A group of oversees French territories located in the Caribbean which include Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint-Martin.
What are the French Antilles?