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GTKE: Echos-Monde in the Caribbean, a conversation with Valerie Loichot
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| Venue: | Koubec Center-2705 SW 3rd Street—Miami, FL 33137 |
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During TOUT-MONDE-FESTIVAL, the Caribbean Contemporary Art Festival in Miami (March 13-17, 2019), “Echo-Natures”, The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, through its grant 'Getting to Know Europe' is partnering with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA, the France Florida Foundation for the Arts and the French Arts Associates and co-organize a conversation on Echos-Monde in the Caribbean with Valerie Loichot, professor of French and English and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Emory University, and Author of “Entours d’Edouard Glissant; and Fanny Glissant, Film director and producer.
Moderator: Vanessa Selk, Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in the U.S.
Valérie Loichot is professor of French and English and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 from Louisiana State University where she studied with Martinican poet and theorist Edouard Glissant. As an Americanist in the hemispheric sense of the word, she focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean and of the U.S. South. Loichot is the author of three books: Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literatures of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (University of Virginia Press, 2007), The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and Water Graves: Poetry and Art of the Unritual in the Caribbean and the US South (Forthcoming, December 2019, Umoversity of Virginia Press). She has also authored articles on Caribbean literature and culture, Southern literature, New Orleans, creolization theory, transatlantic studies, hurricanes and ecocriticism, feminism and exile, and food studies published in journals including Callaloo, French Cultural Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, The French Review, The International Journal of Francophone Studies, and Small Axe. Her edited book on Edouard Glissant (Entours d'Edouard Glissant) was published with La Revue des Sciences humaines (2013).
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This event is free and open to the Public and all FIU Students
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A tribute to Edouard Glissant
The Tout-Monde Festival aspires to embody the spirit and philosophy of the “Tout-Monde” – the union of territories, cultures and individuals with multiples roots in one “Whole World” –, a concept introduced by Martinican writer, poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant (1928-2011) in his book Traité du Tout-Monde.
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TOUT-MONDE-FESTIVAL is an initiative of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA, in close partnership with the France Florida Foundation for the Arts. The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, through its grant 'Getting to Know Europe' is partnering with the French Embassy in the USA.
This is the second edition of the Tout-Monde Festival, the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Festival in Miami, dedicated to promoting insular, continental and diasporic Caribbean contemporary artists from all fields: visual art and performing arts – including dance, music and theater – as well as film and academics, with a goal to deconstruct stereotypes and unite territories and individuals with different roots in one “All-World”, in the spirit of the father of the concept of the “Tout-Monde”, the Martinican poet, philosopher and author Edouard Glissant (1928-2011).
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