YFS volume 144 & 145: Senegalese Transmediations: Literature, New Media, and Audiovisual Cultures.

YFS is pleased to announce the publication of volume 144 & 145, Senegalese Transmediations: Literature, New Media, and Audiovisual Cultures.

In this double volume of Yale French Studies, editors Doyle D. Calhoun and Cheikh Thiam argue for an intentional expansion of what counts as Francophone African writing through the study of cultural production, media practices, and verbal and visual art forms in Senegal and the Senegalese diaspora today. Drawing on contributions from artists, curators, and writers, this volume shifts critical focus away from works and their authors as privileged meaning‑producers to myriad social actors (producers, distributors, consumers) and dispersed networks of production and circulation.
 
The essays gathered here articulate an interdisciplinary call to reenvision and de‑Westernize French studies and media studies. The contributors foreground the work of African scholars, artists, and intellectuals; challenge entrenched disciplinary divides; and highlight critical approaches that are transdisciplinary, translingual, and transnational.

Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse. He is the author of The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire. 

Cheikh Thiam is professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-envisioning the Legacy and Philosophical Relevance of Negritude and Epistemologies from the Global South: Negritude, Modernity and the Idea of Africa.

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