Archipélies is a new journal edited by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Literatures, Languages, Arts, and Sciences [Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines (CRILLASH)] of the University of the Antilles and Guiana. The journal is described as “an interdisciplinary review in Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Human Sciences which focuses on the Caribbean and American worlds.” The journal “has been conceived above all as an open space of reflection about artistic, literary, linguistic, socio-anthropological, didactical and educational matters in contexts which, being socio-historically affected by the colonization system, the slave trade and/or successive waves of immigration, are distinguished by their multicultural and multilingual patterns.”
Its first issue, edited by Raphaël Confiant, Corinne Mencé-Caster, and Maurice Belrose, focuses on writers from the French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the Americas. As the title indicates—Écriture et marginalité dans la Caraïbe: de Saint John-Perse à Reinaldo Arenas [Writing and Marginality in the Caribbean: From Saint John-Perse to Reinaldo Arenas]—this volume examines a wide range of Caribbean and Latin American writers such as Saint John-Perse, Alejo Carpentier, Salvador Garmendia, and Reinaldo Arenas from various standpoints to explore the poetics of works that may be considered “ex-centric” or marginal, without the pejorative sense of the terms, but rather unique. Eleven contributors delve into “the fertile peripheries, revalued centers, inversions, and transgressions” of these singular texts.
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