Écritures de femmes racialisées : Vers une lecture antiraciste

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AbstractThis article examines three texts written by Black women and/or racialized creators writing in French: Trop noire pour être française (2017) by Isabelle Boni-Claverie, Je suis quelqu’un (2018) by Aminata Aidara and Chair Piment (2002) by Gisèle Pineau. Together, these texts interrogate historical and contemporary forms of racism and sexism embedded in the French language and search for ways to humanize the experience of characters generally denigrated by colonizing French white supremacy.Keywords: Antiracist literary writingracialized women writing in FrenchFrench whitenessIsabelle Boni-ClaverieAminata AidaraGisèle Pineau Notes1 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000037090124/2019-03-182 https://www.sbctc.edu/resources/documents/colleges-staff/programs-services/administrators-of-color/central-frames-colorblind-racism-sum2019.pdfAdditional informationNotes on contributorsFrédérique ChevillotFrédérique Chevillot is Professor at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on contemporary novels and short stories by women authors writing in French. She is the author of La Réouverture du texte (Anma Libri), and, co-edited with Anna Norris, Des Femmes écrivent la guerre (Complicités, 2007). She is co-editor of Rebelles et criminelles chez les écrivaines d’expression française, a volume on literary representations of rebellious and criminal women by female authors (Rodopi, 2013). She also collaborated with Elizabeth Hall, Eilene Hoft-March, and Maribel Peñalver Vicea, on an editorial volume titled Cixous After 2000/Cixous depuis 2000, published with Rodopi/Brill (2017).