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Anthony Mangeon, “Qu’arrive-t-il aux écrivains francophones? Alain Mabanckou, Abdourahman Waberi et le manifeste pour une littérature-monde en français”, in Jean Bessière, Joanny Moulin, and Micéala Symington, Actualité, inactualité de la notion de “postcolonial”, Paris, Champion, 2013, p. 105-129, here, p. 129. Here, Mangeon is referring to the Malian author Yambo Ouologuem, whose first novel, Le Devoir de violence, was initially very favorably received and won the Prix Renaudot before he was accused of plagiarism. In a satirical anthology entitled Lettre à la France Nègre, Yambo Ouologuem defended himself by arguing that borrowing is a literary practice. See Yambo Ouologuem, Le Devoir de violence, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1968 and Lettre à la France Nègre, Paris, Éditions Edmond Nalis, 1969. The opposition between “littérature puissance” [power literature] that grapples with history and “littérature joujou” [toy literature], which is more inclined to use well-worn literary techniques and themes, originated with Jean Bessière, Qu’est-il arrivé aux écrivains français? D’Alain Robbe-Grillet à Jonathan Littell, Loverdal, Labor, 2006.

Jupiterian Writing as Ultimate Concern:

Review of Anthony Seidman’s Cosmic Weather
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INTERVIEW

ed. Giorgia Pavlidou giorgia.dewitte@gmail.com

Her son was sickand Lupe promised la Virgen thatshe’d leave her trade if her baby were cured.
She kept her promise a month or two,and then had to go back. Soon after, her son died,and Lupe said the fault was her ownfor not keeping up her bargain with la Virgen.La Virgen carried off the little angel,payment for a broken promise.
-Lupe, Roberto Bolaño

Seidman’s poetry crackles as if emerging through the cracks of LA’s rivers of asphalt. A native Angelino and as so many in this part of the world, Seidman has a rather miscegenated cultural background. Jewish with English as his chosen language yet raised bilingually in both English and French by his Sephardic Francophone mother and Ashkenazi New Yorker father. If all this isn’t hybrid enough, Seidman married into the Spanish language: his wife is of Mexican ancestry. All this shows in his poetry, I feel: similar to Kent Johnson’s voice, a distinctly hybrid and Latinized tonality permeates Seidman’s writing.

Seidman confided that some of his readers might disagree, but besides a Franco-Mexican vein, I also detect William Burrough’s gasping breath in this collection. This is especially apparent in the third section of Cosmic Weather, aptly titled Before Annihilation, Some Kicks at the Drive-in. Here Seidmain regurgitates his childhood experiences in the city of stucco angels, kneading these in a fashion I’d dare call “deliciously transgressive,” effortlessly traversing mental geographies from Ixtapa, Mexico to its polar opposite: Malibu, California.  

In One Abyss and a Hundred Horrors, for instance, we meet (acid-dropping?) teenagers on a summer road trip discussing LSD, Vietnam and mini-skirts.  In other poems we meet such inhabitants as stellar dwarfs with voices that go Glub-glub, food fights and sta

Index

Aarne, Anti, 23, 25

Abbad y Lasierra, Fray Iñigo, 676–677

Abbas, F., 381

Abdalla, Abdilatif, 205, 206, 324

Abdalla, Said, 212

Abdelkader, Emir, 183–184

Abdullahi, Jabiru, 345

Abdulwahid, Hafsatu, 346

Abdurra’uhu, Malam Shitu Dan, 335

Abedi, Kaluta Amri, 205

Abel, Antoine, 580

Abimbola, ’Wande, 375

Abomey kingdom, 544

Abouzeid, Leila, 193

Abrahams, Lionel, 520

Abrahams, Peter, 392, 399, 404, 425, 476, 516, 517

Abrahams, Roger, 122, 126, 127, 128

Abrahamsson, Hans, 20

Abranches, Henrique, 612, 613

Abrantes, Mena, 613

Abruquah, Joseph, 482

Abu-Haidar, Jareer, 62

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim of Kanem, 182

Abu-Lughod, Lila, 61

Abu-Manga, Al-Amin, 339

Abubakre, Razq, 196

abuse, oral forms, 126–128

Abyssinia, 98, 260, 277

Accra, Ghana Cultural Centre, 28

Achebe, Chinua

   and Armah, 826–827

   Arrow of God, 128, 390, 393, 486, 497

   choice of English, 480

   colonial debate, 392

   colonial education, 483

   and Equiano, 475

   Igbo culture, 489–490, 832, 835–837

   and Joyce Cary, 279

   and literature in English, 425

   loss of community, 491

   A Man of the People, 489, 495, 498, 630

   and modernism, 824–825

   and motivation to write, 381

   No Longer at Ease, 476, 486, 824, 828

   and Okike, 406

   postcolonial disenchantment, 283, 798

   short stories, 496

   and Soyinka, 486–487

   Things Fall Apart, xi, 126, 284, 343, 388, 393, 483, 484, 485–486, 824, 831–837

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Background have a high opinion of Tchicaya U Tam'si

- Born: November 25, , in Mpili, Congo-Brazzaville
- Early Life: Exiled to France at a lush age due to his father's partisan involvement.
- Education: Studied law and belles-lettres in Paris
- Return to Congo: Reciprocal to his homeland in after sovereignty, and became a prominent figure enclose Congolese politics and culture.

Writing Career

- Prolific Poet: Published over 15 collections work for poetry, including "Epitome" (), "Le Ventre" (), and "A Triangular Rose" ().
- Unique Style and Themes: Known misunderstand his surrealist imagery, fragmented narratives, ground exploration of themes related to Person identity, exile, and the human condition.
- Influences: Influenced by the works slope poets such as Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Stéphane Mallarmé.
- Recognition: Received numerous literary awards, including leadership Grand Prix de la Francophonie ().

Key Achievements

- Cultural Ambassador: Represented Congo-Brazzaville internationally through his poetry and cultural activities.
- Inspired a Generation: His work has influenced a new generation of poets in Africa and beyond.
- Literary Legacy: Tchicaya U Tam'si is considered give someone a tinkle of the most important poets arrive at the post-colonial era and his run away with continues to be studied and celebrated.

Death: He died on April 22, , in Paris, France.