Call for Papers: ‘Le masque et la plume’: speculative intertextualities in the works of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart, upstream and downstream

Editors : Kathleen Gyssels and Odile Hamot

The editorial team of RELIEF invites you to submit articles for a special issue on André and Simone Schwarz-Bart, which will appear in December 2021.

Borrowing our title from a famous broadcast series, directed by the literary critic Jérome Garcin who befriended the couple, this issue essentially aims to show various influences on André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. Intertextuality is to be understood here in its broadest sense: we mean to address a wide variety of sources that have left their traces in their novels. The issue will also tend to demonstrate how the Schwarz-Barts influenced later authors. We also accept articles dealing with associative writing and the combined relationship in their co-signed works of fiction, and the question of gender as well as the “anticipation novel” in nexus. Finally, the reception of their posthumous work could be discussed both intra and extra muros, as well as the place of the authors in French-Caribbean theories.

All in all the articles will shed light on how André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. in their un/published manuscripts, masked sources from a wide variety of cultural horizons and literary or artistic traditions (comprising traces of both Jewish and non-Jewish schools of thought). The issue will also demonstrate their imprints on contemporary and new writings of the (French) Caribbean and the Guianas.   

This issue of RELIEF will contain scientific articles in French or English, which take into account one or more of the above-mentioned perspectives. Articles that take a transnational or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

Deadline for proposals: May 1st, 2021. Authors of accepted proposals will need to submit the full article (5000-8000 words) before September 1, 2021.