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Sens et prsence du sujet potique. La posie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980, Michael Brophy et Mary Gallagher (eds) (2006) Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 368 pp., ISBN: 90-420-2039-3 (pbk), 74, US$100 Calixthe Beyala, Performances of Migration, Nicki Hitchcott (2006) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 190 pp., ISBN 1-84631-028-8 (hbk), $70 Littratures d'mergence et mondialisation, Sonia Faessel and Michel Prez (eds) (2004) Paris: Editions In Press, 376 pp., ISBN 2-84835-055-5 (Pbk) 32 Les crivaines francophones en libert: Farida Belghoul, Maryse Cond, Assia Djebar, Calixthe Beyala, Martine Fernandes, preface Michel Laronde (2007) Paris: L'Harmattan, 290 pp., ISBN 987-2-296-02837-1 (pbk), 22.50 Franais aux Etats-Unis (19902005): Migration, langue, culture et conomie, Franois Lagarde (2007) Bern: Peter Lang, 269 pp., ISBN 978-3-03911-293-7 (pbk), 43/30.10/US$51.95 Assia Djebar: Out of Africa, Jane Hiddleston (2006) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 215 pp., ISBN 1-84631-031-8 (hbk), 40 Francophonie Littraire du Sud: un divers singulier, Afrique, Maghreb, Antilles, Najib Redouane (ed.) (2006) L'Harmattan, 286 pp., ISBN 2-296-01246-9 (pbk), 24.50 Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, Catherine A. Reinhardt (2006) New York: Berghahn Books, 202 pp., ISBN 1-84545-079-5 (hbk), $70 Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror and Memory, Jim House and Neil MacMaster (2006) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 375 pp., ISBN 0-19-924725-0, (hbk), 60 Disorienting Vision: Rereading Stereotypes in French Orientalist Texts and Images, Inge E. Boer (2004) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 209 pp., ISBN 90-420-1723-6 (pbk), 45/US$63 Postcolonial Echoes and Evocations: The Intertextual Appeal of Maryse Cond, Derek O'Regan (2007) Switzerland: Peter Lang, 329 pp., ISBN 3-03910-578-7, (pbk), 54.30/38 La Francophonie: Esthtique et dynamique de la liberation, edited by Ibrahim H. Badr (2007) New York: Peter Lang, 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-8204-6120-0 (hbk), 35 France and the Maghreb. Performative Encounters, Mireille Rosello (2005) Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 231 pp., ISBN 0-8130-2853-1 (hbk), $65 Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain, Anne Judge (2007) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 265 pp., ISBN 1-4039-4983-2 (hbk), 50 The Story of French, Jean-Benot Nadeau and Julie Barlow (2006) Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 483 pp., ISBN 978-0-676-97734-9, (hbk), $36 Kourouma: Les Soleils des Indpendances, O'Flaherty, Patricia (2007) Glasgow: University of Glasgow French & German Publications, 94 pp., ISBN 0-85261-8131 (pbk), 5.50 From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person, Rachel Gabara (2006) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 213 pp., ISBN 0-8047-5356-3 (hbk), 33.95 Segalen: Stles, Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature 53, Yvonne Y. Hsieh (2007) Glasgow: University of Glasgow French & German Publications, 116 pp., ISBN 0-85261-811-5 (pbk), 5.50 Against the Postcolonial: Francophone Writers at the Ends of French Empire, Richard Serrano (2005) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 181 pp., ISBN 978-0-7391-2029-8 (pbk), $25.95? Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism, Dominic Thomas (2007) Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 305 pp., ISBN 0-253-34821-8 (pbk), $27.95 La Conqute des lettres au Qubec (17591799). Anthologie, sous la direction de Bernard Andrs (2007) Qubec: Les Presses de l'Universit Laval, 740 pp., ISBN-13 978-2-7637-8496-0 (pbk), $CAN49. Envoyer et recevoir. Lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones, Yves Frenette, Marcel Martel & John Willis (eds) (2006) Quebec: Presses de l'Universit Laval, 298 pp., ISBN 2-7637-8391-0 (pbk), Cdn$39 Intimate Strangers: The Letters of Margaret Laurence & Gabrielle Roy, Paul G. Socken (ed.) (2004) Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 120 pp., ISBN 0-88755-177-7 (hbk), $16.95/9.95 Les Premiers Ministres du Canada de MacDonald Trudeau, sous la direction de Ral Blanger et Ramsay Cook (2007) Qubec: Les Presses de l'Universit Laval, 526 pp., ISBN 978-2-7637-8422-9 (pbk), $40 Les dictionnaires Larousse, Gense et Rvolution, Monique C. Cormier et Aline Francoeur (eds) (2005) Montral: Presse de l'Universit de Montral, 326 pp., ISBN 2-7606-1991-5 (pbk), $24.95