Sites
on Francophone
Cultures and Literatures
compiled
by C. Perry at the
University of Notre Dame
(checked
and updated January 2007; newly added links appear at the top of each category)
Please note that the
division into French and Francophone literatures is often artificial, but
necessary for these long web pages.
Francophone
Cultural and Literary Sites
- List of Francophone links on the website of the Conseil International d'Études Francophones (CIÉF)
- Ile en Ile -- a site promoting cultural and informational resources on insular francophone
cultures
- 20 March 2007, international
celebration of Francophonie
- Publisher
L'Harmattan, in Paris,
specializing in critical studies of Francophonie
- L'Afrique
francophone at CUNY
- ERELLIF
-- U. of Rennes' Équipe de Recherche sur la Diversité
Littéraire et Linguistique du Monde Francophone
- Organisation
Internationale de la Francophonie -- a central site on Francophone
cultures and events
- The
journal Nouvelles Études Francophones ,
on all aspects of the literary Francophone world
- Women
of the Left Bank -- a site listing writers and artists in early 20th-century
Paris [NB: last update dated 1999]
- CeSLeBeLF
-- Centre d'Études sur la Littérature Belge de Langue Française
- Africultures
-- a site on Francophone cultures in Africa
- Planète
Afrique, a site offering cultural information
and beautiful e-cards
- A complete,
detailed site on African
literature by women
- Revues
plurielles -- a site listing journals in African Francophone studies
- Limag
-- the most comprehensive site on North-African literatures
- An introduction
to North-African literatures,
by the Maghreb Studies Group
- Expressions
Maghrébines -- a new journal on the arts in the Maghreb
- A site
dedicated to Algerian literature
- A site
in English with pictures
of Algeria from the 19th through the 20th centuries
- Wled
Wahrane, "The Children of Oran" -- a new Algerian site,
with multiple links
- Moroccan
news links (human rights, democracy, some
literature)
- La Marocaine -- a site on Moroccan women
- Wafin -- a site for Moroccans in the United States
- L'ÎLE -- French Canadian literature (Centre de Documentation Virtuelle sur la
Littérature Québécoise)
- The
Union of French Canadian authors
- Bibliothèque
électronique du Québec -- with many full texts
- Visages
de l'écriture -- a collection of photographs of writers from
Québec
- A comprehensive site on the Arab
world and its cultures
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Francophone
Authors (very incomplete, in process)
- First, see links on the CIÉF's web site
- Maghrebian
stories by nomadic writer Isabelle
Eberhardt
- Isabelle Eberhardt
on the Limag
site
- Visit
Eberhardt's adopted land: Algeria
from the 19th through the 20th centuries
- English-born
French poet and novelist Renée
Vivien (1877-1909)
- American-born
French writer Natalie Clifford Barney
- A complete
site on the Canadian poet and novelist Anne
Hébert
- Canadian
poet and novelist Nicole
Brossard
- Canadian
writer Louise
Maheux-Forcier
- Canadian
poet Huguette Bertrand's original, self-designed Espace
poétique
- Agota
Kristof, writer
of Hungarian origins, now living in Switzerland
- Quirky
Belgian writer Amélie
Nothomb, with video interviews
- Emmanuel
Robles, Algerian and Spanish novelist
- Moroccan
author Tahar Ben Jelloun, 1987
winner of the Prix Goncourt
- Moroccan
author Abdelhak
Serhane [NB: 1999 pages]
- Algerian
novelist Yasmina
Khadra (aka Mohammed Moulessehoul)
- Algerian
novelist Assia Djebar
- Algerian
novelist Malika
Mokeddem
- Algerian
novelist Mohammed Dib
- The witness
account La Prisonnière,
by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
(page designed for Malika Oufkir's visit to Notre Dame in April 2001, with
links)
- Discover
the nomadic writings of Abdourahman Waberi,
from Djibouti
- Calixthe
Beyala, from Cameroon
- Dramatist,
singer, dancer, painter Werewere
Liking, from Cameroon, now in Ivory Coast
- Québec poet Huguette
Bertrand's Espace
poétique, with numerous links to sites on other writers
- Discover another Canadian
poet, Paule Doyon
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