Reviews

Abstract La variation lexicale des français: dictionnaires, base de données, corpus, Annick Farina and Valeria Zotti (eds) (2014) Paris: Editions Champion, 368 pp., ISBN: 9782745328762, p/bk, €60 Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean, Louise Hardwick (2013) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 248 pp., ISBN: 9781846318412 The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb, Claudia Esposito (2013) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 183 pp., ISBN: 9780739168219, h/bk, £49.95 Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas, Bart Miller (2014) Amsterdam, NY: Editions Rodopi B.V., 261 pp., ISBN: 9789042038264, p/bk, $77.00 Francophone Afropean Literatures, Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas (eds) (2014) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, vi + 232 pp., ISBN: 9781781380345, h/bk, £75 Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice, & Race in Colonial Algeria, Patricia M. E. Lorcin (2014) Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, xxii+ 363 pp., ISBN: 9780803249714, p/bk, $30.00 Narratives of the French Empire: Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present, Kate Marsh (2013) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 132 pp., ISBN: 9780739176566, £49.95 Caribbean Critique Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant, Nick Nesbitt (2013) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, xiv + 346 pp., ISBN: 9781846318665, cased Les Commandeurs de l’aube, Joëlle Verdol (2013) Paris: L’Harmattan, 677 pp., ISBN: 9782343010526, 57 € Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic, Edwin C. Hill (2013) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, X+178 pp., ISBN: 9781421410593, h/bk, $39.95 Éthique et Rupture Bouraouïennes, Beggar Abderrahman (2012) Toronto: CMC Éditions, Centre Canada-Méditerranée, Université York, collection ‘Mosaïque’, 188 pp. EAN13: 9782981202215, p/bk, 49$ Interventions autobiographiques des femmes du Maghreb: Écriture de contestation, Farhoud Samira (2013) New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford and Wien: Peter Lang Publishing, coll. ‘Francophone Cultures and Literatures’, vol. 62, 189 pp., ISBN: 9781433120541, h/bk, SFR 75.00/€* 66.70/€** 68.50/€ 62.30/£ 50.00/US$ 80.95 Problématique de l’identité littéraire: Devenir écrivain français, Matei Cristina-Ioana, Andreï Makine, Vassilis Alexakis, Milan Kundera and Amin Maalouf (2011) Préface Jean-Bernard Vray et Alexandru C˘alinescu, Ias¸i: Casa Editorial ˘a Demiurg, coll. ‘Hexagon’ 36, 285 pp., ISBN: 9789731522425, p/bk, Prix: inconnu Reimagining the Caribbean: Conversations among the Creole, English, French and Spanish Caribbean, Valérie K. Orlando and Sandra Messinger Cypess (eds) (2014) London: Lexington Books, 189 pp., ISBN: 9780739194195, h/bk, £49.95