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University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition
Jennifer Anne
Boittin
Professor of French, Francophone Studies, and History, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Book Title: Le Grand Camouflage: Ecrits de dissidence
Author: Suzanne Césaire
Selection Statement:
John M. Merriman, my advisor, and Tyler Stovall, a mentor, left us just before I published my second (promotion) book. Our library had their books, but not yet Suzanne Roussi Césaire's. A Martinican intellectual, her censored dissident writings shaped my dissertation and first book. She remains unrecognized, like many whose histories I research. Her poetic refusals of injustice started me on a path, lit by John and Tyler, of listening to and sharing obscured voices in archives. Merci.
Year: 2023