!!Charles Forsdick - Publications

Charles Forsdick's publications include Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2000), Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures (Oxford University Press, 2005), Ella Maillart, ‘Oasis interdites’ (Zoé, 2008) and (with Christian Hogsbjerg) Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Pluto, 2017). He has also edited and co-edited a number of volumes, including Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (Arnold, 2003), Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empire (Liverpool University Press, 2008), Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde (Liverpool University Press, 2010), Travel Writing: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2012), Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013), The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke University Press, 2017), Keywords for Travel Writing Studies (Anthem Press, 2019), Georges Perec’s Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces (UCL Press, 2019) and Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Liverpool University Press, 2020).
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* Charles Forsdick (2008) Ella Maillart, “Oasis interdites”. Le Cippe. Zoé, Geneva
* Forsdick, C, Basu, F, and Shilton, S (2006) New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literature in French: Genre, History, Theory. Travel Writing Across the Disciplines. Peter Lang, New York
* Forsdick, C (2005) Travel in twentieth-century French and Francophone cultures : the persistence of diversity. Oxford University Press, Oxford
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__Book Contributions__  
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* Charles Forsdick. (2008) ‘Gérard Macé, exote’. In: Dominique Viart ed(s). Gérard Macé, la « pensée littéraire ». Paris, Éditions des Lettres Modernes.
* Charles Forsdick. (2008) ‘Foreword’. In: Lieve Spaas (author) ed(s). How Belgium Colonized the Mind of the Congo: Seeking the Memory of an African People. Lewiston, Edwin Mellen.
* Charles Forsdick. (2008) ‘Travel, Tourism, Migration: Between the English Channel and ‘la Manche’. In: Christine Geoffroy and Richard Sibley ed(s). Going Abroad: Travel, Tourism, Migration. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholar’s Press.
* Charles Forsdick. (2008) ‘Situating Human Zoos’. In: Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boetsch, Eric Deroo, Sandrine Lemaire and Charles Forsdick ed(s). Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empire. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press.
* Charles Forsdick. (2008) ‘Postcolonial Toussaint’. In: Martin Munro and Elizabeth Hackett-Walcott ed(s). Echoes of the Haitian Revolution, 1804-2004. St Augustine, University of the West Indies Press.
* Charles Forsdick. (2007) ‘Sang sang ô sang noir de mes frères: representing the colonial massacre in Francophone literature and culture’. In: Lorna Milne ed(s). Representations of Violence, Culture and Identity in the Francophone Ex-Colonies . Bern, Peter Lang.
* Charles Forsdick. (2007) The French Empire. In: John McLeod ed(s). Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. London, Routledge.
* Forsdick C. (2007) Camus and Sartre. In: Hughes, E ed(s). Cambridge Companion to Camus. Cambridge, CUP.
* Charles Forsdick. (2007) Exoticism. In: Gaeton Brulotte and John Phillips ed(s). Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. London, Routledge.
* Forsdick C. (2006) The travelling revolutionary: translations of Toussaint Louverture. In: Munro, M and Hackett-Walcott, E ed(s). Re-interpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks. Saint Augustine, UWI Press.
* c forsdick. (2005) Projected Journeys. In: Johnnie Gratton and Michael Sheringham ed(s). Projects and Experiments in Twentieth-Century French Culture. Oxford, Berghahn.
* c forsdick. (2005) De la plume comme des pieds: essaysism as a peripatetic genre¿. In: Charles Forsdick and Andrew Stafford ed(s). The Modern Francophone Essay: Movement, Instability, Performance. Bern, Peter Lang Publishing.
* c forsdick. (2005) Exoticizing the Domestique : Bécassine, Brittany and the Beauty of the Dead. In: Charles Forsdick, Laurence Grove, Libbie McQuillan ed(s). The Francophone Bande Dessinée. Amsterdam, Rodopi.
* c forsdick. (2005) Victor Segalen and Kenneth White¿, in. In: Gavin Bowd, Charles Forsdick, Norman Bissell ed(s). Grounding a World: Essays on the Work of Kenneth White . Glasgow, Alba Publications.
* c forsdick. (2004) 'Finding a Way Out: Nicolas Bouvier and Contemporary Travel Literature in French'. In: Margaret Topping ed(s). Eastern Voyages, Western Visions: French Writing and Painting of the Orient. Bern, Peter Lang Publishing.
* c forsdick. (2003) Transatlantic displacement and the problematics of space', in Mary Gallagher (ed.), Ici-Là: Place and Displacement in Caribbean Writing in French. In: Mary Gallagher ed(s). Ici-Là: Place and Displacement in Caribbean Writing in French. Amsterdam, Rodopi.
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__Books (Edited)__ 
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* Charles Forsdick and David Murphy . ed(s) (2009) Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool
* Charles Forsdick, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Martin Munro. ed(s) (2008) Haiti Now!. Small Axe, 27 (2008) Indiana University Press, Bloomington
* Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boetsch, Eric Deroo, Sandrine Lemaire and Charles Forsdick. ed(s) (2008) Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empire. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool
* Bill Marshall. ed(s) (2005) France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. abc-clio, new york
* Gavin Bowd, Charles Forsdick, Norman Bissell . ed(s) (2005) Grounding a World: Essays on the Work of Kenneth White. Alba Publications, Glasgow
* Charles Forsdick and Andrew Stafford. ed(s) (2005) The Modern Francophone Essay: Movement, Instability, Performance. Peter Lang, Bern
* Charles Forsdick, Laurence Grove and Elizabeth McQuillan. ed(s) (2005) The Francophone Bande Dessinée. Rodopi, Amsterdam
* c forsdick and david murphy. ed(s) (2003) Francophone Postcolonial Studies: a Critical Introduction. Arnold, London
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__Journal Articles__  
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* Charles Forsdick (2008) ‘Haiti and Departmentalization: the spectral presence of Toussaint Louverture’. International Journal of Francophone Studies vol 11 issue 3 
* Charles Forsdick (2008) ‘Interpreting 2004: Politics, Memory, Scholarship'. Small Axe vol 27 pp 1-13
* Charles Forsdick (2007) Colonial History, Postcolonial Memory: Contemporary Perspectives. Francophone Postcolonial Studies 
* Forsdick C (2007) Situating Haiti : on some early nineteenth-century representations of Toussaint Louverture. IJFS vol 10 issue 1 pp 17-34
* Charles Forsdick (2007) Toussaint at the Crossroads. Small Axe 
* Forsdick C (2006) Postface: Etudes littéraires francophones et notion de postcolonial. FPS vol 4 issue 2 
* c forsdick (2006) '(In)connaissance de l'Asie': Barthes and Bouvier, China and Japan'. Modern and Contemporary France vol 14 issue 1 pp 63-77
* c forsdick (2005) The Black Jacobin in Paris. Journal of Romance Studies vol 5 issue 3 pp 9-24
* c forsdick (2005) Between ¿French¿ and ¿Francophone¿: French Studies and the postcolonial turn. French Studies vol 59 issue 4 pp 523-30
* c forsdick (2005) Des études françaises aux études francophones: le cas britannique. Cahiers de l¿Association internationale des études françaises pp 329-40
* c forsdick (2001) 'Direction les oubliettes de l'histoire': witnessing the past in the contemporary French polar. French Cultural Studies vol 12 issue 3 pp 333-350
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__Research Awards: Principal Investigator __ 
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* 'Descendre dans l'intraduisible, en eprouver la secousse': Bouvier and Barthes in China and Japan.
* Exoticism: from theory to practice - Victor Segalen's Essai sur l'exotisme and Equipée.
* New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literature in France.
* International colloquium for 20th/21st century French studies: 'French in/and other disciplines'.
* Exoticism, hybridity and the persistence of Polynesia.
* The twentieth-century review in French. 
* Toussaint Louverture as transnational figure: representations of the Haitian revolutionary in world literature and history.
* The travelling revolutionary: twentieth-century translations of Toussaint Louverture.
* Toussaint Louverture as transnational figure: representations of the Haitian revolutionary in world literature and history. 
* Phillip Leverhulme Prize 
* Forbidden Journeys: The Travel Writing of Ella Maillart 
* 'The Bloody Writing is for ever torn': Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade 
* Critical edition of codex MP4
* 1001 Re-tellings: Emily Ruete’s Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin in a literary context
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