North America, Africa, and the Caribbean
Our examination of the French-speaking world outside of France includes cross-disciplinary examinations of historical transmission. Questions of colonization, diaspora, immigration, identity, poverty, and exoticism offer different areas of investigation. Our studies of "French outside France"--that is, texts produced in French outside Europe and also cultural responses to the France and the French influence--are informed through postcolonial studies, transatlantic studies, and Mediterranean studies.