A Review of “Jean-Pierre Jeunet”

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Valérie Orlando is Associate Professor of French, specializing in Francophone literature of Africa and the Caribbean in the French & Italian Department of the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has published two books, Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb (Ohio UP, 1999) and Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood Through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2003). Her most recent book is Francophone Voices of the New Morocco in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition. Orlando has also published articles and book chapters in a wide-range of journals and collected volumes in the fields of Francophone Literature, African Cinema, French Cinema, Women's Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.