Editors’ Introduction

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Roger Célestin

Roger Célestin is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature and co-chair of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut. He has written on travel literature, detective fiction, film, and translation, among other topics. He is the author of From Cannibals to Radicals. Figures and Limits of Exoticism (U of Minnesota P, 1996), co-editor (with Isabelle de Courtivron and Eliane DalMolin) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980–2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2002), and co-author (with Eliane DalMolin) of France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis (Palgrave, 2007).

Eliane DalMolin

Eliane DalMolin is a Professor of French and co-chair of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has published numerous articles on modern and contemporary poetry and on cinema and is the author of Cutting the Body: Representing Women in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis (U of Michigan P, 2000), co-editor (with Roger Célestin and Isabelle de Courtivron) of Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Politics, and Culture in France, 1980–2001 (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2002), and co-author (with Roger Célestin) of France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis (Palgrave, 2007).

Jean-Pierre Karegeye

Jean-Pierre Karegeye earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated in various disciplines such as Literature, African Linguistics, Philosophy, and Social Ethics, his areas of research and teaching are mostly based on African Francophone Literature in dialogue with the mentioned fields and disciplines. His work on Genocide and Child soldiering focuses on testimony and explores both fictional and non-fictional narratives. He has published and edited several works including “Religion, Politics, and Genocide in Rwanda” in Andrea Bieler, Christian Bingel, Hans-Martin Gutmann (Eds.), After Violence (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011), “Femmes témoins: la prise de parole” in Les Temps Modernes (n° 680, Gallimard, 2014), L'Eglise catholique à l’épreuve du génocide (Africana, 2000), Récits du génocide, traversée de la mémoire (Espace de Libertés, 2009), Children in Armed Conflicts (Peace Review, 24.3, Fall 2012),  and Lieux discursifs du génocide au Rwanda (Présence Francophone, 2015).