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De la part de Jacqueline Couti, l'auteure.Jacqueline Couti &#60;jc8fc@VIRGINIA.EDU&#62;Dear colleagues,I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Discourses from 1806 to 1897.ISBN 978-1781383018 ?  Liverpool University Press ?June 1 2016 ? 224 pages ? £85.00 ? 105,45 €.? $120.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/collections/subject_category-modern-languages_french-and-francophone-studies/products/74458***Description:Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism in the Americas. Couti examines how white Creoles perceived their contributions to French nationalism through the course of the nineteenth century as they portrayed sexualized female bodies and sexual and racial difference to advance their political ideologies. Questioning their exhilarating exoticism and titillating eroticism underscores the ambiguous celebration of the Creole woman as both seductress and an object of lust. She embodies the Caribbean as a space of desire and a political site of contest that reflects colonial, slave and post-slave societies. The under-researched white Creole writers and non-Caribbean authors (such as Lafcadio Hearn) who traveled to and wrote about these islands offer an intriguing gendering and sexualization of colonial and nationalist discourses. Their use of the floating motif of the female body as the nation exposes a cultural cross-pollination, an intense dialogue of political identity between continental France and her Caribbean colonies. Couti suggests that this cross-pollination still persists. Eventually, representations of Creole women?s bodies (white and black) bring two competing conceptions of nationalism into play: a local, bounded, French nationalism against a transatlantic and more fluid nationalism that included the Antilles in a ?greater France.?Reviews:This is an ambitious, original, well informed and richly documented study of a neglected corpus. One of the real strengths of the book is the weaving together of writings by novelists, journalists, historians and travellers, Creoles and non-Creoles alike, to produce an analysis that sheds new light on an important period of Martinican history.---Maeve McCusker, Queen's University, BelfastJacqueline Couti's important book Dangerous Creole Liaisons demonstrates that while a politically turbulent nineteenth-century France was defining itself, in turns, as an empire, a monarchy, and a republic, a corpus of writers in Martinique, mainly white and heretofore little-known, was producing texts that both dialogued with and opposed the prevailing French discourses of nationhood.---Paula Sato, Kent UniversityTable of content:Introduction Chercher la femme: Traces of an Ever-Present Absence1. The (White) Female Creole Body: Bearer of Culture and Cultural Signifier2. Falling from Grace: Creole Gothic, Flawed Femininity, and The Collapse of CivilizationCoda I (Re)writing History: Revival of the Declining Creole Nation and Transatlantic Ties3. Sexualizing and Darkening Black Female Bodies: Whose Imagined Community?4. Colonial Democracy and Fin de Siècle Martinique: The Third Republic and White Creole DissentCoda II Heritage and LegaciesNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex***Thank you for your attention and consideration.Best wishes,Jacqueline CoutiJacqueline Couti, PhD.Associate Professor of French and Francophone StudiesMCLLCCollege of Arts and Sciences1029 Patterson Office TowerUniversity of KentuckyLexington, KY 40506-0027  USA**Recent publications**Dangerous Creole LiaisonsJacqueline CoutiLiverpool University press June 1, 2016)MAÏOTTERoman Martiniquais inéditJenny ManetPrésentation de Jacqueline CoutiAutrement mêmesLITTÉRATURE ROMANS, NOUVELLES MONDE CARAÏBES Martinique***************************************************Catherine Nesci, Chair, Comparative Literature Program&#38; Professor of French Studies, Affiliate in Feminist StudiesProfessional Address:Comparative Literature Program, 4206 Phelps HallUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CA 93106-4130Tel: (1) 805.893-3111 Fax: (1) 805.893-8341http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/*Associate Editor (2011-2015) &#38; Editorial Board (2015-present)Nineteenth-Century French Studies, &#60;http://www.ncfs-journal.org/&#62;*Co-Director, Culture and Conflict Series, DeGruyter&#60;http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/182480&#62;