Book review: Reimagining liberation: how black women transformed citizenship in the French empire by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

Hiraide, Lydia Ayame (2021) Book review: Reimagining liberation: how black women transformed citizenship in the French empire by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel. LSE Review of Books (01 Mar 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel examines the anticolonial work of seven black women – Suzanne Césaire, Jeanne Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Aoua Kéita, Andrée Blouin and Eslanda Robeson – who created and practised alternative visions of liberation and identity in resisting colonialism and challenging dominant narratives of national belonging in France. Reviewing the book to mark the start of Women’s History Month in March, Lydia Ayame Hiraide welcome this rich and insightful study for not only showing us how black women have reimagined liberation throughout twentieth-century anticolonialism, but also that this spirit of decolonial resistance continues to burn bright. Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel. University of Illinois Press. 2020.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) D History General and Old World > DC France H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	04 May 2021 13:00
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:02
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110071

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