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    Des vies de combat

    Femmes, noires et libres

    October 14, 2020
    Essay
    151 × 210 mm
    9782378801632
    978-2-3788-0163-2
    Audrey Célestine, Des vies de combat
    Audrey Célestine, Des vies de combat

    Des vies de femmes célèbres ou méconnues à la conquête de leur liberté. On connaît Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks ou Nina Simone. Mais peut-être moins Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde ou Darling Légitimus… Des Antilles aux États-Unis, en passant par Paris, ce livre retrace la vie de ces femmes, noires, libres, inspirantes. Des combattantes parfois méconnues, oubliées. De la fin de l’esclavage jusqu’à aujourd’hui, l’historienne Audrey Célestine dresse plus de 60 portraits d’héroïnes ou d’inconnues. Refusant d’être réduites à la couleur de leur peau, elles ont chanté, créé, écrit… Loin d’être des passagères clandestines de l’histoire, elles se sont battues contre l’asservissement, la ségrégation, le racisme. Aujourd’hui, leurs héritières poursuivent et réinventent leurs luttes.

    The author

    Audrey Célestine was born in Dunkerque and grew up in Martinique where her family (re?)settled in the mid-1980s. At the time, the city of Fort-de-France was implementing an ambitious cultural policy and for a few dozen francs a year, the city’s children could take theater, music or dance classes. Growing up in the shade of the “cursed fig tree” or “Manman dlo”, learning that the Caribbean and Africa are lands of authors, creators and artists: this marks a life trajectory. She crossed the Atlantic several times, at the age of 18 to attend a preparatory school in Paris and to study at Sciences Po, and at the age of 20 to spend a year in the United States, where she returned several times to conduct fieldwork and teach. Audrey Célestine is now a lecturer at the University of Lille. Her research is at the crossroads of history, sociology, and political science and focuses on various aspects of the construction of individual and collective identities in France, the United States and the Caribbean. She alternates between writing academic works and essays between social sciences and intimate narratives.

    October 14, 2020
    Essay
    151 × 210 mm
    9782378801632
    978-2-3788-0163-2