Scholars@Duke
Annette Joseph-Gabriel

Annette Joseph-Gabriel

John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies

Selected Publications

New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation

Journal Article Signs · June 1, 2022 This roundtable stems from a Zoom event, “New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies (a Book Conversation)” with authors Tiffany N. Florvil, Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Katherine M. Marino, Robin Mitchell, and Jacqueline-Bethel Tch ... Full text Cite

Beyond Tragedy Black Girlhood in Marlon James’s the Book of Night Women and Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme

Journal Article Meridians · April 1, 2022 This study explores the relationship between past and future in neo-slave narratives that feature Black girl protagonists. Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women tells the story of six enslaved women and their youngest recruit Lilith, as they organize a sl ... Full text Cite

World War II and the Rise of Feminism in Martinique

Journal Article French Colonial History · May 1, 2021 AbstractL’idée que le féminisme antillais est un phénomène du 21ème siècle et qu’il est encore à ses débuts est répandue. Néanmoins, plusieurs groupes féminins ont mené des actions féministes bien avant. Lor ... Full text Cite

Reimagining Liberation How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

Book · December 30, 2019 Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. ... Cite

Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation

Journal Article Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism · July 1, 2016 Suzanne Césaire's essays in Tropiques make an important intervention in imagining a new Martinican and ultimately Pan-Caribbean identity during World War II. This study examines Césaire's joint politics and poetics of liberation in the context of d ... Full text Cite