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Zellige

logoZellige

15, rue des Prés
Lunay
77171 Léchelle
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 64 00 86 92
www.zellige.eu

Zellige: enamel-coated chips of terra cotta set into plaster, used to decorate monuments and home interiors in the Arab world.


With a firmly international focus, and a deliberately diversified catalogue (novels, essays and albums), Zellige aims to develop close partnerships with publishers, bookstore managers and distributors in the French-speaking world. So the works can be published simultaneously in all the countries involved. And at prices tailored to local buying power.
Steering clear of the centralising mindset, programmes are not systematically initiated in France. Out of the thirty titles featuring in this catalogue, half have originated from one of Zellige’s partners, in Algeria, Haiti, Morocco, Tunisia, Belgium or Lebanon.
Furthermore, Zellige has expanded into graphic design and communications, with customers sometimes hailing from other walks of life than publishing.

As for the publishing house’s name, recalling mosaics, it expresses its sharing, partnership-focussed, open attitude.

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Algérie, Maroc, histoires parallèles, destins croisés

Benjamin STORA À quand un couple algéro-marocain, indispensable moteur d’un Maghreb des régions ? Une telle perspective réclame, de ces deux pays (...)

Amour, Colère et Folie

Marie VIEUX-CHAUVET Un chef d’œuvre de la littérature haïtienne signé d’un écrivain qui l’a payé cher (Le Magazine littéraire) Édité initialement en (...)

Kalila et Dimna

Ibn AL-MUQAFFA Une nouvelle traduction, fluide et agréable de ce classique de la littérature arabe (Le Temps, Genève) Étudié dans toutes les (...)

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Yomad

logoYomad

28, rue Dayat Aoua
Agdal
10000 Rabat
Morocco
Tél: (+212) 53 7 68 64 30
www.yomadeditions.net

Yomad was founded end 1998. It is a small publishing house specialising in books for young people. Its means are tiny but its ambition is huge, stemming from the dearth of local creation witnessed in literature for young people. It is true that the children’s departments in bookstores are crammed with books from elsewhere, books filled with references which are completely foreign to the culture and environment of Moroccan children. Whereas children need to set down roots in order to forge their identity and live in harmony with society. This is what underpins Yomad.
An initial collection, “mini Yemma”, of three books by Driss Chraïbi and a second collection, entitled “Yemma”, comprising two books by Habib Mazini were published in March 1999. With Driss Chraïbi as the star author in the catalogue, Yomad was able to get noticed quickly. Next came Zaïna et le fils du vent which proved highly popular among young readers. It received the high-school children’s Grand Atlas 2001 award. Further to requests from young readers, a second volume was published: Le défi de Zaïna.

The Yomad catalogue now features 10 collections comprising 40 books. The collections “Hikayat”, “Mini-Yemma”, “Mini-Yemma novels”, “Yemma”, “Contes du Maroc” (Moroccan folk tales), “Rêves d’enfants” (Children’s dreams), “Yemma junior”, “Raconte-moi l’Histoire” (Tell me a story), “Mini-plume” and “Nostalgie”.

Heavyweights in Moroccan and Algerian literature have contributed several of their own writings, including Driss Chraïbi, Fouad Laroui, Abdellatif Laâbi, Abdelhak Serhane, Zakya Daoud, Mohamed Dib and other less well-known authors such as Jocelyne Laâbi, Habib Mazini, Mehdi Degraincourt, Ouadia Bennis, Charlotte Bousquet, Véronique Abt, Dominique Logié, Françoise Chémaô, Christian Devèze, Zidrou, Samia Benatya, Keltoum Mosdik, Majid Al Amiri and Florence Deville-Patte. The illustrators who have provided pretty decorations for the texts are Nathalie Logié, Alexis Logié, Virginie Soumagnac, Abdellatif Mitari, Moshine Drissi, Saïd Boucetta, Karim Yahia, Noureddine Lahrech, Tasneem Allouch, Carole Gourat, Saïd Oumouloud, Jean-Paul Favreau, Pierre Léger and Orélie Gouel.

Je suis partie de « nomade » car pour moi, l’éditeur, l’écrivain, le lecteur, le livre sont tous des nomades. Le nom n’a pas été accepté, car il existait déjà. J’ai juste retiré le N et je l’ai remplacé par Y. Je trouve que Yomad a une belle sonorité.

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Le voleur de Volubilis

Laurence LE GUEN - illustrations d’Anthony COCAIN Lorsque Briac et Maëlle posent leurs pieds sur le sol marocain, ils sont loin de se douter que (...)

Salim wa sahîr / Salem et le sorcier

Mohammed DIB - illustrations de Virginie SOUMAGNAC Bilingue arabe / français Il y a bien longtemps, un méchant sorcier était servi par un petit (...)

Ma place est à l’école !

Véronique ABT Aïcha vit dans un village au Sud du Maroc. Tous les jours, elle regarde, avec envie, les enfants qui se dépêchent sur le chemin de (...)

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Women Unlimited

logoWomen Unlimited

7/10, First Floor, Sarvapriya Vihar
New Delhi 110 016
India
Tél: (+91-11) 2652 4129 / (+91-11) 2686 6596
www.womenunlimited.net

Women Unlimited is an associate of Kali for Women, India’s first and oldest feminist press, which publishes scholarly and academic books in the social sciences; fiction; general interest non-fiction; autobiographies, reminiscences and memoirs; oral histories; books for young adults; pamphlets and monographs; and activist material. The Kali for Women/ Women Unlimited list combines the best of Kali’s titles published between 1984 and 2004, and an exciting range of books and authors commissioned by Women Unlimited. Women Unlimited has close links with the women’s movement, and the women’s studies in India, South Asia, and internationally. We participate in campaigns, nationally and regionally, and have organised extensively on issues to do with alternative media, women’s writing, and gender-based censorship. We consider all this as just an extension of our publishing activity.

WU is an active and organizing partner of the Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), a collective of 10 Delhi-based independent publishers formed in March 2005; and of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD Alternatives), a partnership of 8 independent Indian publishers set up in late 2005, which handles the distribution of titles published by nearly 20 small/independent publishers (including those of the 8 partners).

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Soil Not Oil

Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Food Insecurity - by Vandana Shiva “One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.” —The Guardian (...)

Mother India

Sexual Economies in Contemporary Bombay Cinema - by Karen Gabriel This insightful analysis of popular Bombay cinema presents a comprehensive (...)

Terror, Terrorism, States and Societies

Edited by Samir Kumar Das & Rada Ivekovic Terror has had different philosophies in history; and philosophies have their own engagement with (...)

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Tulika Books

logoTulika Books

No. 44, First Floor
Shahpur Jat
New Delhi 110 049
India
Tél: Tél: (+91-11) 2649 7999 / (+91-11) 4617 0894
www.tulikabooks.in

Tulika Books is an independent publisher based in Delhi, India, specializing in non-fiction, academic books in the social sciences and humanities. Established more than 10 years ago, it has published nearly 65 titles to date, and has been able to attract reputed scholars from various disciplines — such as history, economics, development studies, literary theory, cultural studies, art, sociology and politics — as its authors.

Tulika Books is an active and organizing partner of the Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), a collective of 10 Delhi-based independent publishers formed in March 2005; and of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD Alternatives), a partnership of 8 independent Indian publishers set up in late 2005, which handles the distribution of titles published by nearly 20 small/independent publishers (including those of the 8 partners).

Listen here the interview of Indira Chandrasekhar - interview by Frederick Noronha at the workshop on ’Spreading the Word: Copyright, Dissemination and Independent Publishing’ organized by the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPDA) in collaboration with Alternative Law Forum, 24–25 June 2010, Bangalore.

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Vents d’ailleurs

logoVents d’ailleurs

11, route de Sainte-Anne
13640 La Roque d'Anthéron
France
Tél: +33 (0)4 42 50 59 92
www.ventsdailleurs.com

Vents d’ailleurs was founded in 1999 by Gilles Colleu and Jutta Hepke. Publishing professionals for about 25 years, our starting point was when we noticed a great emptiness, a great shortage in the publishing industry. Book supply is substantial in France, yet many cultures are missing or under-represented. We are convinced that the knowledge of cultures from abroad, the others’ cultures, helps build a society with more solidarity and enriches any human being in his quest for humanity. It is therefore important to build bridges and to make available to everybody the tools to become or to be a citizen of today’s world. Written works, literature, arts, books contribute to this.
We want to contribute to building tomorrow’s world, to opening doors and windows wide to other visions of the world. We have thus opened our door to authors and illustrators, to visions and ideas from abroad, so as to continue together, on the long term, the journey of creation and literature.

Our editorial policy focuses on books telling stories from the “inside”, texts, narratives which do not contemplate other cultures or faraway fantasies – but which, on the contrary, come to us from elsewhere. These stories make us dream and wonder, they question us. The approach is reversed; shifting the point of view changes everything. Our representations, here in France, in a rich Northern country, are questioned, and our landmarks shifted away. Imaginations, languages, ideas, images, cultural expressions clash, cross, permeate each other.

Vents d’ailleurs is a member of the Alliance of independent publishers, the association Éditeurs sans frontières and the association Jedi Paca. Vents d’ailleurs is distributed in Haiti by Communication Plus and in Canada by Dimédia.

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Éditions du Silence

logoÉditions du Silence

292, avenue du Colonel Parant
BP 13822 Libreville
Gabon
www.afrilivres.net

A limited liability company founded in 1996 in Libreville to design, publish, and distribute intellectual works, Éditions du Silence started out publishing scientific journals for the University of Libreville before branching out into the publication of essays, accounts, memoirs, and writings about traditional culture. In 2007, it opened up to fiction and confirmed its grounding in the milieu of schools and universities and, more generally, in the world of ideas to better share our home: Earth.

Contact : Auguste MOUSSIROU-MOUYAMA

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Sankofa & Gurli Éditions

logoSankofa & Gurli Éditions

01 BP 3811
Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
Tél: (+226) 78 72 98 00

Sankofa & Gurli is a Burkinabe publishing house created in 1995. With its creation, several objectives were fixed to promote literature while acting in various and complementary plans which include writing (support of and follow-up with authors), reading (communication with the public), and output and diffusion; to promote and revalorize the African languages, especially those spoken in Burkina Faso and transnational languages, across an editorial policy which avoids marginalizing publication in African languages (aesthetic of the form and the contents, topics, circulation of the publications...); to produce literature of quality at costs corresponding to the local purchasing power; to work to arouse in the children and the young people the taste for reading and writing, and anchor in them, as soon as possible, practices of output and consumption of the writing; in a general way, to contribute to the promotion, the development, and the reinforcement of culture, especially literary, in a context of generalized illiteracy. Since 1999, the contacts have been diversified, the commitments reinforced and widened: Sankofa & Gurli Editions participate with various partners (African, European, North American) in co-publishing projects;
Member of the Alliance of independent publishers, Sankofa & Gurli contributes to the debate and to the fight for bibliodiversity and solidarity in publishers’ independence across the world.

Le nom de la maison d’édition est double. SANKOFA est le nom de l’oiseau qui, dans la cosmogonie des peuples AKAN, symbolise la conscience historique. Son slogan est « Il n’y a pas de honte à revenir sur ses pas pour prendre ce qu’on a perdu/oublié en cours de chemin ». GURLI est le nom du hérisson en gulmancema. Il symbolise aux yeux du fondateur de la maison d’édition l’ingénuité enfantine et le caractère absolu de la liberté des idées. On racontait souvent aux enfants qu’il était impossible de garder prisonnier un hérisson. Toutes les tentatives par ces enfants d’en enfermer un se révélaient vaines, le hérisson disparaissait toujours de sa prison. Bien des années plus tard, l’enfant que j’étais (suis ?) a appris que c’étaient nos aînés qui libéraient le petit animal. Ainsi en est-il des idées : on a beau les enfermer, les emprisonner, il se trouvera toujours un moyen, une personne, une circonstance, qui les libérera...

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Mémoire d’encrier

logoMémoire d’encrier

1260 rue Bélanger, Bureau 201
H2S 1H9 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Tél: (+1-514) 989 1491
www.memoiredencrier.com

Mémoire d’encrier was founded in March 2003 in Montréal by the writer Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI. It publishes works of fiction: novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays and accounts. Mémoire d‘encrier offers a varied catalogue that builds bridges between cultures and imagination in the North and South. The basic idea underlying our work is that of dialogue between cultures in a perspective of solidarity and of accepting the Other. Mémoire d’encrier is geared around a body of over a hundred works by authors from Canada, Quebec, the Caribbean, Native America, Africa, and Europe. The goal being to refuse exclusion and to redefine collective living.

Mémoire d’encrier : enraciner l’encre (l’écrit) dans le patrimoine oral. Associer la mémoire à l’écrit ; associer en ce sens littérature (écrits) et oraliture (traditions orales) ; assumer la continuité entre mémoire et modernité.

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Duvalier. La face cachée de Papa Doc

Jean FLORIVAL Spectateur et souffleur, Jean Florival est dans l’œil du cyclone; à l’intérieur du régime, sans un quelconque titre officiel. C’est en (...)

Litanie pour le Nègre fondamental

Jean BERNABÉ Une dizaine de personnages, hauts en couleurs, issus de différents milieux sociaux et castes de la Martinique, sont mis en scène. (...)

Ainsi parla l’Oncle suivi de Revisiter l’Oncle

Jean PRICE-MARS “Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est le premier manifeste de la condition noire. Paru pour la première fois en 1928, l’ouvrage a influencé (...)

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Les éditions de l’Atelier

logoLes éditions de l’Atelier

51-55 rue Hoche - Bât. B - Hall 1 - étage 3
94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 45 15 20 20
www.editionsatelier.com

Globalisation, new information and communication technologies and individualisation are all radically overturning how people live and work, what they think and believe. L’Atelier hopes to help humanise this transformation, by encouraging the re-establishment of social ties and by making it possible for people from humble backgrounds to take a proactive stance in their own lives, through the publication of books in three fields: Christianity; culture and religion; social and human sciences.
True to the tradition of Editions Ouvrières, a publishing firm set up by the Young Christian Workers movement in 1929, L’Atelier aims to promote works that bridge different spheres of knowledge, that which is forged by experience as well as that which results from analytical work, for books to act as an agent of emancipation and enrichment of social ties for as many people as possible.

Contact : Gaëlle BIDAN

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Metis Publishers

logoMetis Publishers

Ipek Sokak 5, 34433 Beyoglu
Istanbul
Turkey
Tél: +(90-212) 245 46 96
www.metiskitap.com/catalog/metisbooks

Founded in 1982, Metis Publishers has established itself as one of Turkey’s leading
publishing houses, renowned for defending its independent spirit and radical commitment, celebrating critical thinking, original talent, and bringing distinguished letters from the world to generations of Turkish readers. With over 800 titles to its name, Metis is reputed for its careful translations and editorial integrity.

Metis list includes both fiction and nonfiction, specializing in high literature and critical theory. Some of the literary authors published in translation are Ursula K. LeGuin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Salman Rushdie, Henry Bauchau, Georges Perec, John Berger, J.R.R. Tolkien and Maurice
Blanchot. The works of such distinguished Turkish authors as Murathan Mungan and Bilge Karasu are also published by Metis.

Metis nonfiction list features works of an interdisciplinary character that
have the potential to intervene in the cultural climate of Turkey from a
radical political perspective, such as those by Walter Benjamin, Max
Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, Immanuel Wallerstein, Emile Cioran, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Nurdan Gürbilek and Nilüfer Göle. World-class literary theorists including Gyorgy Lukacs, Tzvetan Todorov and Mikhail Bakhtin, philosophers such as Paul Ricoeur, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Roland Barthes and psychoanalytic masters including Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut are also amongst the authors Metis has published in Turkey.

Metis was the Goddess of Wisdom, first wife of Zeus, before he swallowed her up when she was pregnant and gave “birth” through his forehead to the next Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, who was “born from a man, fully armed”, whereas Metis was against the use of arms, worked with the knowledge of nature and used the skill of the craftsperson to solve disputes, like a captain navigating rocky waters.
Hence metis came to signify the “knowledge that the Power detests”, in addition to nobody, bastard, craftiness...

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Child of Agony

Cultural Climate of Turkey by Vitrinde Yaşamak (1992) and Kötü Çocuk Türk (2001) A collection of essays on Turkey’�s cultural climate in the last (...)

The Garden of Departed Cats

By Bilge Karasu In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of human chess is staged, the (...)

World Tribunal on Iraq

Istanbul Culminating Session, 23-27 June 2005 Müge Gürsoy Sökmen (ed.) “The records have to be kept and, by definition, the perpetrators, far from (...)

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Sankofa & Gurli Éditions

logoSankofa & Gurli Éditions

01 BP 3811
Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
Tél: (+226) 78 72 98 00

Sankofa & Gurli is a Burkinabe publishing house created in 1995. With its creation, several objectives were fixed to promote literature while acting in various and complementary plans which include writing (support of and follow-up with authors), reading (communication with the public), and output and diffusion; to promote and revalorize the African languages, especially those spoken in Burkina Faso and transnational languages, across an editorial policy which avoids marginalizing publication in African languages (aesthetic of the form and the contents, topics, circulation of the publications...); to produce literature of quality at costs corresponding to the local purchasing power; to work to arouse in the children and the young people the taste for reading and writing, and anchor in them, as soon as possible, practices of output and consumption of the writing; in a general way, to contribute to the promotion, the development, and the reinforcement of culture, especially literary, in a context of generalized illiteracy. Since 1999, the contacts have been diversified, the commitments reinforced and widened: Sankofa & Gurli Editions participate with various partners (African, European, North American) in co-publishing projects;
Member of the Alliance of independent publishers, Sankofa & Gurli contributes to the debate and to the fight for bibliodiversity and solidarity in publishers’ independence across the world.

Le nom de la maison d’édition est double. SANKOFA est le nom de l’oiseau qui, dans la cosmogonie des peuples AKAN, symbolise la conscience historique. Son slogan est « Il n’y a pas de honte à revenir sur ses pas pour prendre ce qu’on a perdu/oublié en cours de chemin ». GURLI est le nom du hérisson en gulmancema. Il symbolise aux yeux du fondateur de la maison d’édition l’ingénuité enfantine et le caractère absolu de la liberté des idées. On racontait souvent aux enfants qu’il était impossible de garder prisonnier un hérisson. Toutes les tentatives par ces enfants d’en enfermer un se révélaient vaines, le hérisson disparaissait toujours de sa prison. Bien des années plus tard, l’enfant que j’étais (suis ?) a appris que c’étaient nos aînés qui libéraient le petit animal. Ainsi en est-il des idées : on a beau les enfermer, les emprisonner, il se trouvera toujours un moyen, une personne, une circonstance, qui les libérera...

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Mémoire d’encrier

logoMémoire d’encrier

1260 rue Bélanger, Bureau 201
H2S 1H9 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Tél: (+1-514) 989 1491
www.memoiredencrier.com

Mémoire d’encrier was founded in March 2003 in Montréal by the writer Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI. It publishes works of fiction: novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays and accounts. Mémoire d‘encrier offers a varied catalogue that builds bridges between cultures and imagination in the North and South. The basic idea underlying our work is that of dialogue between cultures in a perspective of solidarity and of accepting the Other. Mémoire d’encrier is geared around a body of over a hundred works by authors from Canada, Quebec, the Caribbean, Native America, Africa, and Europe. The goal being to refuse exclusion and to redefine collective living.

Mémoire d’encrier : enraciner l’encre (l’écrit) dans le patrimoine oral. Associer la mémoire à l’écrit ; associer en ce sens littérature (écrits) et oraliture (traditions orales) ; assumer la continuité entre mémoire et modernité.

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Duvalier. La face cachée de Papa Doc

Jean FLORIVAL Spectateur et souffleur, Jean Florival est dans l’œil du cyclone; à l’intérieur du régime, sans un quelconque titre officiel. C’est en (...)

Litanie pour le Nègre fondamental

Jean BERNABÉ Une dizaine de personnages, hauts en couleurs, issus de différents milieux sociaux et castes de la Martinique, sont mis en scène. (...)

Ainsi parla l’Oncle suivi de Revisiter l’Oncle

Jean PRICE-MARS “Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est le premier manifeste de la condition noire. Paru pour la première fois en 1928, l’ouvrage a influencé (...)

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Les éditions de l’Atelier

logoLes éditions de l’Atelier

51-55 rue Hoche - Bât. B - Hall 1 - étage 3
94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 45 15 20 20
www.editionsatelier.com

Globalisation, new information and communication technologies and individualisation are all radically overturning how people live and work, what they think and believe. L’Atelier hopes to help humanise this transformation, by encouraging the re-establishment of social ties and by making it possible for people from humble backgrounds to take a proactive stance in their own lives, through the publication of books in three fields: Christianity; culture and religion; social and human sciences.
True to the tradition of Editions Ouvrières, a publishing firm set up by the Young Christian Workers movement in 1929, L’Atelier aims to promote works that bridge different spheres of knowledge, that which is forged by experience as well as that which results from analytical work, for books to act as an agent of emancipation and enrichment of social ties for as many people as possible.

Contact : Gaëlle BIDAN

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Metis Publishers

logoMetis Publishers

Ipek Sokak 5, 34433 Beyoglu
Istanbul
Turkey
Tél: +(90-212) 245 46 96
www.metiskitap.com/catalog/metisbooks

Founded in 1982, Metis Publishers has established itself as one of Turkey’s leading
publishing houses, renowned for defending its independent spirit and radical commitment, celebrating critical thinking, original talent, and bringing distinguished letters from the world to generations of Turkish readers. With over 800 titles to its name, Metis is reputed for its careful translations and editorial integrity.

Metis list includes both fiction and nonfiction, specializing in high literature and critical theory. Some of the literary authors published in translation are Ursula K. LeGuin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Salman Rushdie, Henry Bauchau, Georges Perec, John Berger, J.R.R. Tolkien and Maurice
Blanchot. The works of such distinguished Turkish authors as Murathan Mungan and Bilge Karasu are also published by Metis.

Metis nonfiction list features works of an interdisciplinary character that
have the potential to intervene in the cultural climate of Turkey from a
radical political perspective, such as those by Walter Benjamin, Max
Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, Immanuel Wallerstein, Emile Cioran, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Nurdan Gürbilek and Nilüfer Göle. World-class literary theorists including Gyorgy Lukacs, Tzvetan Todorov and Mikhail Bakhtin, philosophers such as Paul Ricoeur, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Roland Barthes and psychoanalytic masters including Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut are also amongst the authors Metis has published in Turkey.

Metis was the Goddess of Wisdom, first wife of Zeus, before he swallowed her up when she was pregnant and gave “birth” through his forehead to the next Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, who was “born from a man, fully armed”, whereas Metis was against the use of arms, worked with the knowledge of nature and used the skill of the craftsperson to solve disputes, like a captain navigating rocky waters.
Hence metis came to signify the “knowledge that the Power detests”, in addition to nobody, bastard, craftiness...

Books selection

Child of Agony

Cultural Climate of Turkey by Vitrinde Yaşamak (1992) and Kötü Çocuk Türk (2001) A collection of essays on Turkey’�s cultural climate in the last (...)

The Garden of Departed Cats

By Bilge Karasu In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of human chess is staged, the (...)

World Tribunal on Iraq

Istanbul Culminating Session, 23-27 June 2005 Müge Gürsoy Sökmen (ed.) “The records have to be kept and, by definition, the perpetrators, far from (...)

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Jamana

logoJamana

Avenue Cheik Zahed, porte 2694, Hamdalaye
BP 2043 Bamako
Mali
Tél: (+223) 20 29 62 89

Jamana is an organization of the Jamana Multimedia Cultural Cooperative. The company was created in 1988 to fill a void, because, at that time, there was only one publishing house, and it was state run.
Jamana was therefore Mali’s first private publishing firm. Jamana gives priority to publications geared toward young people and women in the national languages. It aims at being accessible to all Malian and foreign authors. Because we are aware that our country’s sustainable development requires the promotion of national languages, we strongly encourage their use in the education system. Over the past few years, particular focus has been put on publishing books for young people, as well as pre-education, textbooks, extracurricular, and academic books. Our battle against illiteracy finds expression in the promotion of our cultures and the defence of an economically viable publishing industry. As part of our pan-African aim, we encourage all kinds of partnerships: co-publishing, distribution, adaptation of books, copyright sale. Co-publishing has also grown somewhat, because we believe that the salvation of the African publishing industry necessarily depends on developing partnerships between African and foreign publishers.

Jamana signifie dans plusieurs langues africaines : le pays. Pour nous il s’agit du Mali bien sûr, mais surtout de l’Afrique. Notre logo : une carte de l’Afrique (tirée de la carte pour un monde solidaire ; carte un peu « étirée ») traversée par l’idéogramme bambara de la connaissance, le Mali occupant sa place. Pour nous, l’Afrique (et le monde) ne se développera qu’à travers une vraie solidarité.

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Histoire du Sahel occidental malien

Amadou BA L’intérêt de cet ouvrage d’histoire est la démarche de son auteur. Amadou Ba, qui n’est pas historien de formation, combine sources orales (...)

Les contes du hameau

Namaké DIOMBANA Nos contes et nos héros, les personnages les plus symboliques de notre terroir, du malin lièvre à la bête hyène, en passant par la (...)

Les pièges du destin

Mama Kâaba SOUMARÉ Les pièges du destin est l’histoire passionnante et riche en rebondissements de destins qui se croisent continuellement. Le roman (...)

Contact : Hamidou KONATÉ

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Ganndal

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B.P: 542, Route de Lambandji- Ratoma
Conakry
Republic of Guinea
Tél: (224) 622 54 48 26 / 622 39 65 88 / 620 63 14 34
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A corporation legally constituted under Guinean law, Ganndal was created in June 1992. Its catalogue includes works in the following fields: textbooks, children’s and young people’s literature, general literature, coffee table books and publications in national languages.
Committed to working in partnerships, Ganndal has developed an extensive network of South-South and North-South collaborations. This publishing firm has thus produced a large number of books, of all genres, through co-publishing or co-production projects with foreign publishers.
Locally, Ganndal coordinates the activities of REPROLIG (a network of Guinean publishers) and is also an active member of the African Publishers Network (APNET).

Ganndal est un terme générique en langue pular (fulfulde) signifiant « éducation », «culture », « enseignement », « savoir », bref tout ce que porte et transporte le livre.

Read here the interview with Aliou Sow, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (May 9, 2017).

Listen here the interview of Aliou Sow (Ganndal), RFI, November 3, 2019.

See here the interview of Marie Paule Huet, Pauz Media, December 17, 2020.

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Les Éditions du Flamboyant

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08 BP 271
Cotonou
Benin
Tél: +229 21 31 02 20 +229 90 91 57 27

Flamboyant was founded in July 1989 by several executives at the Beninese Ministry of Education together with a few French publishers. In a time of increased economic liberalism, Flamboyant has been a pioneer in Beninese publishing and one of the best publishers in the subregion with an average eight works a year. Flamboyant has invested all fields of literature and science, where it has a proven know-how and experience. In order to face the challenges of globalization and to promote bibliodiversity, Flamboyant has taken many pan-African initiatives, such as bringing publishers into associations like Assedib, Afrilivres…
A publisher, consultant and distributor of works of the mind, Flamboyant is now led by Dorothée Gérard Houessou. It is currently enjoying new-found energy and is sure to have a promising, flamboyant future.

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Enfant d’autrui, fille de personne

Adélaïde Édith Bignon FASSINOU Le Seigneur n’a t-il pas dit lui-même : «Si vous faites du bien au plus petit de ces créatures, c’est à moi que vous le (...)

L’Afrique et le Tsunami permanent

Yénikoye Ismaël ABOUBACAR En réponse à l’apocalypse, l’Homo planétarus ne s’y est donc pas trompé en se mobilisant comme un seul homme, sur les cinq (...)

Religions indigènes et savoir endogène

Marc MONSIA Nous livre une connaissance hermétique du vaudou ; c’est pour la première fois que la nature ésotérique des divinités du panthéon vaudou (...)

Contact : Dorothée Gérard HOUESSOU

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éditions d’en bas

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30, rue des Côtes-de-Montbenon
CH-1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
Tél: (+41) 21 323 39 18
www.enbas.net

The éditions d’en bas (“from below”) published its first books in 1976, organised itself as an association in 1976 and then as a cooperative in 1991. In 28 years, more than 300 books have been published. The publishing house is founded on two pillars: a militant base of people who have adhered to the editorial policy, and the network of bookshops in the country. The output and translation of books is partly funded by state and private institutions/foundations, as well as by partnerships (co-publishing) with various non-governmental organisations and social movements. The books published by the editions d’en bas witness the hidden side of Switzerland, especially life “down below” in the working-class community. They can also serve in some cases as tools in the fight for rights; they can precede and accompany social struggles, or tell their story.
Essays and historical, sociological and political documents, testimonies, life stories, literary texts, translations – the books published by the éditions d’en bas explore the social field from the margins of history, politics, and society; they allow for the emergence of singular voices, of forgotten destinies and themes.

Par la littérature ou le récit de vie, l’essai critique ou le livre d’histoire, les éditions d’en bas rendent compte de « la face cachée » de la Suisse (et du monde). Des voix dissidentes, attachées aux passages de la mémoire. Les éditions d’en bas sont attachées à valoriser les langues, les populations et les cultures minoritaires révélatrices des structures d’oppression et de répression.

Read the portrait of Jean Richard and the éditions d’en bas published by Le Temps, September 4, 2020.

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Jeunes malgaches

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51, rue Tsiombikibo Ambatovinaky
101 Antananarivo
Madagascar
Tél: (+261) 20 22 566 58
www.editions-jeunes-malgaches.mg

The limited company Presse Edition & Diffusion (PREDIFF) was founded in March 1995. Its core business is the subscription sale of foreign periodicals, managing international communication, the bookshop, card shop and since November 2004, the publication of children’s books. To date Éditions Jeunes Malgaches have published several tales and bilingual children’s publications: in February 2005, Maria Vakansy any Alaotra, in Malagasy; in November 2006, Maria Nahita ranomasina voalohany, in Malagasy; Marthe Rasoa raconte, two Malagasy tales written in French; in January 2007, Les Mésaventures de Milaloza, a French/Malagasy bilingual edition of a Malagasy tale, and in November 2007, Soza le pêcheur, a bilingual tale as well as ABDlire, a bilingual aphabet book.

Jeunes malgaches une maison d’édition spécialisée jeunesse qui veut rester toujours jeune au service de la promotion de la culture et la langue malgache.

Read here the interview with Marie Michèle Razafinstalama, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (November 21, 2016).

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Soza le pêcheur

Cyprienne TOAZARA Histoire illustrée en bilingue français/malgache La pirogue de Soza n’a pas su franchir la barrière de corail et le pêcheur de (...)

I Vonindrano sy i Zavonandro (Fleur de l’eau et Brume du matin)

Arikaomisa RANDRIA (ill.) ; Max RAZAFINDRAIBE Album bilingue illustré. 2017 - 16 pages - 23 x 23 cm - 11.000 Ar (8 €) - ISBN : (...)

Ny Bokiko 2

Marie Michèle RAKOTOANOSY / Catmouse James (ill.) Imagier en malgache 2017 - 36 pages - 14 x 14cm - 11 000 Ar (6 €) – ISBN : (...)

Contact : Marie Michèle RAZAFINTSALAMA

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éditions du Sextant

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185 bis rue Ordener
75018 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 42 23 26 54
www.editionsdusextant.fr

Founded in 2003 by Isabelle Pivert, éditions du Sextant publishes works in the humanities field – history, geography, history of thought and political science – with the aim of enlightening readers to help them gain insight into the world, position themselves and pursue their own path.
Our collections follow their own paths (and overlap?) joyfully: “Décodeur” (economic, social, political criticism: essays), “Géographique” (interactions between physical space and humankind and/or society: essays, biographies, travel accounts), “Résistance” (accounts, especially of WW2), “Récits” (accounts, especially on social issues). In the “Hors Piste” (“Off the Beaten Track”) collection, Sextant experiments and publishes their favourites in a “ragbag” collection.

Based in Paris, we are also developing a branch in Brittany (2008), in a place that’s propitious to creative processes and thinking, Le Pouldu.

Le sextant est un instrument de positionnement utilisé dans la navigation : grâce à cet objet, on peut faire le point avec le soleil et les étoiles, c’est-à-dire connaître sa position exacte sur la planète, et ainsi choisir son cap, son chemin propre sur un espace, la mer, espace de liberté. Je fais ici une analogie avec le livre, instrument de savoir, de connaissance, de transmission, sur soi et les autres, sur le monde, qui permet de choisir ensuite son propre chemin. Le livre-objet qu’on a dans les mains, qu’on touche et qu’on voit qu’on sent (le papier), et dont il faut apprendre à se servir, c’est-à-dire ici savoir lire et écrire, pour l’apprécier. Le livre-passeur d’histoires.

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La Datcha en Russie de 1917 à nos jours

Vlada TRAVEN “Un essai passionnant” (Le Figaro littéraire) Dès la révolution de 1917, la datcha, maison de campagne du citadin, pose problème au (...)

Soleil Capitaliste

Entretiens au cœur des multinationales - Isabelle PIVERT “La matière recueillie, exceptionnelle, inspire réflexions, agacements et frayeurs sur (...)

Élisée Reclus ou la passion du monde

Hélène SARRAZIN - Introduction de Kenneth WHITE Né en 1830 à Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde), Élisée Reclus est considéré comme le père de l’écologie (...)

Contact : Isabelle PIVERT

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