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202 bis, boulevard du 13 janvier
BP 3601
Lomé
Togo
Tél: (+228) 22 25 87 55 / (+228) 90 30 55 79
https://www.facebook.com/bdafricaine/
AGO Media is a team of young writers and illustrators brought together by Koffivi ASSEM and KanAd for the production and distribution of comics and animated films. AGO Media is composed of a publishing house, a communication agency and a production and distribution company for books and films.
Lomé-based AGO publishing wants to make up for the lack of publishing houses specialized in children’s books and comics in Africa.
Before the official foundation of the company in 2011, AGO started with the publication of fanzines: “AGO fiction” and “AGO drama”. This is how the company’s strategy was defined: to fund the publishing wing through the communication agency, to diversify the revenues by venturing into multimedia and cinema and especially to create an authentic distribution circuit.
To read:
KANAD
Au commencement tous les animaux vivaient tous dans le même village, tous les hommes dans un autre. Avec Ziguidi, un enfant prodige, tout cela va changer. Le livre contient aussi un abécédaire sur les animaux.
2012 - 31 pages - 21 X 21 cm - 6 € - ISBN : 979-10-90810-03-7
Collection “Le petit griot”
Koffivi ASSEM & KANAD
À la suite du terrible tremblement de terre qui ébranle Haïti on 2010, un enfant de rue, habitué à se débrouiller, décide de prendre soin de deux orphelins. Mais c’est au moment où il arrive à obtenir leur confiance et affection, qu’il est enlevé. Haïti mon amour est le premier tome des aventures de P’tit Filou.
2012 - 42 pages - 21 X 29,7 cm - 10 € - ISBN : 979-10-90810-00-6
Collection “BD Junior”
Joël ADOTEVI, KANAD, Gilka, Koffivi ASSEM, Anani ACCOH, Adomayakpo Daté PAPI
Six récits pour faire voyager petits et grands dans l’histoire, les imaginaires de l’Afrique. Dans ce premier tome, visitez le Nigéria, le Togo, le Bénin, le Ghana et le Mali, pour découvrir des cosmogonies, des épopées, des légendes urbaines et des faits ou personnages historiques comme Shango, Sogolon la femme buffle, le roi Agokoli, les amazones du Dahomey et les terribles Ablafo.
2015 - 48 pages - 10 € -
Collection “Afrique en BD”
Contact : Koffivi ASSEM
Responsable : KanAd
401 Richmond Street West, #277
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
Canada
Tél: +(416) 535-9914
www.btlbooks.com
Between the Lines (BTL) was established in 1977 and is a fiercely independent small press. At BTL we remain committed to our original mandate: to publish Canadian-authored non-fiction on a broad range of social and cultural issues from a progressive perspective. Our corresponding mission is to provide high quality resources that promote equitable social change. We specialize in informative, non-fiction books on politics and public policy, social issues, Canadian and world history, international development, Indigenous issues, gender/sexuality, critical race issues, labour and work, environment, and media. BTL books amplify the voices that often go unheard in the mainstream and challenge our readers to think differently. Our Editorial Committee makes publishing decisions democratically by consensus.
Between the Lines asks people to read critically, to think about the world differently, and not to get stuck in factional party lines.
Read here the interview with Amanda Crocker, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (January 16, 2018).
David AUSTIN
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean–people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country–raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
Fear of a Black Nation won the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize in Caribbean Literature in English or Creole and was a silver medalist in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards - Best Regional Non-Fiction (Canada-East).
2013; 256 pages; 152 x 228 mm;
ISBN (Paperback): 9781771130103 | $34.95 CAD
ISBN (Digital): 9781771130110 | $23.95 CAD
Stephen D’ARCY
“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of the Unheard draws on King’s insight to address a timely and controversial topic: the ethics and politics of militant resistance.
Using vivid examples from the history of militancy—including armed actions by Weatherman and the Red Brigades, the LA Riots, the Zapatista uprising, the Mohawk land defence at Kanesatake, the Black Blocs at summit protests, the occupations of Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park, the Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz, the Quebec Student Strike, and many more—this book will be of interest to democratic theorists and moral philosophers, and practically useful for protest militants attempting to grapple with the moral ambiguities and political dilemmas unique to their distinctive position.
Stephen D’Arcy is an associate professor of philosophy at Huron University College, Western University. A long-time social activist and protest organizer, he teaches and writes about democratic theory and practical ethics.
2013; 232 pages; 152 x 228 mm;
ISBN (Paperback): 9781771131063 | $24.95 CAD
ISBN (Digital): 9781771131070 | $17.50 CAD
Karen MESSING
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies.
Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world—factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers—suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.
Karen Messing is an award-winning (including a Governor General of Canada award and YWCA (Montreal) Women of Distinction) and internationally recognized expert on occupational health. She is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific articles and the book One-eyed Science: Occupational Health and Working Women. She is also the editor of Integrating Gender in Ergonomic Analysis, which has been translated into six languages.
2014; 168 pages; 152 x 228 mm;
ISBN (Paperback): 9781771131476 | $24.95 CAD
ISBN (Digital): 9781771131483 | $17.50 CAD
Contact : Amanda CROCKER
Éditions Papyrus Afrique, founded and directed by Seydou Nourou Ndiaye, is a Francophone publishing house, publishing mainly in African languages. Its mission is the development of modern literature in national languages. Since its creation in 1996, Papyrus has published more than 130 books published in West African languages. Having a large readership in the region and in the European and US diasporas, Éditions Papyrus Afrique also publishes a monthly newsletter in Wolof and Pulaar Lasli/ Njelbean.
Éditions Papyrus Afrique were the recipients of the Alioune Diop Prize for the Promotion of Publishing in Africa in 2002. They were also the first to be awarded the National Prize for the Promotion of Publishing in Africa in Senegal, in 2005.
Read: “Notre objectif est d’arriver à une coordination entre éditions africaines”, interview with Seydou Nourou Ndiaye, Liberté Algérie, 13 November, 2019
Léopold Sédar SENGHOR ; Wally FAYE (trad.)
A Pind Seenoor est une revue explicative et panoramique des poèmes de Senghor, avec en annexe leur traduction intégrale en sérère, langue maternelle de l’auteur. L’analyste et traducteur Wally Faye, ingénieur informaticien de formation, a noué une relation de profonde complicité avec Senghor, qu’il a connu de son vivant. Cette belle traduction en sérère a l’avantage de faire revenir le poète auprès des siens. Parmi les poèmes traduits se trouve Chants d’ombres, Hosties noires et Éthiopiques.
Décembre 2014 ; 164 pages ; 13,5 x 21 cm ; ISBN : 978-2-914135-23-8
Abdullaye JAH
Booy Pullo campe la déchéance d’un jeune paysan qui quitte son village pour aller en France. Il passe par Dakar, s’y enlise, se confronte aux difficultés et au sida. Le roman nous donne une photographie saisissante, de l’intérieur des mégapoles africaines. Booy Pullo est d’abord un roman d’espoir qui invite la jeunesse rurale africaine à se battre sur place et à servir son pays.
Abdullaye JAH, enseignant et journaliste, a choisi de s’installer dans son village natal. Il y dirige une radio communautaire et se consacre à l’écriture.
Décembre 2014 ; 110 pages ; 13,5 x 21 cm ; ISBN : 978-2-914135-21-4
Professeur Aboubacry MOUSSA LAM
La connaissance est le personnage central de ce roman en pulaar dont la portée équivaut à une œuvre de recherche classique.
Le noir a pendant longtemps fait l’objet d’un regard peu valorisant. Ce sort va pousser Ganndal (la connaissance) a démêler l’écheveau. Il va faire découvrir au noir qu’il est à l’origine des premières conquêtes : État, écriture, religion… Alors, les échafaudages, laborieusement construits contre lui autour des questions telles que celle de la place de la femme et celle de l’enfant, les droits de l’individu au regard de ceux du groupe, tombent.
Ce roman est un raccourci extraordinaire qui permet d’accéder à certains aspects de l’histoire de l’humanité pour tout lecteur capable de lire la langue pulaar dans le texte. Ce roman est retenu pour être traduit en français et dans d’autres langues africaines.
Son auteur, le Professeur Aboubacry MOUSSA LAM, est professeur titulaire à l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Cet égyptologue qui a été l’assistant de feu Cheikh Anta DIOP en est à son troisième ouvrage édité aux Éditions Papyrus Afrique.
208 pages ; 13 X 21 cm ; ISBN : 978-2-914135-13-9
Contact : Seydou Nourou NDIAYE
Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford, OX4 1JE
United Kingdom
Tél: +44 (0)1865 403156 / +44 (0)1865 403345
www.newint.org
An independent, not-for-profit media co-operative, New Internationalist is a voice that empowers. We tell the stories that the mainstream media sidestep and offer a platform for the people living those stories. Our award-winning magazine, books and website set the agenda for a radically fairer future, promote global justice and campaign for the disadvantaged all over the world.
New Internationalist books span activism, current affairs, children’s and adult fiction, education, ethical living, photography and world food.
We used to be called the Internationalist. We became the New Internationalist in 1973! New perspectives on what it means to be a global citizen are needed now as much as ever. Internationalism guides everything we do as we believe in the interdependency of all people and all things. Now with our recent merger with Myriad our mission is to explore new ways of seeing.
Ruth WALTON
An educational resource to help children explore the issue of fair trade by allowing them to see through the eyes of the children of banana farmers in the Windward Islands. The author spent time with the farmers’ families and she uses the real-life narratives of two young children going about their daily activities to show how bananas grow, problems such as hurricanes which can affect the crop, how they are picked and transported and how they end up in our stores.
The main story is illustrated with colorful collages made from painted textures and photographs from the Islands. Interspersed in the story are boxes with maps, facts and photos giving more detail on the places and methods and challenges. Its ends with banana recipes and ’bigger picture’ descriptions, maps and photos of where bananas come from and examples of social premium funded projects.
With plenty of points for discussion Juliana’s Bananas will give girls and boys an insight into the lives of children like them in the Caribbean and how fair trade premiums help communities all over the world build better living conditions.
Ruth WALTON is skilled in many areas of book design, including illustration, layout and typography. She produces educational books using a combination of letterpress, illustration, collage and photography. She illustrated the “Let’s Find Out series” for Franklin WATTS.
September 2014 - pages: 32 - 212 x 178 mm (landscape) - price: £8.99 / £9.95 - ISBN: 978-1-78026-1-805 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-181-2)
Richard SWIFT
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. people are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist.
Richard SWIFT proves this to be wrong with style and assurance. With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer - including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology and degrowth.
Combining the practical with the visionary, he shows that finding alternatives to capitalism is no longer an academic issue for the left – it is an urgent planetary necessity.
Richard SWIFT is a former editor of New Internationalist magazine and author of the “No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy”. In 2011 he won the Daniel Singer Millenium Prize for an original essay which helps further socialist ideas.
April 2014 - pages: 208 - 216 x 138 mm (paperback) - price: £9.99 / $16.95 - ISBN: 9781780261706 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-171-3)
Peter HUDSON
The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there – an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human.
The Sahel – the ‘shore’ of the Sahara – is where cultures, customs and climates meet, merge and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people, with whom he now runs agricultural projects, we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest, most marginalised and but also quietly inspiring corners of the world.
Searingly honest and refreshing, this is a superbly written piece of travel writing about a little-known part of the world. The author gets under the surface and gives a sensitive account of what life is like. He understands not just the culture and complex social dealings but also how economics and geo-political forces that can profoundly affect the lives of individuals in a remote community.
Illustrated with maps and line drawings “Under An African Sky” is a unique journey – for the armchair traveller and those interested in development, climate change and global politics and economics.
Peter HUDSON runs an international development charity based in Mauritania in West Africa. He has travelled widely in the region and has written several books including “Leaf in the Wind”, “Travels in Mauritania” and “Two Rivers”.
September 2014 - pages: 240 - 216 x 138 mm (paperback) - price: £9.99 / $16.95 - ISBN: 978-1-78026-178-2 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-179-9)
Calle 2 número 21
San Pedro de los Pinos
03800 México, D.F.
Mexico
Tél: +(52 55) 5515 1657
www.edicionesdelermitano.com
Ediciones del Ermitaño, Editorial Division of Solar Servicios Editoriales, is backed by the experience and prestige of over 29 years in the market and a growing collection of poetry, short stories, novels, and other genres. When the possibility of using digital technology emerged in the editorial world, Ediciones del Ermitaño was the first to create a collection that fully takes advantage of that technology. And so “Minimalia”, our main collection, was born, in which we have published over 250 titles and which has sold thousands of copies. We never run out of any title, since we have the capacity to reprint according to the needs and demand; this has allowed us to open the doors to many young writers who have been able to publish their first, and very promising, works, side by side with the accomplished writers that also are part of our catalog. Thus, the “Minimalia” collection has been a pioneer and a platform for experimentation that established the example and marked new guidelines. It is a collection that explores and explodes the new digital technologies surrounding composition and production, in order to create new paradigms that carry the word from the authors to ultimately thousands of readers.
Contact : Alejandro ZENKER
13, rue de Vaucouleurs
75011 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 43 14 03 94
www.fontaineolivres.com
Since 2007, Fontaine O Livres’ network of independent book professionals has been promoting contemporary creativity by encouraging synergies between book actors and entrepreneurs. Advice and support for business creation and project development, a coworking and meeting space for book and cultural actors, professional training adapted to the specificities of the written word, networking and sharing for its members, the association places people, sharing and competence at the heart of its activities.
Fontaine O Livres is an observer member of the Alliance.
Contact : Gaëlle BOHE
4 rue Imilchil – CIL
Casablanca 20200
Morocco
Tél: +21 25 22 36 68 43
www.editionsdusirocco.wixsite.com/accueil
Sirocco publishing was created in 2007 in Casablanca to support, unearth, and amplify Moroccan voices of yesterday or today. Their editorial choices are essentially guided by a passion for Morocco, its history, its heritage, its culture in its various expressions, without excluding other perspectives from the southern Mediterranean. Their list, including some co-publishing projects, is francophone and generalist. It is unique in that it reflects the enthusiasm of discoveries and encounters, built at their own pace. Recipient in 2013 of the Grand Atlas Prize (category Francophone essays) awarded to one of their publications, Sirocco Publishing now also publishes literature.
Sirocco parce que comme le vent (plutôt appelé « chergui » au Maroc mais la consonance du mot Sirocco me plaisait mieux), nos titres viennent « du sud » (de la Méditerranée, leurs auteurs ou leurs thèmes), et j’espère qu’ils soufflent chaud.
Read here the interview with Karine Joseph, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (February 10, 2017)
Kenza SEFRIOUI
« Une étude pionnière consacrée à une revue maghrébine » [Salim Jay] qui questionne une période essentielle de l’histoire du Maroc.
Créée à Rabat en mars 1966 par un petit groupe de jeunes poètes d’expression française, Souffles a été, tout au long de ses sept années d’existence, une tribune singulière dans le paysage de la presse marocaine, en évoluant du laboratoire d’écriture, où les lecteurs découvrirent notamment Tahar Ben Jelloun ou Mohammed Khaïr- Eddine, à l’engagement culturel et politique.
Avec son projet de restructuration de la culture nationale, elle a porté un véritable mouvement littéraire et intellectuel, avant de devenir la tribune du mouvement marxiste-léniniste. Disparue en 1972, après l’arrestation d’Abdellatif Laâbi et d’Abraham Serfati, son histoire, retracée au travers des textes et des témoignages de ses contributeurs, montre que sa vision moderniste et progressiste invitait à des questionnements toujours d’actualité.
4è de couverture (extrait)
… cette revue, qui aurait pu vivre la vie tranquille d’un cénacle de poètes et d’artistes… a réussi, elle, en une série d’avancées de la conscience, à opérer deux ruptures essentielles : l’une dans le champ culturel et esthétique, l’autre dans le champ politique… »
Abdellatif Laâbi (Extrait de la préface)
Kenza SEFRIOUI, née à Paris en 1979, est journaliste et critique littéraire. Responsable pendant cinq ans de la rubrique littéraire du magazine marocain Le Journal hebdomadaire, elle collabore aujourd’hui notamment au site des cultures méditerranéennes Babelmed, et milite pour le développement culturel au Maroc.
De sa thèse de doctorat en littérature comparée consacrée à Souffles, elle donne aujourd’hui une étude rigoureuse en même temps qu’un récit passionnant qui plonge le lecteur au cœur de la revue et de ses engagements « ardents ».
Mars 2013 - 458 pages - 15 x 22 cm - broché - 90 MAD - ISBN : 978-9954-9187-0-8
Essai
Textes recueillis à Marrakech et traduits par Doctoresse LÉGEY
« J’ai recueilli tous ces contes à Marrakech. Plus heureuse que nombre de folkloristes qui ont dû s’adresser à des intermédiaires, j’ai fait ma récolte directement dans les principaux harems de Marrakech, sur la place de Jâma ‘el-Fna ‘, auprès des conteurs publics ou dans mon cabinet, où venaient s’asseoir et causer Si El-Hasan ou Lalla ‘Abbouch.
Je transcrivais ces contes en français, au fur et à mesure qu’ils m’étaient
contés et, ensuite, pour être bien sûre de n’avoir fait aucune erreur d’interprétation, oublié aucune expression particulière, je les redisais à mon tour en arabe à mes conteurs. Je puis donc affirmer que la version que je donne est aussi près que possible du conte entendu. »
D. LÉGEY (extrait de la 4e de couverture)
Mme LÉGEY, médecin au Maroc à partir de 1910 et pendant plus de 25 ans, y a soigné des milliers de personnes et contribué à installer des dispensaires et maternités dans plusieurs villes du pays. Par sa collecte de contes et légendes, aux sources les plus authentiques, leur traduction et leur publication, elle permet aux francophones d’accéder à l’imaginaire d’un peuple.
« Apprentie folkloriste », comme elle se définissait elle-même, Mme Légey participe aussi à la préservation d’un riche patrimoine. (En 2001, l’espace culturel de la place Jemaa el-Fna de Marrakech a été proclamé par l’UNESCO : chef-d’œuvre du patrimoine oral et immatériel de l’humanité.)
Parution Maroc : novembre 2007 ; 2è tirage : janvier 2010 - réédition, édition originale 1926 - 368 pages - 13,5 x 21 cm - 18 € - ISBN : 978-9954-8851-0-2
Hanane OULAÏLLAH JAZOUANI (texte et illustrations)
À vous de voter les enfants !
À Fanidi, petit village du Maroc, une élection est organisée pour choisir le maire junior. Pour qui voteras-tu ?
Collection “p’tit citoyen (… deviendra grand !)”
Une collection qui propose aux enfants de réfléchir à la vie ensemble, de se préparer à devenir un citoyen responsable : se préoccuper, se comporter et agir selon l’intérêt commun.
Des messages essentiels, la notion de citoyenneté, ses enjeux, au travers d’histoires et d’activités qui font, doucement et joliment, grandir.
Des livres gaiement illustrés pour que lire et réfléchir riment aussi avec plaisir !
Hanane OULAÏLLAH JAZOUANI est une jeune auteur et illustratrice franco-marocaine, née en Normandie après que ses parents aient quitté le Maroc dans les années 1970 pour commencer une nouvelle vie en France. Après des études artistiques en Grande-Bretagne, Hanane décide de s’installer à Casablanca. Elle y travaille comme journaliste et crée les personnages des Mounikettes, exposés dans plusieurs villes du Maroc ainsi qu’en France, et également publiés dans la presse marocaine. En 2011, elle a remporté le 1er prix du concours littéraire « Une mer de mots ».
32 pages - 17 illustrations, dont une à colorier - 60 MAD - ISBN : 978-9954-494-12-7
Disponible en français et en arabe - à partir de 7 ans
Contact : Karine JOSEPH
Box 121, Rondebosch, 7701
Cape Town
South Africa
Tél: +27 72 77435 46
www.modjajibooks.co.za
Modjaji Books is an independent feminist press that publishes southern African women writers. Modjaji Books fills a gap by providing a platform for serious and ground-breaking writing by new and established women writers with brave voices. We publish short stories, novels, memoir, biography, poetry, essays, narrative non-fiction, reference books and relevant non-fiction.
The history of publishing in South Africa is enmeshed with the culture of resistance that flourished under apartheid. Struggle literature may have emerged from the underground, but women’s voices and particularly black women’s voices – are still marginalized. Modjaji Books addressed this inequality by publishing books that are true to the spirit of Modjaji, the rain queen: a powerful female force for good, new life and regeneration.
In a few short years, Modjaji titles have won a number of prizes or been short-listed for prizes. The prizes include the Ingrid Jonker prizes for debut poetry, short-listings for the Sunday Times fiction prize, several SALA prizes as well as a short-listing for the Caine Prize.
Modjaji is the name of the Rain Queen in the northern part of South Africa. As South Africa is mostly a dry country - rain is very important!
Read here an interview of Colleen HIGGS, Read African Books (African Books Collective).
Karen LAZAR
“Home is as old as one’s skin but as elusive as an object seen through the wrong end of a telescope.” It is this sense of a view, skewed, intangible, which echoes throughout Karen Lazar’s Hemispheres. Waking in hospital after a post-operative stroke, she finds one side of her body paralysed and her world knocked out of kilter. Spatial, perceptual and subjective changes force her to view her new life in facets. The fragmented view is made apparent by means of a triptych of clusters which charts Karen’s experience from Metamorphosis, through Rehabilitation and Adaptation. Quietly reflective, deeply lyrical, Hemispheres is concerned with returning separated parts into a whole and coming home to the self.
Praise from Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African Literature, Wits University:
“ ‘A stroke on one hemisphere of the brain crosses over to manifest … on the opposite side of the body’.
What does it mean to find oneself suddenly living at this lethal crossing? This exquisite book illuminates how to live with and beyond loss. A superb filigree of acute and finely-crafted pieces, Hemispheres narrates the journey of re-composing life, joy and love from the ‘foreign citadel’ of a body made alien through stroke.
Wry, ironic, comic, joyous, desolate, celebratory, surreal, this mosaic of feeling reconfigures love from loss; each subtle fragment a tessera against time.
As the pieces delve deep into the self, they reach beyond it. The rehabilitation hospital reeks of personal loss even as it becomes a microcosm of contemporary South Africa. Broken bodies deformed by carnage and violence accumulate in the ward. The medical hierarchy enacts deep-seated forms of South African authoritarianism, the losses of the past inflicted and self-inflicted in petty and cruel ways.
The book becomes a quiet odyssey of affirming life in the face of death. The pieces themselves, weightless and profound, light and dark, half and whole, mirror the contradictions of wrenching life from loss.”
Praise from Joanne Fedler:
“A collection of rare/nuanced and tender insights. Lazar takes us into the gyre of re-orientation post-stroke, sharing what is lost and what is claimed when what you’ve always been and known, changes. A book that pulses with quiet courage and celebrates it in others.”
Karen LAZAR is an English educator at the Wits School of Education. Her MA and Phd, both from Wits, are in South African gender studies. This is Karen’s first volume of (first person) creative nonfiction. Karen had a stroke in 2001, from which she has partially recovered. She lives in Johannesburg.
Publication date: May 2011 - 88 pages - format:136 x 210 mm - price: R145 - ISBN: 978-1-920397-24-1
Jennifer THORPE (author and editor) - the contributors include: Jen THORPE, Karabo KGOLENG (well known radio and media personality), Sarah BRITTEN, and Dorothy BLACK, as well as many other women.
Do you remember your first time?
As women, we all have a story within us about a sexual experience that was unforgettable. Perhaps it was incredible, earth shattering, life-changing, and wonderful. Perhaps it wasn’t romantic or pleasurable, but awkward, painful or forced upon us. Many of us have kept our experiences secret because, by exposing our stories, we expose ourselves and our feelings around sex.
In My First Time, Southern African women have shared their stories about their significant first time experiences of sex and sexuality. This is a collection of honest, powerful, and brave accounts. Some joyful, others funny and some heartbreaking, but all of them important for women, and hopefully men, to read.
This is the perfect book for you to read to reflect on your own first times. This is the perfect book to share with your mother, siblings, and friends.
Jennifer THORPE is a feminist writer. She’s passionate about sharing women’s stories and women’s writing. She is the creator and curator of stories for the My First Time project and the editor of FeministsSA.com. Jennifer has an MA in Politics from Rhodes University and is studying towards an MA in Creative Writing at UCT. She lives in Cape Town with her boyfriend Mike and her two cats.
Publication date: September 2012 - 174 pages - format: 136 X 210 mm - price: R160 - ISBN: 978-1-920590048
Yewande OMOTOSO
Praise for Bom Boy from Nuruddin Farah, author of Links, Knots & Crossbones:
"This is a novel bursting with elegance, written by a young author
brimming with genuine promise. Yewande Omotoso is a stylist with a
literary vision."
Praise for Bom Boy from Joanne Hichens, author of Divine Justice:
’Bom Boy surprises and delights, sings at turns, as it straddles the past and the present, bringing into focus cultural beliefs while examining the intimacies and complexities of bonds of family and friendship. What strikes me most is the originality. This fine debut, firmly rooted in contemporary consciousness, is story-telling of note which whets the appetite for more.’
Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people, stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure. Through a series of letters written to him by his Nigerian father whom he has never met, Leke learns about a family curse; a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bom Boy is a well-crafted and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.
Yewande OMOTOSO was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria with her Nigerian father, West Indian mother and two older brothers. She and her family moved to South Africa in 1992 and have lived there ever since. She is an architect; space and buildings being a passion of hers second only to words and literature. She currently lives in Cape Town working as a designer, freelance writer and novelist.
Publication date: September 2011 - 272 pages - format: 135 X 210 mm - price: R180 - ISBN: 978-1-920397-35-7
Contact : Colleen HIGGS
Graines de Pensées publishing aims to contribute to the cultural expression of Africa, to the development of critical thinking and of a democratic and pluralistic society through the book.
They are concerned with offering accessible books to African children, adapted to their realities and aspirations and of impeccable editorial quality. In addition, for a better dissemination of the book, they participate in co-publishing projects with partners from the South and the North. They also work for synergies with institutions and companies for a better promotion of the book in French and African languages.
Graines de Pensées publishing started their activities in 2005 with a solid editorial experience and broad network of contacts in the French and English editorial sectors through the International Organization of the Francophonie, the African Training Centre for Publishing and Dissemination (CAFED), the Network of African Publishers (APNET) and the Afrilivres Association.
Contact : Yasmin ISSAKA-COUBAGEAT
Box 45095
SE - 104 30 Stockholm
Sweden
Tél: (+46-08) 32 30 80
www.ferdosi.com
Based in Stockholm and founded in 1984, Ferdosi has, in addition to being a publisher, been a key distributor and supplier of books and periodicals.
We cooperate with publishers and distributors throughout the world in order to provide individual and organizational clients with their requests and demands, through our contact services and multilingual website. Ferdosi has a broad list of Persian books published throughout the past 30 years by a range of publishers outside Iran. The list is available on Ferdosi´s website and can be searched by the title, name of the writer, etc.
Ferdosi works with libraries worldwide as a main supplier for minority languages published outside the country of origin. Individual customers equally benefit from our service through Ferdosi´s website.
As a publisher, Ferdosi has published valuable books in Persian and Swedish, mostly dealing with Persian literature, or informative texts about Iran and the Middle East.
Ferdosi publishes a Persian-Swedish magazine under the title of Norrsken (Northern Light), which is intended to be a step toward preserving Persian literature and culture among Farsi speaking and non-Iranians interested in Persian language and culture.
Ferdosi is the name of Iranian national poet who wrote the famous book for Shahnameh to rescue Persian language from Arabic influence.
Pasaje Rivarola 115
1015 Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tél: +(5411) 43 83 62 62
www.lamarcaeditora.com
Founded on 1992 by Guido Indij, la marca editora is an independent publisher specialized in art, photography, essays and poetry. In the last few years it has ventured into the publication of multiple numbered portfolios and experimental art books, along with more famous authors such as Michel Foucault, J-F Lyotard, Paul Virilio, J-L Nancy, Sylviane Agacinscki. The main innovation of la marca editora is to experience in the relation between formats and contents. Thus, in each project it looks to extend the limits of the concept of what is known as a “book“.
Cuando creamos la marca hace 25 años, sabíamos que queríamos producir cultura y creatividad. Y sabíamos que para eso debíamos forjar una marca. El primer sistema de isologos que nos entregó el estudio de diseño incluía la marca videos, la marca cine, la marca música, la marca diseño y la marca editora. Aunque desde que alineamos una estrategia de trabajo y solo usamos el último...
Listen here the interview with Guido Indij, directed by the CERLALC, September 2018.
Contact : Guido INDIJ
6 de Diciembre N26-97 y la Niña
Edificio Brother, piso 3, ap. 17-03-4629
Quito
Ecuador
Tél: (+593) 222 7948 / (+593) 222 7949
www.editorialelconejo.com/contactese.html
El Conejo is a not-for-profit publishing house, focussing on the publication of books by Ecuadorian authors and the promotion of reading to children, young people and adults. Since its inception in 1979, it has added considerably to its backlist and has become the leading publishing house in Ecuador. It boasts some 500 works in its catalogue, including books, cultural supplements and fascicules, with as its backdrop the protection of liberty and democracy. Its editorial line is to promote Ecuadorian and Latin-American literature, in a wide variety of genres: novels, short stories, poetry, plays, human and social sciences. It has gained respect and support from Ecuadorian institutions and intellectuals.
Michael HANDELSMAN
Olaf BERWALD
Vengo de Ecuador, un país pequeño que está sobre la línea equinoccial (de allí su nombre) una línea imaginaria que marca la división de los hemisferios Norte y Sur. Importa el símbolo. Ahora que, en términos económicos y culturales, el mundo está dividido entre un Norte rico, hegemónico, y un Sur “periférico” y dependiente, es preciso pensar la relación entre estos dos mundos tan distantes entre sí pero tan vinculados por la globalización.
La globalización del mundo puede ser entendida bajo dos perspectivas:
1) Como un hecho pragmático que no podemos desconocer, pues siguiendo a Wallerstein, ésta se inició hace 500 años con el comienzo del capitalismo, y ha logrado su concreción mayor en estos tiempos gracias a los nuevos soportes tecnológicos de la comunicación e interdependencia de los mercados.
2) Como un hecho culltural, ideológico e imperial que, en gran medida, ha significado la norteamericación del mundo, como dice Less, uno de los coautores del libro.
Se trata de una obra colectiva, miscelánea, en la que diversos autores de diversas procedencias, reflexionan o muestran, incluso literalmente (en los ensayos) y literariamente (porque contiene un capítulo sobre la guerra de Irak), las relaciones Norte Sur, desde la ralidad de la globalización.
Se trata de un libro audaz, pero cargado de sentidos. Caleidoscópico, múlltiple, escrito en español, inglés y alemán, según sean los idiomas de sus autores es, en sí mismo, la metáfora cabal en la que diferentes rincones del mundo acogen, de una manera diversa, entre la aceptación y la resistencia, los patrones globalizantes.
El libro ha sido compuesto, deliberadamente, por los profesores Michael Handelsman y Olaf Berwald, como un proyecto para la Alianza de Editores Independientes: su visión crítica calza, perfectamente, con los ideales quizá de la totalidad de las editoriales que la forman.
Los autores admitirán los cambios que cada editor proponga, en su edición propia, “siempre y cuando no afecten el sentido inicial del libro”.
Editorial El Conejo de Quito, Ecuador, una corporación sin fines de lucro, que cumple ya 30 años de sostenida labor en la producción de libros suministrará, a las editoriales interesadas, todos los materiales y contactos necesarios para facilitar su labor, incluso, si lo desean, las artes finales listas para su impresión.
Conforme reza la convocatoria de la Alianza para esta reunión, hemos tratado de aliarnos para salir del aislamiento, para ser más fuertes juntos, para responder mejor a los desafíos de la globalización de la edición y a los riegos que le son vinculados (en particular, el proceso de homogeneización de los contenidos). Creo que este proyecto que presentamos afirma tal propósito.
El especial momento político que vive la gran mayoría de nuestros países latinoamericanos no descarta la posibilidad de que ministerios de cultura, o movimientos sociales*, respalden, incluso económicamente, nuestra propuesta.
2009 - 270 páginas - 15 USD - ISBN : 978-9978-87-378-6
Contact : Santiago LARREA
40/1 Purana Paltan
Dhaka 1000
Bangladesh
Tél: +880 (0)2 9564799/7176
www.ankur-prakashani.com
Ankur Prakashani started its journey in the year 1984 as a publisher of books on various topics. Now Ankur has established itself as one of the leading publishers in Bangladesh. Particular focus areas are books on social development issues, women liberalization, health, fiction and nonfiction, as well as children’s and youth literature.
Ankur arranges co-publications with renowned foreign publishers: Tulika (India), South Asia Publication (India), UBSPD (India), and Impart (U.K). Ankur publishes Bengali versions of quality bestselling books and also imports and exports books and journals on a wide range of subjects.
Ankur publishes books of renowned national and international authors like: Dr. Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, Dr. Kamal Hossain Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, Humayun Ahmed, Taslima Nasrin, Syed Shamsul Haque, Dr. Ali Riaz, Dr. Hasanuzzaman, Dr. Ali Manwar, Dr. Fazlul Alam, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Dr. Heide Richter, Shorodindu Shekhar Chakma, Sunil Gangapadhyay, Astrid Lindgren, J.K. Rowling, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Contact : Mesbahuddin AHMED
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.
Benjamin STORA
À quand un couple algéro-marocain, indispensable moteur d’un Maghreb des régions ?
Une telle perspective réclame, de ces deux pays qui ont la même langue, la même culture, la même religion, de regarder sans fard ni complaisance leur passé, y compris le plus récent, pour préparer l’avenir.
Fort d’une vision comparatiste des deux « faux-frères» du Maghreb, Benjamin Stora apporte ici une contribution majeure, loin des silences officiels, des manichéismes simplificateurs ou des masques de circonstances.
Luttes d’indépendance, nationalisme arabe, Islam, litige saharien, minorités berbérophones, enjeux de mémoire, l’auteur nous révèle des singularités, mais aussi des imaginaires communs qui pourraient augurer d’un Maghreb uni et démocratique.
Benjamin STORA, professeur à l’INALCO, auteur de nombreux ouvrages, est considéré comme l’un des meilleurs spécialistes du Maghreb.
Nouvelle édition : janvier 2010 - (première parution : 2001) - 208 pages - 14 X 21 cm - 19 € - ISBN : 978-2-914773-30-0 - Essai
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 1968 par Gallimard… qui ne l’a jamais mis en vente ! A la demande de la famille de l’auteur, menacée de mort par Duvalier et ses tontons macoutes qui faisaient alors régner la terreur sur Haïti.
Livre culte, unanimement salué comme l’un des chefs d’œuvres de la littérature francophone, le texte a circulé sous le manteau avant d’être réédité en 2005 chez Zellige.
Avec ce roman dérangeant et provocateur, Marie Vieux-Chauvet dénonce le cynisme, l’hypocrisie, les injustices et le compromissions qui font le lit des dictatures. Même si souvent, dans un sursaut tragique et digne, ses personnages atteindront à la rédemption.
Marie VIEUX-CHAUVET, née en 1916 à Port-au-Prince, est morte à New York en 1973, après avoir dû fuir Haïti. Considérée comme l’un des écrivains les plus importants de la francophonie, elle est également l’auteur d’un roman historique dont l’action se déroule à la fin du XIXe siècle, lors des prémisses de la révolution haïtienne, La Danse sur le volcan (Zellige).
Parution : 2005, réimprimé en 2007, 2008, 2009 - 384 pages - 14 X 21 cm - 24 € - ISBN : 978-2-914773-08-9 - Roman
Ibn AL-MUQAFFA
Une nouvelle traduction, fluide et agréable de ce classique de la littérature arabe (Le Temps, Genève)
Étudié dans toutes les classes, de Bagdad à Marrakech, traduit en plus de vingt langues, Kalila et Dimna est l’une des œuvres majeures de la littérature arabe.
Ces contes animaliers, s’enchâssant les uns dans les autres à l’instar des Mille et une nuits, également d’origine indienne, circulent en Perse avant qu’Ibn al-Muqaffa n’en livre la version de référence.
Au-delà de préceptes moraux, s’affirme ici un manuel de bonne gouvernance et du vivre-ensemble où la ruse supplante la force, et le sage le despote.
D’emblée, Kalila et Dimna a fasciné maints chefs politiques, qu’il s’agisse d’Al-Mansur, de Philippe le Bel ou d’Alphonse X de Castille. Quant à La Fontaine, il ne cacha pas y avoir puisé une part de son inspiration.
Né à Djur (aujourd’hui Fîrûzâbâd, en Irak) autour de 720, Ibn AL-MUQAFFA, écrivain reconnu, se servit du livre de Kalila et Dimna pour dénoncer le pouvoir absolu, la corruption, le népotisme et inciter à une réflexion sur l’amélioration de la société. Mal lui en prit, condamné à mort par le calife, il fut brûlé vif à Bagdad en 759.
2007 - 160 pages - 24 aquarelles originales - 16 X 24 cm - 17 € - ISBN : 978-2-914773-06-4 - Contes
Contact : Roger TAVERNIER
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.
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 ce qui devait être un paisible voyage
jusqu’à Marrakech, va se transformer en une course poursuite après un
étrange individu. Que trafique-t-il à la tombée de la nuit dans les
ruelles de Tanger ? Que cherche-t-il dans les ruines de Volubilis ?
D’autant qu’il semblerait que les enfants ne soient pas tout seuls sur
les traces de cet homme...
À partir de 9 ans
2009 - 114 pages en noir & blanc -
12 x 18 - ISBN: 978-9954-0-0077-1
Mohammed
DIB - illustrations de Virginie SOUMAGNAC
Bilingue arabe / français
Il y a bien longtemps, un méchant sorcier était servi par un petit
garçon du nom de Salem. Un jour, le sorcier entendit quelqu’un frapper
à la porte de sa maison. Il ordonna à Salem d’aller ouvrir. Ce dernier
refusa. Quelle fut sa punition ?
Collection Hikayat - à partir de 4 ans
2003 - broché, 28 pages -
18 x 19 - ISBN: 9954-0-0040-2
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 l’école. Elle aimerait bien y aller aussi, mais elle doit aider sa maman à faire le ménage, laver le linge, aller chercher l’eau au puits...
Aura-t-elle une place à l’école un jour ?
Collection Rêves d’enfants - à partir de 7 ans
2005 - 40 pages en couleurs - 17 x 24 - ISBN : 9954-0-0061-5
Contact : Nadia ESSALMI
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).
Read here the interviews with Ritu Menon:
Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Food Insecurity - by Vandana Shiva
“One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”
—The Guardian
“The South’s best-known environmentalist.”
— New Internationalist
CLIMATE CHANGE will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people.
In Soil Not Oil, bestselling author Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. Bold and visionary, Shiva reveals how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
Condemning industrial agriculture and industrial biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva’s champion is the small, independent farm. What we need most in a time of changing climates and millions hungry, she argues, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale food production, Shiva outlines our remaining options; a market-centred shortterm escape for the privileged, which will deepen the crisis for the poor and marginalized, or a people-centred fossil-fuel-free future, which will offer a decent living for all.
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin and the Slow Food movement. Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993. She is the author of many books, including Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed (2007), and Globalization’s New Wars: Seed, Water & Life Forms (Women Unlimited, 2005). Before becoming an activist, Vandana Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
May 2009 - 164 pages - paperback - Rs. 225 - ISBN: 978-81-88965-55-3
Sexual Economies in Contemporary Bombay Cinema - by Karen Gabriel
This insightful analysis of popular Bombay cinema presents a comprehensive discussion of its contemporary history, background, financing and social and political underpinnings. It maps the cultural landscape of this medium, tracing the relationship between the state, cinema and society. It reviews the ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated in the organisation of images, and demonstrates how heterosexuality operates as a stabiliser within this constellation. More generally, it looks at the emergence of heroes and anti-heroes, at the changing faces of masculinity, at femininity and the regulation of desire, and at Bollywood’s construction of gender, sexuality and the nation.
Karen Gabriel is currently Fellow, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. She has taught at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and works on issues of gender and sexuality.
350 pages - paperback - Rs. 450 - ISBN: 81-88965-49-9
Edited by
Samir Kumar Das & Rada Ivekovic
Terror has had different philosophies in history; and philosophies have their own engagement with terror. Can these two realities be judged historically? The question is important not only because today’s world is marked by different kinds of terror – individual, state, anarchist, revolutionary, religious, communal, but that these have different ideological and philosophical justifications which must be understood in their differential particularities, especially when these particularities are sought to be obliterated by the use of the term, ‘terrorism’, and its perceived practitioners as ‘terrorists’.
This book includes papers on important issues such as: terror as historical event; terror as a generalised discourse of ideology; terror as a feature in the continuum of violence; terror as ‘extreme violence’; war on terror, and the need for legitimacy; race, gender, difference, and the instruments of colonial terror; the early nationalists as the early terrorists; post-colonialism, societies, and terror; terror as the final marker of identity ascribed, undertaken, imposed; Enlightenment on terror and Philosophy’s engagement with terror.
The contributors include well-known international academics and philosophers: Artemy Magun; Ivaylo Ditchev; Stephen Wright; Daho Djerbal; Ranabir Samaddar; Didier Bigo; Paula Banerjee; Virgilio Alfonso da Silva; Pradip Kumar Bose; Alain Brossat, Samir Kumar Das; Shahnaz Rouse; Bechir Chourou; Boyan Manchev; and Francisco Naishtat. The editors are Samir Kumar Das, Professor at Calcutta University, political scientist, and author and editor of many publications; and Rada Ivekovic, Professsor of Philosophy and Programme Director at the Collège international de philosophie, and has written several books.
October 2009 - 300 pages - ISBN: 81-88965-56-1
Contact : Ritu MENON
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.
Contact : Indira CHANDRASEKHAR
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.
Contact : Jutta HEPKE
Responsable : Gilles COLLEU
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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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.
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 témoin privilégié qu’il plonge dans l’intimité du pouvoir, relate des faits jusque-là inconnus du grand public. Ce livre a le mérite d’exposer avec sérénité des événements tantôt tragiques, tantôt loufoques, dans le dessein de refuser l’oubli, et de mieux comprendre cette tyrannie qui a endeuillé les familles haïtiennes, afin de sortir du cercle de l’impunité et de la logique bourreaux-victimes. Découvrez les frasques d’un pouvoir qui fige depuis un demi-siècle l’histoire et l’imaginaire d’Haïti.
Jean FLORIVAL est né en 1930 en Haïti. Journaliste, proche du régime duvaliériste, il a fréquenté le milieu du pouvoir haïtien. Ami et conseiller de ministres et de dignitaires du régime de 1957 à 1967. Se sentant menacé, il choisit l’exil en 1967, et part à New-York, puis s’installe en 1973 au Québec, où il a travaillé dans l’enseignement. Il partage son temps aujourd’hui entre la lecture, les conférences et l’écriture.
2008 - 29,95 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923153-92-6 - collection «Chroniques»
Jean BERNABÉ
Une dizaine de personnages, hauts en couleurs, issus de différents milieux sociaux et castes de la Martinique, sont mis en scène. Tous ces personnages, bigarrés, cocasses, hilarants, tournent sous le couvert d’un mouvement écologiste militant pour le changement social et se renvoient intrigues et hostilités. Le narrateur, pour différentes raisons, est l’objet de toutes les menaces. Jalousies, amertumes, ressentiments – mais aussi naïveté, trait d’esprit et générosité – servent de marqueurs à ces récits.
Jean BERNABÉ est né au Lorrain en Martinique en 1942. Écrivain et linguiste, il est le co-fondateur avec Patrick Chamoiseau et Raphaël Confiant du mouvement littéraire « La Créolité ». Il a été durant plusieurs années le Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université des Antilles et de la Guyane.
En 1983, il publie “Fondal Natal”, la première thèse de Doctorat sur le créole antillais. En 1989, il signe avec Chamoiseau et Confiant, l’important manifeste Éloge de la créolité. Il participe ensuite à la reconnaissance du créole dans le milieu universitaire et scolaire par l’intermédiaire de la création du CAPES de créole. Fondateur du GEREC-F (Groupe de recherches et d’études en espace créole et francophone), il est l’auteur d’importants ouvrages dans le domaine de la syntaxe du créole, ainsi que de nombreux articles de sociolinguistique et de littérature.
2009 - 24,95 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923713-01-4 - collection «Roman»
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 l’œuvre et la pensée des auteurs du mouvement de la négritude comme Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire et Léon-Gontran Damas.
“Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est suivi du collectif Revisiter l’Oncle qui réévalue les incidences et résonances de cette œuvre dans le monde entier. Revisiter l’Oncle accueille les textes de Maryse Condé, Dany Laferrière, Jean-Daniel Lafond, Raphaël Confiant, André Corten, Jean Bernabé, Léon-François Hoffmann, Maximilien Laroche, Jean Morisset, et bien d’autres.
Réédité dans un nouveau format, avec une iconographie nouvelle (paysages et figures de l’Afrique et d’Haïti), l’ouvrage propose une relecture de cette œuvre monumentale qui a servi de bréviaire aux intellectuels des peuples noirs. Pour penser le monde, pour comprendre les mécanismes de l’aliénation, soit du «bovarysme culturel», Jean Price-Mars a mis en avant les traditions, les légendes populaires, le vaudou et tout l’héritage africain qui fondent les cultures noires.
2009 - 39,50 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923713-03-8 - collection «Essai»
Contact : Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI
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