Spring 2003
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The following is the Table of Contents from the Spring 2003 edition of Metamorphoses, a special issue on Francophone literature.
Some of the selections are linked and available on-line; the complete edition, including the original language versions for the poetry, is only available in print.
EDITORIAL
| THALIA PANDIRI | From the Editor in Chief | 13 | |
| DAVID AND NICOLE BALL | Introduction to the Special Francophone Issue | 16 |
AFRICA
| KAMA KAMANDA | The Paddles of Fate Translated from the French by Lauren Yoder (Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
34 | |
| CALLIXTHE BEYALA | Birth
of a Myth Translated from the French by Mariana Past (Cameroon) |
42 |
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| VÉRONIQUE TADJO | The
Wrath of the Dead, the Young Zaïrian Woman who Resembled a
Tutsi Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager (Ivory Coast) |
55 |
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| ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI | The Equator of the Heart; August, 1966 |
67 |
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| LEILA SEBBAR | The
Girl with a Red Sweater in Babel |
78 |
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| ANDREE CHEDID | The Lost Garden |
82 |
PACIFIC ISLANDS
| NICOLAS KURTOVITCH | With
Mask |
101 |
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| KARIN SPEEDY | Translating Socrates' "Creole" in Georges Badoux | 120 | |
| GEORGES BADOUX | Excerpt from Sauvages et Civilisés Introduced and translated by Karin Speedy (New Caledonia) |
CARIBBEAN
| FRANKÉTIENNE | The Noose |
135 | |
| RENÉ DEPESTRE | Caribbean Mother Sea In Free Praise of the French Language Images for an Anti-Autobiography Far from Jacmel Translated from the French by Nicole Ball (Haiti) |
172
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| YANNICK LAHENS | Moonbathing Translated from the French by Corinne Tachtiris (Haiti) |
188 |
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| MARIE-CÉLIE AGNANT | The House Facing the Sea Translated from the French by Christina Vander Vorst (Haiti) |
193 | |
| GISÈLE PINEAU | Amélie and the Anoles Translated from the French by Dawn Fulton (Guadeloupe) |
200 |
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| MYRIAM WARNER-VIEYRA | That Special Hour Translated from the French by Curtis Small (Guadeloupe) |
215 |
NORTH AMERICA
| VERSE FABLES from 19TH CENTURY LOUISIANA | Introduced by M. Lynn Weiss (United States) |
230 |
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| STEPHEN BERNARD | The Two Rabbits Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro |
234 |
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| JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | Le Lièvre et la tortue Untranslated (France) |
238 | |
| JULES CHOPPIN | The Hare and the Tortoise Translated from the Louisiana French Creole by Norman R. Shapiro |
240 | |
| JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | Le Chêne et le roseau Untranslated (France) |
242 |
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| JULES CHOPPIN | The Oak and the Reed Translated from the Louisiana French Creole by Norman R. Shapiro |
243 |
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| JOSEPH DÉJACQUE | The Oyster and the Pearl Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro |
244 |
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| CHARLES CHAUVIN BOISCLAIR DELÉRY | The Wasp and the Bee The Tree and the Mast Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro |
246 248 |
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| JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | La Cigale et la fourmi Untranslated (France) |
252 |
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| EDGAR GRIMA | The Cricket and the Ant Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro |
254 |
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| JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | Le Loup et la cigogne Untranslated (France) |
262 |
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| EDGAR GRIMA | The Wolf and the Stork Translated from the Louisiana French Creole by Norman R. Shapiro |
264 |
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| CAMILLE THIERRY | The Pirate's Mistress Regrets of the Old Mulatto Woman or Sanite Foueron's Distress Introduced and translated from the French and Creole by May Waggoner (Louisiana, United States) |
266 |
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| BEVERLY MATHERNE | The French Market: A Dramatic Monologue Elphia and the Rattlesnake: A Folktale Crawfishing: A Prose Poem Translated from the Cajun French by the author Halley's Comet by Stanley Kunitz translated into Cajun French by Beverly Matherne (Louisiana, United States) |
274 284
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| SYLVIE MASSICOTTE | Taurus Translated from the French by Jonathon Kaplansky (Quebec, Canada) |
288 |
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| GASTON MIRON | Girl Centuries of Winter Translated from the French by Paula Varsano (Quebec, Canada) |
294
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