Hanétha Vete-Congolo
Associate Professor of Romance Languages Hanétha Vété-Congolo tells us about her summer researching gender and society in her native Martinique:
Once again I have had a very productive summer, during which I traveled to the Caribbean country of Martinique to continue field work undertaken a few years ago. Martinique is a French- and Creole- speaking country of fewer than 400,000 inhabitants. It is highly striking in many ways and prominent in the realm of postcolonial studies since it is the homeland of many key postcolonial thinkers such as Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon and Edouard Glissant.
This is a country that sprang out of two profoundly destructive systems, colonization and slavery, whose legacies continue to create many philosophical and political challenges and problems among the country’s critical constituents. Read more.