A diverse, interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring what makes Maryse Conde a writer for our times

This volume of Yale French Studies is a collection of essays celebrating Maryse Conde’s work and legacy. It explores why she was chosen as the laureate of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature and considers what makes Conde a writer for our times. Diverse in their themes, forms, and disciplinary groundings, the essays consider how Conde’s writings have engaged with many of the urgent social, economic, and political issues of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, often anticipating and catalyzing public debates.