Programm

Press conference

- Presentation of the 5th edition of the congress.

A literary and cultural discussion

This event will have a strong cultural character geared to a dialogue between the other forms of artistic expression and literature. It is being organised in partnership with the DPLSH.

- Literature in relation to the different arts: from the traditional aesthetic confrontation to the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Opening ceremony
Mémorial ACTe
(Conference and performing arts hall)

Tribute to Guy Tirolien

Visit of the exhibitions

• 1st Congress of Black Writers and Artists held at the Sorbonne in 1956. Presentation of 40 posters relating this historical event, in partnership with Editions Présence Africaine.
• The winners of the Carbet High School Students Prize, in partnership with the Art Lycéen association.

• What intimate, identity and social issues affect such a choice?
• What influences on the writer’s work and on his/her representation of him/herself?

• Exclusions, discords and economic conflicts. The Caribbean is one of the places in the world where the problem of social disparities is the most acute. The place of these questions in authors’ writings and overcoming them through imagination.

Literary life in Colombia: the challenge of literature in peacetime

• Folk tales, audiences and rituals, assimilation, transformation and distance and the relation of the literary narrative to these practices

• The circulation of works in the original or in translation in the various Caribbean spaces. What are the expectations of authors and how to remedy the difficulties? How do authors perceive comments about their works?

1. Literary festivals in Colombia and Puerto Rico
2. Literary translation: a profession serving the diffusion of Caribbean literatures

• The Cuban revolution and the regime that followed it have raised contradictory questions for a large number of writers from the continental and insular Americas, among others. In Caribbean literatures, what does Cuba mean?

• The figure of the rebel has held a major place in the history and literatures of the Caribbean, from maroons to the figure of the revolutionary. Populations have also opposed colonial order and its prolongation with symbolic practices of rebellion and resistance. What is the situation today with regard to rebellion in Caribbean writings and imagination?

1. – Presentation of the activities report

2. – Presentation of the financial report
April 2015-April 2017

3. – Renewal of the board

4. – Prospects for 2017-2019

4.1 – What should we continue to do together?

• What Caribbean projects would it be relevant to develop together with regard to literature?
• What support for authors: writing residencies, aid for translation?
• What literary publications should be produced in addition to the publication and circulation of the papers of the congress?
• 6th congress

4. 2– How can we continue to work together?

• Financing of the 2019 congress

4.3- Literary events

• Carifesta, August 2017, Barbados

5. – Election of the board

6. – Questions and any other business