An increasing number of Hexagonal novels are set in the United States and center on American personnalités. But beginning around 2010, the American presence in French writing has taken a markedly different turn, manifesting itself in several striking ways.

The influence of American fiction on the contemporary French novel is well known and frequently discussed. He is the author of Passage des larmes (Lattès, 2009), Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique (Lattès, 2006), Transit (Gallimard, 2003), and Balbala (Le Serpent à plumes, 1997). In addition to his scholarly activities, he is the author of La musique des illusions (Albin Michel, 2014), a novel.Ībdourahman Waberi is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at The George Washington University. Jean-Marc Moura is Professor of Comparative Literature and Francophone Literatures at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Her most recent book, French Moves: The Cultural Politics of le hip hop (Oxford, 2013) explores the urban dance of minorities in France. She is the author of Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine (Stanford, 1998) and Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Stanford, 2003). He has held a number of residencies, including at the Académie de France à Rome and University College Cork (Ireland).Īntoine Bello's latest novel is Les producteurs (Gallimard, 2015), the concluding installment of a trilogy that includes Les falsificateurs (2007) and Les éclaireurs (2009).įelicia McCarren is Professor of French at Tulane University.

In 2001, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt du Premier roman for Le chien d'Ulysse (Gallimard). Salim Bachi is the author of eight novels including, most recently, Le Consul (Gallimard, 2014). William Cloonan (FSU), Martin Munro (FSU), Jeannine Murray-Román (FSU), Corbin Treacy (FSU)

Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi