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Review of Lucille Cairns. Francophone Jewish Writers: Imagining Israel. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2015. x + 310 pp.

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles's Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (2014) is a stunning first book by a dynamic scholar working at the intersection of Africana Studies, Human Rights Studies, and Feminist Studies, not to mention literary studies in French. Jean-Charles's title "Conflict Bodies" gestures both to the context of "conflict zones" as identified by human rights institutions, and it also refers to how the body of the victim-survivor is at once one that has survived, but whose survival reinscribes the body with new subjectivities, subjectivities that are informed both by the extremely intimate, and by the vastly globalized. In other words, as the fictions, photo essays, memoirs, and cinema analyzed by Jean-Charles demonstrate, rape is not just more visible in the conflict zone, it is literally used as a weapon of war, wars that are officially recognized as such, and wars that take place under the auspices of "peacekeeping" missions. That is, the raped body is one that has recorded a specific "script of violence" (9), which has been generated not by any one perpetrator, but by "the epistemic violence of colonialism and postcolonialism" (Ibid.).

This article is focused on Professor Buikema's intellectual oeuvre and the relation between art and politics as it materialised in MOED (Museum of Equality and Difference). Astrid Kerchman and Rosa Wevers, MOED's former project coordinators, reflect on their collaboration with Buikema through an interview with artist Iris Kensmil on the important role of art in complex social issues relating to emancipation, representation, and resistance. Drawing on the interview with Kensmil and Buikema's Revolts in Cultural Critique (2020), Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken reflects on the meaning of feminist leadership within an institutional context.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Non-sovereignty and the Neoliberal Challenge: Contesting Economic Exploitation in the Eastern Caribbean -- Part I. Neoliberalism, Identity, and Resistance in the Départements d'Outre-Mer -- 1. Bridging the Divide to Face the Plantationocene: The Chlordecone Contamination and the 2009 Social Events in Martinique and Guadeloupe -- 2. From the Film Nèg maron (2004) to the Manifeste pour les "produits" de haute nécessité (2009): Youth Dispossession, General Strikes, and Alternative Economies in the French Caribbean -- 3. Artists against Exploitation: The L'Herminier Museum Squat as a Demonstration against "la Vie Chère" -- 4. Martinique, or the Greatness and Weakness of Spontaneity: A View of February 2009 -- 5. Neoliberalism and Caribbean Economies: Martinique, Guadeloupe, and the Exploitative Strategies of Metropolitan Capital -- Part II. Neoliberalism and the Paradoxes of Non-sovereignty in the Wider Caribbean -- 6. Criminalization, Punitive Neoliberalism, and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement -- 7. Developing Disasters: Industrialization, Austerity, and Violence in Haiti since -- 8. A "New" Antillean DOM Arts Scene, or the Pragmatic Aesthetics of Patience: Artincidence, Annabel Guérédrat, Daniel Goudrouffe, Henri Tauliaut, and Jeannette Ehlers -- 9. Buskando nos mes: Giving Meaning to National Identity in Curaçao, Past and Present -- 10. The Parallels and Paradoxes of Postcolonial Sovereignty Games in the Dutch and French Caribbean: The End of the Netherlands Antilles and Construction of New Dutch Caribbean Political Entities and Relations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index