Bonne année tout le monde! Happy 2025! We cannot think of a better way to start the year than by looking ahead with one of the most compelling young authors of the French Antilles. Michael Roch has been quite busy, collaboratively theorizing a new Caribbean Afrofuturism, Afrofuturisme 3.0, along with Nadia Chonville (Mon coeur bat vite, 2023) and Laura Nsafou (Nos jours brûlés, 2022), and writing novels and short stories in the genre. The Kwazman Vwa team has been buzzing about his latest collection of short stories, Lanvil emmêlée, just recently published with La Volte. With this set of works, Roch adds to the seemingly ever-expanding universe of his watershed novel Tè Mawon, which introduced us to Lanvil, a megalopolis spanning the entire Caribbean arc, including southern Florida. Roch’s work invites us to think and re-think our relationship with technology, the non-human, and each other, as we look ahead to a future increasingly marked by natural catastrophes but also always and forever en voie de créolisation. This conversation will be in French! Register by filling out the form below. We can’t wait to see you!
January 27, 2025, at 1 p.m. EST
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