Jessica Oublié in conversation in French with Aubrey Gabel
A l’occasion de la publication aux Etats-Unis de Toxic Tropics: A Horror Story of Environmental Injustice by Street Noise, l’auteure de bande dessinée guadeloupéenne Jessica Oublié animera une conférence-débat sur ce qui est communément appelé en France le « scandale du chlordécone », pesticide utilisé dans la culture de la banane de 1972 à 1993 aux Antilles françaises. Elle reviendra également sur l’histoire américaine de ce pesticide, ses recherches, son processus de travail, sur la post-publication de l’album et la place qu’occupe aujourd’hui la question environnementale dans la BD française.
Jessica Oublié studied art history and was the editor of the magazine Africultures. She collaborated with artist Marie-Ange Rousseau on a graphic novel about institutionalized West Indian emigration (1920s-1960s), which won the France Culture Student Prize for Political Comics. After moving to Guadeloupe, Oublié became deeply engaged with the issue of chlordecone and its far-reaching impact on the health of both the land and its people.
Aubrey Gabel is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of French at Columbia University
This event is co-sponsored by The Maison Française, The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
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