Madeleine Dobie, selected bibliography
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery, Vol. 1: Slavery, Literature and the Emotions. The sixteen chapters of this volume explore slavery as a site of both obvious and less obvious emotional experience, address changing historical conceptualizations of the emotions and highlight ongoing debates about sentiment and affect. I wrote the volume introduction and a chapter on race and affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s 1835 novel, Marie, ou l’esclavage.
Co-written with historian Myriam Cottias, Relire Mayotte Capécia: une femme des Antilles dans l'espace colonial français is a critical re-edition of two mid twentieth-century novels by the Martinican writer, Mayotte Capécia. In an introductory essay to the novels, we explore the fascinating convergence of race, gender, colonialism and the Vichy regime that formed the context of these two polygraphic texts.
Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in 18th-Century French Culture, examines the place of slavery in eighteenth-century French literature, philosophy and material culture, particularly textiles and furniture. It focuses on the longstanding silence surrounding colonial slavery and on processes of displacement and disavowal.
A Comparative Literary History of Slavery, Vol. 1: Slavery, Literature & the Emotions (ICLA’s Comparative Histories of Literature in European Languages series, John Benjamins, 2025)
Maryse Condé: a Writer for our Times, Yale French Studies 140, 2022. Co-editor with Kaiama Glover
Remembering Assia Djebar cluster, Romanic Review 106.1-2
Spring 2017
Thinking the Postcolonial in French cluster, Romanic Review 104: 3-4,
Fall 2013. Co-editor with Emmanuelle Saada
Africans in France/France in Africa, special issue, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 26:2, 2006. Co-editor with Rebecca Saunders
“Following the Threads: Reading Eighteenth-Century Texts and Textiles against the Grain,” forthcoming in L’Esprit créateur, Winter 2024
“Race and Affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, ou l’esclavage,” A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery, Vol. 1. John Benjamins, 2025
“Slavery, Literature and the Emotions,” Volume 1 Introduction, A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery, John Benjamins, 2025
“Shérazade en 1982,” forthcoming in Leila Sebbar, d’une rive l’autre, croiser l’intime et le politique, Actes du colloque de Cérisy, Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, 2024
“Terrorisme,” Dictionnaire Assia Djebar, eds. Maya Boutaghou & Anne Donadey, Honoré Champion, forthcoming fall 2024
“Rescripting the fait divers: Counternarratives of Race and Migration in Literature and Journalism from the 1970s to the Present.” With Olivia Harrison. Déplacements de la fiction, Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 24, 2024, 1-20
“Linguistic Democracy and the Algerian hirak,” Global Language Justice: Ecology, Diversity, Digital Vitality, eds. Lydia Liu & Anupama Rao (Columbia University Press, 2023)
“Introduction,” Maryse Condé: a Writer for our Times,” Yale French Studies 140, spring 2023
“Politics and Pluralism in Mohamed Arkoun and Abdenour Bidar,” “Pluralism in Emergencies,” special issue of Review of Middle East Studies 54:2, 2021, 1-17
“Migration and Representation, from the Bildungsroman to the Testimonial Genre,”
Transpositions: Migration, Translation, Music, ed. Alison Rice (Liverpool University Press, 2021)
“Daho Djerbal on Decolonizing Colonial History,” Exhibit Catalog, Looking for Omar Gatlato: a Survey of Algerian Contemporary Art. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and Sternberg Press (2020)
Contributor to “Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World Today,” eds. Emily Marker and Christy Pichichero, H-France Salon 11:2, March 2019
“Indigeneity, Orality and World Literature from Montaigne to Lévi-Strauss,” The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature, 2020
“Edward Said on The Battle of Algiers: the Maghreb, Palestine and Anticolonial Aesthetics,” boundary2, December 2018
“Locating Algerian Literature in World Literary Space,” Middle-Eastern Literatures, 20 (2017), 78-90
Introduction, “Remembering Assia Djebar,” Romanic Review 106.1-2, April 2017, 1-5
“The Battle of Algiers at 50: from 1960s Radicalism to the Halls of West Point,” L.A. Review of Books, September 26, 2016
“Our Camus Moment,” National Book Review, May 6, 2016
“Exemplary Victims and Opaque Agents: Remembering Algeria’s Black Decade, Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Between Victimhood and Agency, Routledge (June 2016)
“Assia Djebar: Writing between Land and Language,” PMLA 131:1 (2016)
“A Thousand Retellings: Hanan Al-Shaykh’s One Thousand and One Nights, a Retelling,” Public Books, July 2014
“For and Against the Mediterranean: Francophone Perspectives,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 34:2, 2014
“Captifs, ôtages, corsaires et terroristes : le discours méditerranéen à travers les disciplines,” Rue Descartes, Revue du Collège international de sociologie, June 2013
“Joséphine Baker et Mayotte Capécia : race et genre dans deux biographies transcoloniales,” Le postcolonial comparé, eds. Émilenne Baneth-Nouilhetas & Claire Joubert (Paris: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2014). With Myriam Cottias
“Patrimoine mobilier : entre colonialisme et orientalisme,” Les patrimoines de la traite négrière, In Situ, Revue des patrimoines 20, 2013
“Andrew Curran’s The Anatomy of Blackness,” H-FRANCE Forum 7:4:3, fall 2012, 8-43
“Postcolonialism,” Romanic Review 100th anniversary issue, 101: 3, fall 2011
“The Enlightenment at War,” PMLA 124: 5, 1851-54, October 2009
“Going Global: Diderot, 1770-1784,” Diderot Studies 31, 2009, 7-23