Michèle Kenfack publishes critical re-edition of 1903 Marcelin novel

Michèle Kenfack, a 2013 graduate of the MALLT program with a concentration in French-to-English translation and a former teaching assistant in French at UWM, recently published a critical re-edition of Frédéric Marcelin’s 1903 novel, Marilisse: roman haïtien. Kenfack, who is now a PhD student in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago, provided the introductory material for this first re-edition of the Haitian novel, published by L’Harmattan in their Autrement mêmes collection.

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