Études Francophones (Volume 38)

"Périphéries et confluences" About Volume 38: The articles assembled here investigate Francophone experience and expression from contexts often overlooked or under-examined in dominant discourses. Together, they constitute a polyphonic cartography of the Francophonie as it exists in motion—a space of negotiated meaning where language, memory, and aesthetics intersect. As editors, our guiding concept was to examine how peripheries meet, touch, or collide—how voices that emerge from apparent margins often produce the most urgent critiques of inherited hierarchies. We therefore wanted this issue to reflect the tension and complementarity of its title: peripheries not as endpoints, but as relational nodes; confluences not as harmonization, but as sites of encounter, sometimes discordant, always teaching us more about space, place, and (non-)belonging.   Table des Matières, vol. 38 (Été 2025) Preface: Peripheries and Confluences Claire-Marie Brisson De Zarta au Chkoupisme : le droit à l’opa