BUMIDOM (1963–1982) and its Afterlives

Literature, Memory and Migration

AvAntonia Wimbush

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This book investigates cultural representations of the BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer), a state-organised migration scheme which brought workers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and French Guiana to mainland France between 1963 and 1982. It argues that the French government has not sufficiently commemorated the BUMIDOM through national frameworks such as museums and education systems. This would mean admitting that participants, who were French citizens, were treated as racialised migrants and second-class-citizens. Through a series of original case studies spanning life writing, novels, films, bande dessinée, children’s fiction and music, the study demonstrates that it is cultural practitioners who, in the absence of adequate state representation, are undertaking this important memory work themselves. In a period in which Black identity is increasingly entering public debate in France, the book raises urgent questions about what it means to be a French citizen and a racial minority.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonisation, Queerness
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399521581

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Antonia Wimbush is Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. From 2020 to 2023 she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool. Her previous publications include Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile (2021) and Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture (2021), co-edited with Polly Galis and Maria Tomlinson. Her research interests include French Caribbean literature, literary representations of exile and migration, memory studies, and gender studies.

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Drawing on fieldwork, extensive archival research and analysis of a rich corpus of literature, music and film, Antonia Wimbush tells a story of migration from the Caribbean to Europe that has been largely silenced in France itself. Recovering occluded narratives and reflecting on their contemporary afterlives, this account of BUMIDOM as a postcolonial lieu de mémoire constitutes a highly significant intervention. The result is essential reading for all serious scholars and students of the French Caribbean, of post-war France – and of the histories of migration more broadly.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Memorialising Migration1. A History of the BUMIDOM2. Gender, Work and Race in Caribbean Life Writing3. National Identity, Diasporic Citizenship and Postdiaspora: The BUMIDOM in Fiction4. Racism and Classism in Film and Television5. Migration, Memory and Pedagogy in Graphic Novels and Children’s Fiction6. Music as Memory: The Legacy of the BUMIDOMConclusion: Remembering the BUMIDOM TodayBibliographyIndex