{"id":738,"date":"2021-02-27T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T02:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2021-02-27T02:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T02:15:33","slug":"highlighting-black-intellectuals-and-artists-around-the-world-maryse-conde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/highlighting-black-intellectuals-and-artists-around-the-world-maryse-conde\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Black Intellectuals and Artists Around the World: Maryse Cond\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\nJoin us in celebrating amazing Black intellectuals and artists around the world! Today we are celebrating Maryse Cond\u00e9 @maryseconde, an iconic author of over ten novels, short stories, essays, and articles on African and Caribbean literature.\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"739\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=739\" class=\"wp-image-739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"740\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=740\" class=\"wp-image-740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/kenner.dotsandspaces.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">You can find Maryse Cond\u00e9 on Instagram @maryseconde.<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMaryse Boucolon (later Cond\u00e9) was born in Guadeloupe in 1937. Her parents were among the first black instructors in Guadeloupe. Her mother, Jeanne Quidal, directed her own school for girls, and her father, who had been an educator, founded the small bank &#8220;Le Caisse Coop\u00e9rative des pr\u00eats&#8221; which was later renamed as &#8220;La Banque Antillaise.&#8221;\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\nCond\u00e9 began writing at an early age. Before the age of 12 she had written a one-act, one-person play, as a gift for her mother&#8217;s birthday.\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\nShe did not publish her first novel, H\u00e9r\u00e9makhonon until she was nearly 40 because, as she said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have confidence in myself and did not dare present my writing to the outside world.&#8221; Cond\u00e9 would not reach her current prominence as a contemporary Caribbean writer until the publication of her third novel, S\u00e9gou (1984). Following the success of S\u00e9gou, in 1985 Cond\u00e9 was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach in the US and became a professor of French and Francophone literature at Columbia University in New York City in 1995. Cond\u00e9 has taught at various universities, including the University of California, Berkeley; UCLA, the Sorbonne, The University of Virginia, and the University of Nanterre. She retired from teaching in 2005.\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\nCond\u00e9&#8217;s novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1986); the 19th-century Bambara Empire of Mali in S\u00e9gou (1984-1985); and the 20th-century building of the Panama Canal and its influence on increasing the West Indian middle class in Tree of Life (1987). Her novels trace the relationships between African peoples and the diaspora, especially the Caribbean. Her first novel H\u00e9r\u00e9makhonon, was published in 1976.\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\nA radical activist in her work as well as in her personal life, Cond\u00e9 has admitted: &#8220;I could not write anything&#8230; unless it has a certain political significance. 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