Toxic Tropics: Presentation by Jessica Oublié

Graphic novelist, journalist, and translator Jessica Oublié will discuss the English translation of her graphic novel Toxic Tropics about the legacy and aftermath of the use of a cancer-producing pesticide, Chlordecone, in the French West Indian islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.  

We invite members of WashU and the community to join us in a conversation with Oublié about Toxic Tropics and the effects of living in a polluted world. We will examine the relationship between humans, the environment, and the cultural shifts communities make in order to survive.

This is one of the culminating events of the French section’s “Semaine de la Francophonie” (Francophone Week) that spotlights a diversity of cultural perspectives and ideas from throughout the French-speaking world.

This event is sponsored by the French Connexions center of excellence, with the help of the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Literary Arts (CLA), and the departments of African and African American Studies (AFAS), Comparative Literature and Thought (CL&T), and Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL).

 

Monday March 24

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Public talk about Jessica Oublié’s graphic novel Toxic Tropics in Gingko Room in Olin Library

Tuesday March 25

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Jessica Oublié will lead a graphic novels workshop in Simon 022