Marys Condé
Director: Jérôme Sesquin
2011
52 minutes
Maryse Condé is one of the great voices of French literature. This Guadeloupean, writer and citizen of the world, has participated her whole life in the struggles against racism and xenophobia. From the French post-colonial history of Guadeloupe in the 1940s to the America of Obama in the 21st century, she made her voice heard through her novels and her political and cultural involvement for almost half a century. A teacher for over 20 years in the largest universities in the United States, she created the department of French literature at Columbia University where she taught until 2004. She now lives between Paris and New York and often comes to recharge her native island. Due to the strength of her commitments, she has received a number of honors and decorations, including recently that of Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit. It is this past full of battles and victories and this great lady full of humor that Jérôme Sesquin wants us to discover in this moving documentary.