Matt Reeck

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Matt Reeck has won grants from the NEA, the Fulbright Foundation, and the PEN-Heim Fund. Forthcoming translations include Chamoiseau’s French Guiana: Memory-Traces of the Penal Colony and Zahia Rahmani’s “Muslim”: A Novel.

“Muslim”: A Novel by Zahia Rahmani
By Zahia Rahmani

Zahia Rahmani
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2019. 145 pages. The Algerian-born francophone writer Zahia Rahmani’s experimental prose poses a seemingly simple yet complex question: What does it mean to be a migrant o…
Weaving a Creole Patrimony
By Patrick Chamoiseau
Winter 2019
Patrick Chamoiseau
Camp de la Transportation in French Guiana. Photo: Rodolphe HammadiIn this excerpt from French Guiana: Memory-Traces of the Penal Colony, Chamoiseau explores the possibilities of rewritin…