Author Biography
Nicole Ollier, Professor emeritus at the University Bordeaux-Montaigne, completed her entire career there. She began as a linguist, grew as an Americanist with a Doctorate on Mark Twain, specialized in Greek American studies (Monumental Doctorate in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle), widened her field to Minority Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies, but also Caribbean Literature. Via her practice of Poetry Collaborative Translation, and her creation of « Passages », she explored such Caribbean Voices as Olive Senior (Un Pipiri m’a dit / A Little Bird Told Me, Castor Astral, Bègles, 2014), Lorna Goodison, (La Mangue de la Poésie / The Mango of Poetry, PU Bordeaux, 2018) and a selection of various others, but also Afro-American, Kamau Daaood (Notes d’un Griot de L.A. / Griot Notes from L.A., Castor Astral, 2012), Melba Boyd, and more recently Japanese-American, with Amy Uyematsu. The idea of a conference on Transmission in the Caribbean area was inspired from a magnificent exhibition on that theme created by Professor and plastician Patricia Donatien who gave her a private tour of it in Fort de France, and remained an emblem of this transmission, particularly through generations of women.
