Ledent Bénédicte

Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad.

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0000-0001-7770-0281
Main Referenced Co-authors
Tunca, Daria  (17)
Delrez, Marc  (8)
Collier, Gordon (4)
Gyssels, Kathleen (4)
Munos, Delphine  (4)
Main Referenced Keywords
Caryl Phillips (36); Caribbean Literature (9); Caribbean (6); Crossing the River (6); Caribbean literature (5);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège (163)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Literature (164)
Languages & linguistics (2)

Publications (total 164)

The most downloaded
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Ledent, B. (2009). Black British Literature. In D. Birch (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, seventh edition (pp. 16-22). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/25931

The most cited

84 citations (OpenCitations)

Ledent, B., & O'Callaghan, E. (2017). Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child: A Story of Loss and Connection. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 48 (3&4), 229-247. doi:10.1353/ari.2017.0032 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/204579

Theses and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

Ledent, B. (1997). Exile and Caribbeanness in Caryl Phillips's Fiction [Doctoral thesis, Université de Liège - ULg > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/16838

Publications

Books

Written alone

Ledent, B. (2002). Caryl Phillips. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press.

Written in collaboration

Maes-Jelinek, H., & Ledent, B. (2002). Theatre of the Arts: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Direction and/or edition of collective works (including proceedings of scientific meetings, special issues of journals)

Donnell, A., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (April 2020). Festschrift for Evelyn O'Callaghan. Journal of West Indian Literature, 28 (1), 100.
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Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2020). Illuminating Lives: The Biographical Impulse in Postcolonial Literatures. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55 (3), 333-479.
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Munos, D., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (2020). Minor Genres in Postcolonial Literatures. (1st edition). Routledge Taylor and Francis.

Ledent, B., & Munos, D. (Eds.). (2018). 'Minor' Genres in Poscolonial Literatures. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (1).
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Ledent, B., O'Callaghan, E., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2018). Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge. New York, United States - New York: Palgrave.

Collier, G., Davis, G., Delrez, M., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (2017). The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Rodopi.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2015). What is Africa to me now? Research in African Literatures, 46 (4), 1-150.
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Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2014). What is Africa to me now? Transition, 113, 1-101.
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Ledent, B., Fumagalli, M. C., & Del Valle Alcalá, R. (Eds.). (2013). The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities. Charlottesville, United States - Virginia: University of Virginia Press.

Collier, G., Delrez, M., Fuchs, A., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (2012). Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1: Africa in the World. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789401207843

Ledent, B., & Cuder-Domínguez, P. (Eds.). (2012). New Perspectives on the Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Practices, Dialogues. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Collier, G., Delrez, M., Fuchs, A., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (2012). Engaging with Literature of Commitment (vol. 2): The Worldly Scholar. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2012). Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Gyssels, K., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (2010). Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà / African Presence in Europe and Beyond. Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

Gyssels, K., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (2008). The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary / L'Ecrivain caribéen, guerrier de l'imaginaire. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B. (Ed.). (2007). Familial and Other Conversations: Special Issue on Caryl Phillips. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 7 (1), 123.

Davis, G. V., Marsden, P. H., Ledent, B., & Delrez, M. (Eds.). (2005). Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World, Volume 2. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B. (Ed.). (2004). Bridges across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature. Liège, Belgium: L3 (Liège Language and Literature).

Davis, G. V., Marsden, P. H., Ledent, B., & Delrez, M. (Eds.). (2004). Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World, Volume 1. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Burnett, P., Aguilar-Amat, A., Botsho, J. B., Chiavetta, E., Ledent, B., Martino, M. C., Muñoz Valdivieso, S., Pagnoulle, C., Tanzer, H., & Thurmair, M. (Eds.). (2003). The Emlit Project: European Minority Literatures in Translation. Uxbridge, United Kingdom: Brunel University Press.

Delrez, M., & Ledent, B. (Eds.). (1997). The Contact & the Culmination : Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek. Liège, Belgium: Liège Language and Literature (L3).

Critical editions

Caryl, P., & Ledent, B. (Crit. Ed.). (2023). Caryl Phillips, Radio Plays. London, United Kingdom: Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury.
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Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

Ledent, B. (2022). Unhousing the Archives Around the Zong, Again: Winsome Pinnock's Rockets and Blue Lights and Lawrence Scott's Dangerous Freedom. CR: the New Centennial Review, 22 (3), 141-158. doi:10.14321/crnewcentrevi.22.3.0141
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Ledent, B. (April 2021). An Archival Exploration of Radio Dramatic Hinterlands: Caryl Phillips’s Hotel Cristobel. Journal of West Indian Literature, 29 (1), 95-107.
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Ledent, B. (April 2020). Breaking Historical and Critical Silences. Journal of West Indian Literature, 28 (1), 93-96.
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Tunca, D., & Ledent, B. (2020). Towards a Definition of Postcolonial Biographical Fiction. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55 (3), 335-346. doi:10.1177/0021989419881234
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Ledent, B. (2019). "There is always the other side, always": Britain, the Caribbean and the Ghost of Jean Rhys in Caryl Phillips's Writing. Wasafiri, 34 (1), 61-66. doi:10.1080/02690055.2019.1541207
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Munos, D., & Ledent, B. (2018). “Minor” genres in postcolonial literatures: New webs of meaning. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (1), 1-5. doi:10.1080/17449855.2017.1419840
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Ledent, B. (2018). Radio drama and its avatars in the work of Caryl Phillips. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (1), 32-42. doi:10.1080/17449855.2017.1417761
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Ledent, B. (2017). Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River and the Chorus of Archival Memory. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 40 (1), 11-20.
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Ledent, B., & O'Callaghan, E. (2017). Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child: A Story of Loss and Connection. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 48 (3&4), 229-247. doi:10.1353/ari.2017.0032
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Ledent, B. (2017). Introduction: Thinking Caryl Phillips out of the box. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 48 (3&4), 1-11. doi:10.1353/ari.2017.0034
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Ledent, B. (2015). Reconfiguring the African Diaspora in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Research in African Literatures, 46 (4), 107-118. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.46.4.107
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Tunca, D., & Ledent, B. (2015). The Power of a Singular Story: Narrating Africa and Its Diasporas. Research in African Literatures, 46 (4), 1-9. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.46.4.1
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Ledent, B. (2015). Caryl Phillips’s drama: Liminal fiction under construction? Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51 (1), 84-94. doi:10.1080/17449855.2014.982924
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Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2014). What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas. Transition, 113, 1-10.
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Ledent, B. (2009). African American and Caribbean Literatures in Belgium: So Close, Yet So Far Apart. Transatlantica: Revue d'Études Américaines, 1, 1-8.
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Ledent, B. (2008). A Choice of Slaveries: Slavery and Power Dynamics in Karen King-Aribisala's The Hangman's Game (2007). New Mango Season, 2 (1), 59-70.
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Ledent, B. (2007). Caryl Phillips and the Caribbean as Multicultural Paradigm. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 7 (1), 74-84.
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Ledent, B. (2007). Family and Identity in Caryl Phillips's Fiction, in Particular A Distant Shore. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 29 (2), 67-73.
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Ledent, B. (2006). L'Afrique dans le roman de la diaspora anglophone. Critique: Revue Générale des Publications Françaises et Etrangères, 711-712, 739-750.
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Ledent, B. (2004). "Of, and not of, this Place": Attachment and Detachment in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore. Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 26 (1), 152-160.
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Ledent, B. (2003). Creolization in Robert Antoni's Blessed Is the Fruit: A Linguistic Analysis. Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 27-28, 433-441.
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Ledent, B. (2003). A New Wor(l)d Order: Language in the Fiction of the New Caribbean Diaspora. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 16, 191-200.
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Ledent, B. (2001). The 'Aesthetics of Personalism' in Caryl Phillips's Writing: Complexity as a New Brand of Humanism. World Literature Written in English, 39 (1), 75-85. doi:10.1080/17449850108589346
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Ledent, B. (January 2001). A Fictional and Cultural Labyrinth: Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 32 (1), 185-195.
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Ledent, B. (2000). Ambiguous Visions of Home: The Paradoxes of Diasporic Belonging in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound. EnterText: an Interactive Interdisciplinary e-Journal for Cultural and Historical Studies and Creative Work, 1 (1), 198-211.
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Ledent, B. (2000). Crossing a "Human River of Shattered Lives": Caryl Phillips's Diasporic Fiction/Visions. Literary Criterion, 35 (1-2), 157-169.
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Ledent, B. (1999). From a New-World Poetics to a New-World Vision: African America in the Works of Edouard Glissant and Caryl Phillips. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 21 (2), 29-36.
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Ledent, B. (1995). 'Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories': Cross-Culturality in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 30 (1), 55-62. doi:10.1177/002198949503000106
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Ledent, B. (1992). Voyages into Otherness: Cambridge and Lucy. Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 14 (2), 53-63.
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Ledent, B. (1990). L'Afrique du Sud hier et aujourd'hui: le contexte socioculturel. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, SP2, 5-12.
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Articles in journals without peer reviewing

Ledent, B. (1996). "Aquí, allá y en todas partes": La (con)version de la Identidad Caribeña por Michelle Cliff (Ortega, M. T., Trans.). Anales del Caribe, 16-18, 297-306.

Articles in proceedings

Ledent, B. (2007). Caribbean Literature: Looking Backward and Forward. Vetas Digital, 5 (78-79).

Ledent, B. (2007). Pasado, presente y futuro de las literaturas caribeñas. Vetas Digital, 5 (78-79).

Book chapters

Ledent, B. (2020). Looking Beyond, Shifting the Gaze: Writers in Motion. In S. Nasta & M. Stein (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (pp. 296-309). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108164146.020
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Ledent, B. (2019). Exotic madness in Caribbean literature: From marginalization to empowerment and indigenization. In M. Bharat & M. Grover (Eds.), Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature (pp. 309-322). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/fillm.12.21led
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Ledent, B., O'Callaghan, E., & Tunca, D. (2018). "Madness is rampant on this island": Writing Altered States in Anglophone Caribbean Literature. In B. Ledent, E. O'Callaghan, ... D. Tunca (Eds.), Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge (pp. 1-17). New York, United States - New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98180-2_1
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Ledent, B. (2017). Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness. In G. Collier, G. Davis, M. Delrez, ... B. Ledent (Eds.), The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek (pp. 201-218). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Rodopi.
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Ledent, B. (2016). "De l'autre côté de la littérature": Dislocations génériques et autres dans Hotel Impala de Baloji. In S. Demart & G. Abrassart (Eds.), Créer en postcolonie: 2010-2015 Voix et Dissidences belgo-congolaises (pp. 233-241). Bruxelles, Belgium: BOZAR.

Ledent, B. (2016). The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004). In J. Wilson & C. Ringrose (Eds.), New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing. Critical and Creative Contours (pp. 79-93). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
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Ledent, B. (2016). 'Other' Voices and the British Literary Canon. In D. Osborne (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Writing, 1945-2010 (pp. 241-255). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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Ledent, B. (2015). Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillips's Fiction. In Horlacher, Stefan (Ed.), Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice (pp. 251-269). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789004299009_013
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Ledent, B. (2014). The Dialogic Potential of “Literary Autism”: Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground (1989) and Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes (2009). In Sell, Roger D. (Ed.), Literature as Dialogue: Invitations Offered and Negotiated (pp. 99-114). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/ds.22.05led
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Ledent, B. (2014). Mind the Gaps: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow (2009) and the Generational Approach to the Black Diaspora. In J. Misrahi-Barak & C. Raynaud (Eds.), Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, 'Race', Volume 1 'Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations' (Series PoCoPages, pp. 161-175). Montpellier, France: Pulm.
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Fumagalli, M. C., Ledent, B., & del Valle Alcala, R. (2013). Introduction. In B. Ledent, R. del Valle Alcala, ... M. C. Fumagalli (Eds.), The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities (pp. 1-21). Charlottesville, United States: University of Virginia Press.
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Ledent, B., & Cuder-Domínguez, P. (2012). Introduction. In B. Ledent & P. Cuder-Domínguez (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Practices, Dialogues (pp. 9-20). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2012). Introduction. In B. Ledent & D. Tunca (Eds.), Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life (pp. 11-21). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B. (2012). 'Look liberty in the face': Determinism and Free Will in Caryl Phillips's Foreigners: Three English Lives (2007). In B. Ledent & D. Tunca (Eds.), Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life (pp. 75-85). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Collier, G., Delrez, M., Fuchs, A., & Ledent, B. (2012). A Memory Trip: Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical. In G. Collier, M. Delrez, A. Fuchs, ... B. Ledent (Eds.), Engaging with Literature of Commitment (vols. 1 & 2). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789401207843_001

Ledent, B. (2012). A Play of Significance: Roy Williams's Days of Significance and the Question of Labels. In G. Collier, M. Delrez, A. Fuchs, ... B. Ledent (Eds.), Engaging with Literature of Commitment (vol. 2): The Worldly Scholar (pp. 295-307). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B. (2011). Caryl Phillips: The Dignity of the Examined Life. In M. A. Bucknor & A. Donnell (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (pp. 72-77). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203830352-17

Ledent, B. (2010). West Indian Fiction. In J. C. Ball & B. W. Shaffer (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, Vol. 3: World Fiction. Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gyssels, K., & Ledent, B. (2010). Introduction (English version). In K. Gyssels & B. Ledent (Eds.), Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà / African Presence in Europe and Beyond (pp. 23-30). Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

Gyssels, K., & Ledent, B. (2010). Introduction (version française). In K. Gyssels & B. Ledent (Eds.), Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà / African Presence in Europe and Beyond (pp. 13-21). Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

Ledent, B., & Phillips, C. (2009). Only Connect: An Interview with Caryl Phillips on Foreigners. In R. T. Schatteman (Ed.), Conversations with Caryl Phillips (pp. 184-191). Jackson, United States - Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.

Ledent, B. (2009). Black British Literature. In D. Birch (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, seventh edition (pp. 16-22). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Ledent, B. (2008). Waging the War from the Outside: The Writers of the West Indian Diaspora and their Role in the Future of the Caribbean. In K. Gyssels & B. Ledent (Eds.), The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary / L'écrivain caribéen, guerrier de l'imaginaire (pp. 453-465). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B. (2006). Caryl Phillips's Drama: A Blueprint for a New Britishness? In G. V. Davis & A. Fuchs (Eds.), Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (pp. 189-201). Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang.
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Ledent, B. (2005). Slavery Revisited through Vocal Kaleidoscopes: Polyphony in Novels by Fred D'Aguiar and Caryl Phillips. In Misrahi-Barak (Ed.), Revisiting Slave Narratives / Le avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves (pp. 281-293). Montpellier, France: University de Montpellier III.
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Ledent, B. (2004). Caryl Phillips (1958-) (Louwerse, H., Trans.). In E. d'Hoker & O. de Graef (Eds.), Engelstalige literatuur na 1945 : deel 1 : proza, de Britse eilanden (pp. 179-193). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.
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Ledent, B. (2004). The Same, Yet Different: Caryl Phillips's Screen Adaptation of V.S. Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur. In J. Misrahi-Barak (Ed.), V.S. Naipaul: A World in Tension / Une oeuvre sous tension (pp. 155-169). Montpellier, France: Université de Montpellier III.
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Ledent, B. (2002). 'One is exiled when one refuses to obey the commandments of Conquest Mission': Religion as Metaphor in Caryl Phillips's Philosophy. In G. Stilz (Ed.), Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory (pp. 121-130). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Maes-Jelinek, H., & Ledent, B. (2001). The Novel since 1970. In A. J. Arnold (Ed.), A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Volume 2: English- and Dutch-Speaking Regions (pp. 149-198). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins. doi:10.1075/chlel.xv.17mae
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Ledent, B. (2000). "Here, There, and Everywhere": Michelle Cliff's (Con)version of Caribbean Identity. In M. Ghosh-Schellhorn (Ed.), Writing Women Across Borders and Categories (pp. 76-90). Münster, Germany: LIT.

Ledent, B. (2000). Du cauchemar à l'utopie réalisable : Londres dans les nouvelles et romans de la diaspora antillaise anglophone. In C. Duboin & E. Tabuteau (Eds.), La ville plurielle dans la fiction antillaise anglophone : images de l'interculturel (pp. 207-221). Toulouse, France: Presses universitaires du Mirail.
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Ledent, B. (1997). Remembering Slavery: History as Roots in the Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Fred D'Aguiar. In M. Delrez (Ed.), B. Ledent (Ed.), ... J. Dor (Other coll.), The Contact & the Culmination: Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek (pp. 271-280). Liège, Belgium: Liège Language and Literature (L3).

Ledent, B. (1996). Is Counter-Discursive Criticism Obsolescent? Intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground. In H. Maes-Jelinek, G. Collier, ... G. V. Davis (Eds.), A Talent(ed) Digger: Creations, Cameos, and Essays in Honour of Anna Rutherford (pp. 301-308). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Ledent, B. (1993). Caryl Phillips. In Post-War Literatures in English, vol. 19 (pp. 12). Groningen, Netherlands: Wolters-Noordhoff.

Ledent, B. (1993). New World Nomadism: Exile and the Caribbean 'Architecture of Cultures'. In J. Callens (Ed.), Re-Discoveries of America: The Meeting of Cultures (pp. 129-153). Brussels, Belgium: VUB Press.
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Ledent, B. (1990). Between Conflicting Worlds: Female Exiles in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark and Joan Riley's The Unbelonging. In G. V. Davis & H. Maes-Jelinek (Eds.), Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English (pp. 499-510). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.
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Contributions to encyclopedias and dictionaries

Ledent, B. (2013). Caryl Phillips. In Encyclopedia of Afroeuropean Studies. Afroeurope@s.

Ledent, B. (2008). Caryl Phillips (né en 1958). In J. Pouvelle & J.-P. Demarche (Eds.), Guide des littératures d'Irlande et du Commonwealth des origines à nos jours (pp. 259-262). Paris, France: Ellipses.

Ledent, B. (2006). Phillips, Caryl. In C. Palmer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas (pp. 1773-1774). Detroit, United States - Illinois: Macmillan.

Ledent, B. (2005). Caryl Phillips: A Master of Ambiguity. In B. Ledent (Ed.), The Caryl Phillips Bibliography.

Ledent, B. (2001). Caryl Phillips (1958- ). In J. C. Hawley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Westport, United States - Connecticut: Greenwood.

Ledent, B. (2001). Michelle Cliff (1946- ). In J. C. Hawley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (pp. 101-102). Westport, United States - Connecticut: Greenwood.

Prefaces, postfaces, glossaries

Ledent, B. (2023). 'Distant Noises of Other Voices: a Collection of Caryl Phillips's Radio Plays'. In B. Ledent, Caryl Phillips, Radio Plays. London, United Kingdom: Methuen Drama.
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Delrez, M., & Ledent, B. (1997). Introduction. In M. Delrez & B. Ledent (Eds.), The Contact and the Culmination: Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek (pp. 1-3). Liège, Belgium: L3.

Book reviews

Ledent, B. (in press). Review of Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women’s Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation, edited by Sheldon George and Jean Wyatt. Contemporary Women's Writing. doi:10.1093/cww/vpaf016
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Ledent, B. (November 2025). Review of Hanif Kureishi, Writing the Self: A Biography, by Ruvani Ranasinha. Life Writing, 22 (4), 955-958. doi:10.1080/14484528.2025.2503596
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Ledent, B. (2021). Review of Tracing Jaja, by Anthony Kellman. Journal of West Indian Literature, 29 (2), 141-143.
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Ledent, B. (2021). Review of Diaspora and returns, edited by Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57 (4), 580-581.
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Ledent, B. (2018). Alecia McKenzie, Sweetheart. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 18 (1), 128-129.

Ledent, B. (2017). Review of Traversée d'une oeuvre: Crossing the River de Caryl Phillips. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 40 (1), 159-160.
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Ledent, B. (2016). Review of Abigail Ward, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, and Fred D’Aguiar: Representations of Slavery. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 16 (2), 114-116.
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Ledent, B. (2016). Review of Véronique Maisier’s Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 90 (3&4), 366-367.
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Ledent, B. (2014). Review of Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 88 (1-2), 182-184. doi:10.1163/22134360-08801044
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Ledent, B. (2012). Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48 (4), 460-461.
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Ledent, B. (2011). Review of Velma Pollard's Considering Woman I & II. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 11 (1), 128-129.

Ledent, B. (2011). Review of Leah Reade Rosenberg's Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 85 (1-2), 154-156.

Ledent, B. (2008). Review of June E. Roberts's Reading Erna Brodber: Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 82 (3-4), 325-327.

Ledent, B. (2008). Review of David Ellis's Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 30 (2), 120-121.
Peer reviewed

Ledent, B. (2005). Review of Lawrence Phillips's The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London and John McLeod's Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis. European Journal of English Studies, 9 (3), 327-329. doi:10.1080/13825570500364037
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Ledent, B. (2003). Review of James Procter's Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 3 (2), 138-139.
Peer reviewed

Others

Ledent, B. (April 2024). “Broadcast now published”: An Interview with Caryl Phillips on the Publication of His Radio Plays. Journal of West Indian Literature, 32 (2), 64-77.
Editorial reviewed

Ledent, B., Tunca, D., & Phillips, C. (2020). "A Growth to Understanding": An Interview with Caryl Phillips about Biographical Fiction. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55 (3), 456-468. doi:10.1177/0021989418814586
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Ledent, B. (2009). A Treasured Family Album. Wasafiri, 59, 87.

Computer developments

Textual, factual or bibliographical databases

Ledent, B. (2003). Select Bibliography (Frontières: A Franco-British Writers' Festival about Identity).

Ledent, B. (1999). The Caryl Phillips Bibliography.

Published reports

Others

Cuder-Dominguez, P., & Ledent, B. (2007). European Perspectives on the Black Atlantic: Scientific Report. ESF. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/80515

Scientific popularization and diffusion for general audience

Articles in magazines or newspapers

Ledent, B. (2020). H is for The Hangman’s Game (2007) by Karen King-Aribisala. Caribbean Literary Heritage.

Tunca, D., Ledent, B., & Romdhani, R. (Other coll.). (2016). Dossier "Altered States" (nouvelle d'Alecia McKenzie, interview et poèmes de Kei Miller) (Ziane, C., Trans.). Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2013). Mixed Zone 3: "What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas". Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Ledent, B. (2010). Caraïbes / Royaume-Uni : Caryl Phillips. Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Others

Ledent, B. (2024). A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris.

Ledent, B., & Phillips, C. (2021). "Encountering Chapter One": Caryl Phillips in Conversation with Bénédicte Ledent. British Library.

Unpublished conferences and communications

Communications to congresses and symposiums

Ledent, B. (19 March 2025). The affective dimension of Caryl Phillips's biographical radio drama [Paper presentation]. Affect, Sound, and the Postcolonial: International Study Day.
Editorial reviewed

Ledent, B. (22 November 2024). Listening to Mad Voices from the Margins: Mental States in Caribbean Narratives of Migration [Paper presentation]. TAELS 9th INternational Conference - Voices from the margins, Hammamet, Tunisia.
Editorial reviewed

Ledent, B. (13 October 2023). Alecia McKenzie's Madwoman Version: Connecting the Global and the Local [Paper presentation]. 41st Annual West Indian Literature Conference.
Editorial reviewed

Ledent, B. (07 June 2023). Snow and the Black British Imaginary in Caryl Phillips's Writing [Paper presentation]. Imagining Environmental Justice in a Postcolonial World, Paris, France.
Peer reviewed

Ledent, B. (27 May 2022). Liberating Structures of Feeling in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and A Distant Shore [Paper presentation]. GAPS 2022, Contested Solidarities, Frankfurt, Germany.
Peer reviewed

Ledent, B. (17 October 2019). Exploring Radio Dramatic Hinterlands: a reading of Caryl Phillips’s Hotel Cristobel [Paper presentation]. 38th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, Georgetown, Guyana.

Ledent, B. (03 July 2019). Mental Health in the Literary Representations of the Windrush Generation [Paper presentation]. 43rd Annual Conference, Preston, United Kingdom.

Ledent, B. (22 June 2018). The Haunting Presence of Jean Rhys in Caryl Phillips's Fiction [Paper presentation]. Jean Rhys: Lignes de Transmission/Transmission Lines, Paris, France.

Ledent, B. (05 June 2018). The Caribbean and its Others in Jean Rhys and Caryl Phillips's Work [Paper presentation]. 43rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, La Havane, Cuba.

Ledent, B. (10 March 2018). "There is always the other side, always": Britain, the Caribbean and the Ghost of Jean Rhys in Caryl Phillips's Writing [Paper presentation]. Britain in the World: Day Symposium on the work of Caryl Phillips, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (January 2018). The Postcolonial Biographical Novel: Aesthetics and Ideologies [Paper presentation]. MLA Convention, New York, United States - New York.

Ledent, B. (May 2017). Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River and the Chorus of Archival Memory [Paper presentation]. Inhabiting the Voids of History: A Conference on Caryl Phillips, Caen, France.

Ledent, B. (March 2017). The Mad Exotic in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Marginalisation, Commodification and Empowerment [Paper presentation]. The Familiar and the Exotic in Language and Literature: The Politics of Perception and Representation, New Delhi, India.

Ledent, B. (September 2016). Presentation of contribution to the Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing [Paper presentation]. Symposium on The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing, Münster, Germany.

Ledent, B. (25 August 2016). Competition out of the Ordinary: Roundtable on 'Top Research' in English Studies [Paper presentation]. ESSE Conference 2016, Galway, Ireland.

Ledent, B. (07 September 2015). “ Extreme consciousness ” : Diaspora and mental states in the work of Jean Rhys and Caryl Phillips [Paper presentation]. Inaugural Convention of the Postcolonial Studies Association, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Ledent, B., & O'Callaghan, E. (May 2015). Haunted by Loss: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and The Lost Child [Paper presentation]. Lost Children: the Black Atlantic and Northern Britain, Preston, United Kingdom.

Ledent, B. (April 2014). 'Other' Voices and the English literary canon: the work of Jackie Kay and Caryl Phillips [Paper presentation]. Uncommon Wealth: Riches and Realities, Innsbruck, Austria.

Ledent, B. (August 2013). Thematic connections/Generic disconnections: Currents and cross-currents in Caryl Phillips's radio plays [Paper presentation]. 'The current unbroken/the circuits kept open': Connecting Cultures and the Commonwealth, St. Lucia.

Ledent, B. (October 2012). The Limits of Diasporic Solidarity in Dinaw Mengestu's Fiction [Paper presentation]. Diasporas and 'Race', Winston-Salem, NC, United States.

Ledent, B. (April 2012). The Dialogic Potential of Literary Autism: Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground (1989) and Marie NDiaye's Trois Femmes Puissantes [Paper presentation]. Dialogue analysis: Literature as Dialogue, Turku, Finland.

Ledent, B. (June 2011). Mind the Gaps: Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow and the Generational Approach to Migration, Diaspora and Globalization [Paper presentation]. Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, 'Race', Montpellier, France.

Ledent, B. (April 2011). Caryl Phillips's Drama: Fiction Under Construction [Paper presentation]. "Under Construction: Gateways and Walls", Istanbul, Turkey.

Conferences in universities or research centers

Ledent, B. (26 March 2024). The Lineage of Madness in Caribbean Literature [Paper presentation]. Lorand Chair Inaugural Lecture, Brussels, Belgium.

Ledent, B. (14 January 2019). Windrush: The Second Generation [Paper presentation]. Guest Lecture, Münster, Germany.

Ledent, B. (09 May 2017). 'A Rainbow Coalition of People': Race, Gender, and Other Categories in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River [Paper presentation]. Conférence dans le cadre de l'agrégation, Paris, France.

Ledent, B. (27 April 2017). 'A Rainbow Coalition of People': Race, Gender, and Other Categories in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River [Paper presentation]. Atelier "Genre, sexualités, décolonialité", Lyon, France.

Ledent, B. (October 2011). Masculinities in Caryl Phillips's Writing [Paper presentation]. American Writers' Festival, Singapore.

Posters

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2007). Littératures anglophones d'Afrique et des Caraïbes [Poster presentation]. Séance exceptionnelle de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-mer, Liège, Belgium.

Conferences given outside the academic context

Ledent, B. (2024). Honoring Caribbean Nobel Prize for Literature Winners: Walcott and Naipaul [Paper presentation]. Caribbean Days at Renaissance Brussels.

Ledent, B. (2019). "Not Just Voices: An Edited Collection of Caryl Phillips's Radio Plays" [Paper presentation]. Visiting Scholars Seminars, New Haven, United States.

Dony, C., Ledent, B., Munos, D., & Tunca, D. (2015). Identités et stéréotypes postcoloniaux [Paper presentation]. Cycle de conférences "Colonies: Héritages et Tabous", Liège, Belgium.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2006). La littérature post-coloniale : l'exemple du Nigeria [Paper presentation]. Conférences proposées par l'Espace Universitaire de Liège, module thématique sur "L'Afrique noire", Liège, Belgium.

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