We are pleased to announce that the 1978–2000 collection of the journal Etudes Créoles has been fully digitised and is now available on the Persée platform: https://www.persee.fr/collection/ecreo
Founded by the International Committee for Creole Studies (CIEC) in 1978, it was subsequently published by Harmattan between 2001 and 2010, also in print. In 2016, the journal underwent a revamp and has since been published entirely online as open access on the OpenEdition platform under the direction of Daniel Véronique (publishing director) and Sibylle Kriegel (editor-in-chief), with the support of the LPL.
Études Créoles is an online journal dedicated to the study of Creole languages – their emergence, development and history – as well as the societies in which they are spoken, their anthropological complexity, their literary culture and the challenges they face in education. It offers a broadly inclusive perspective, drawing on a wide range of viewpoints and disciplines. In its early years in the 1970s, in Aix-en-Provence, the journal focused primarily on linguistic analyses of French Creole languages in the Americas (the West Indies, French Guiana and Louisiana), the Indian Ocean (the Seychelles, Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues) and the Pacific (Tayo). It has helped to draw attention to remarkable original manuscripts such as La Passion en langage nègre, an unpublished Caribbean text from 1740–1750.