The French-Congolese Senator, Jane Vialle, was appointed as a French delegate to the United Nations in 1949. During her term she served on the Ad-Hoc Anti-Slavery committee as an expert on African colonial conditions and the status of African Women. Vialle's work on the international stage was an extension of her efforts towards reforming the political, social and economic rights of women at national and local levels, within the French Fourth Republic and the Oubangui-Chari region she represented in French West Africa. Despite her efforts, Vialle was frustrated with the glacial pace of reform in all three arenas, declaring to her friend and colleague, the African American historian and Pan-Africanist Rayford W. Logan, that she often felt she was being used as ‘une nègre de drame’. Logan believed the expression was the French equivalent of the American phrase ‘a showpiece or token negro’. Through the framework of Jane Vialle’s political career, this articles explores how the notion of representation and what it meant to be ‘une nègre de drame’ or, indeed, to be an authentic representative of one’s nation, race or gender intersected with Vialle’s reformist efforts in Oubangui-Chari, the French Fourth Republic and on the international stage.

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“Une Nègre dedrame”：Jane Vialle 和殖民地改革中的政治代表，1945-1953

1949 年，法属刚果参议员简·维亚勒 (Jane Vialle) 被任命为法国驻联合国代表。在她任职期间，她在特设反奴隶制委员会任职，担任非洲殖民条件和非洲妇女地位方面的专家。Vialle 在国际舞台上的工作是她在法兰西第四共和国和她在法属西非代表的 Oubangui-Chari 地区在国家和地方层面改革妇女政治、社会和经济权利的努力的延伸。尽管她做出了努力，但 Vialle 对所有三个领域的改革步伐缓慢感到沮丧，她向她的朋友兼同事、非裔美国历史学家和泛非主义者 Rayford W. Logan 宣布，她经常觉得自己被当作“黑人”戏剧”。洛根认为这个表达方式在法语中等同于美国短语“a showpiece or token negro”。通过 Jane Vialle 的政治生涯框架，本文探讨了代表的概念以及它作为“une nègre de drame”或实际上是一个国家、种族或性别的真实代表的含义如何与 Vialle 的改革主义努力相交在欧班吉-查里、法兰西第四共和国和国际舞台上。