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Civilization in French & Francophone Literature & Film

Civilization in French & Francophone Literature & Film

Publié le par Julien Desrochers

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33rd Annual French Literature Conference 

March 31-April 2, 2005

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA) 

TOPIC: Civilization in French & Francophone Literature & Film

 

Possible approaches and/or topics might include:

- French & "Frenchness" in relation to the idea of civilization

- works promoting or censuring manners, conduct, protocol, etiquette

- issues of ethnic, national, linguistic, confessional identity in defining civilization and the civilized

- representations of the uncivilized, the foreign, the barbarian and the barbaric

- the Eliasian notion of a "civilizing process" in European culture & society

- resistence to civilization or civilizing process(es) as well as representations or characterizations, both positive and negative, of that resistence

- France's claim to a "mission civilisatrice" in all its historical definitions and varieties, etc.

Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted (hard copy, fax or e-mail attachment) to the conference organizer by November 3, 2004. Submissions should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook and should be held to a twenty-minute presentation time (no more than 10 double-spaced pages). Participants are encouraged to expand their presentations to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages for publication. Proceedings will be published as volume XXXIII of French Literature Series (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi).

The following link provides access to the program of the 2004 French Literature Conference on victims and victimization:

 

http://www.cla.sc.edu/DLLC/Fren/Events.Activites/flc/flc2004program.html

 

For more information, please contact:

Jeff Persels

Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Email: perselsj@sc.edu

Tel: (803) 777-6088 / -4881

Fax: (803) 777-0454