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H. Vassalo & P. Cooke (dir.), Alienation and Alterity. Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Francophone Contexts

H. Vassalo & P. Cooke (dir.), Alienation and Alterity. Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Francophone Contexts

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

VASSALLO, Helen et Paul COOKE (dir.), Alienation and Alterity. Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Francophone Context, Oxford / Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Wien, Peter Lan, 2009, 337 p.

ISBN 978-3-03911-547-1 

RÉSUMÉ

Discussions of French 'identity' have frequently emphasised theimportance of a highly centralised Republican model inherited from theRevolution. In reality, however, France also has a rich heritage ofdiversity that has often found expression in contingent sub-culturesmarked by marginalisation and otherness - whether social, religious,gendered, sexual, linguistic or ethnic. This range of sub-cultures andvariety of ways of thinking the 'other' underlines the fact that'norms' can only exist by the concomitant existence of difference(s).The essays in this collection, which derive from the conference'Alienation and Alterity: Otherness in Modern and ContemporaryFrancophone Contexts', held at the University of Exeter in September2007, explore various aspects of this diversity in French andFrancophone literature, culture, and cinema from the nineteenth to thetwenty-first century. The contributions demonstrate that whilealienation (from a cultural 'norm' and also from oneself) can certainlybe painful and problematic, it is also a privileged position whichallows the 'étranger' to consider the world and his/her relationship toit in an 'other' way.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Helen Vassallo/Paul Cooke: Introduction - Owen Heathcote: Queer Nation,Queer Alienation? Avatars of Monsieur Vénus - Oliver Davis: GuillaumeDustan's 'autopornobiographie': Is There Room for Trash in the QueerSubcultural Archive? - Brigitte Rollet : Altérité textuelle et sexuelle? Le cinéma populaire français contemporain et l'homosexualité - AndrewAsibong: Viral Women: Singular, Collective and Progressive Infection inHiroshima mon amour, Les Yeux sans visage and Trouble Every Day -Martin Hurcombe: Back to Spain: Commitment in Crisis in Four FrenchNovels of the Spanish Civil War (1958-1962) - Eva Pich-Ponce :Aliénation ou la recherche de l'altérité dans Un Joualonais sa Joualonie deMarie-Claire Blais - John Kristian Sanaker/David-Alexandre Wagner :Hétérolinguisme filmique : l'exemple du cinéma de banlieue - NicoleFayard: 'Faire parler ces femmes [...] les libérer. Parce que dans lesquartiers, on ne dit rien': Alienation, Sexual Violence and TextualSurvival in the Work of Jamila Aït-Abbas, Samira Bellil, Leila andLoubna Méliane - Fiona Handyside: The Margins Don't Have to BeMarginal: The banlieue in the Films of Eric Rohmer - BenjaminAndréo : 'Exercices d'exorcisme' : les sorts et glossolalies artaldiensou la pragmatique de l'altérité - Louise Hardwick: 'Est-ce cela être «aliéné» ?' Alienation in Maryse Condé's Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer -Kate Roy: A Multiple Otherness: Beginning with Difference in theWriting of Leïla Sebbar - Jeanne Hyvrard : Penser l'aliénation etl'altérité.

BIOGRAPHIE

Helen Vassallo has a B.A. in French and Hispanic Studies from theUniversity of Liverpool. She went on to obtain an M.A. in LiteraryTranslation and a Ph.D. in Contemporary French Literature from theUniversity of Exeter. She is currently Lecturer in French at theUniversity of Exeter.
Paul Cooke has a B.A. from the University ofOxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He has heldlecturing posts at LSU College (Southampton) and De Montfort University(Leicester). He is currently Associate Professor in French at theUniversity of Exeter.