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Précarité, Insécurité, Instabilité: Representations of Unstable French Identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries (ACLA 2018)

Précarité, Insécurité, Instabilité: Representations of Unstable French Identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries (ACLA 2018)

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Caroline Whiteman)

ACLA Conference 2018 Panel

"Précarité, Insécurité, Instabilité:

Representations of Unstable French Identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries"
 

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the ACLA panel we are proposing, which is entitled "Précarité, Insécurité, Instabilité: Representations of Unstable French Identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries."

The goal of this panel is to explore some of the ways in which 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature and film reflect the increasingly precarious nature of the traditional French values of liberté, égalité, and fraternité. We will show how this French devise is becoming progressively more unstable in contemporary French society and, by extension, how that instability is represented in textual and cinematic works. Spanning distances both temporal and geographical, we aim to trace the development of that disquiet from the second half of the 20th century to the present day, examining texts from France and the Francophone world. Ultimately, we seek to demonstrate how the interplay between different literary spaces and the dialogue they generate simultaneously contribute to and commentate the instability that characterizes the French and Francophone literature of the past fifty years. Finally, we aim to interrogate the locus of articulation between that literature and the larger cultural context of which it is a part.

  • Center and periphery

  • Marginality

  • Formal choices

  • Transgressions and subversions

  • Tradition and innovation

  • Stability and change

  • Intersectional identities

  • Postcolonial representations of race

  • Refining Self and Other

  • Liminal states

  • Permeable borders

  • Being and becoming

  • Representations of nationhood

  • Post-postcolonialism

  • Beyond -isms

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, September 21 at 9:00am EST. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Best regards,

Caroline Whiteman and Leah Holz

cwhiteman@missouriwestern.edu

leah.holz@colorado.edu