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Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Publié le par Julien Desrochers

Call for Papers
35th Annual French Literature Conference
March 22-24, 2007
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)

Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Violence (thematic, stylistic, or linguistic) has been a source of entertainment as well as a means of social critique in French and Francophone literature and film from the chansons de geste to the present. The organizers of the 35th annual French Literature Conference invite submissions treating the forms and uses of violence in French–language literature or film of any period.

Possible approaches to the topic might include:

War or the threat of war — Other forms of collective violence — Resistance to violence, or to occupiers and colonizers -- Moral dilemmas or philosophical views ("La Guerre de Troie aura bien lieu") — Violence and justice, cruelty, madness, catharsis, or redemption — Gender and violence — Violence and marginality —Darwinian self-preservation — The virtues or pleasures of pain —Such genres as the cape et épée, roman noir, or roman policier— The Romantic Agony, postmodern phase — Ritual or comic violence through the lens of anthropology, sociology, pathology, or humor studies (cf. slapstick) — Treatments of violence that point to cultural specificity– Aggression directed at the reader or viewer ("Offending the Audience") – Dada and surrealist poetry, film and theater – Linguistic or textual violence

Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French (either electronic format or paper), should reach the conference organizer by November 1, 2006. Submissions should conform to the guidelines of the MLA Handbook and should be held to a twenty-minute presentation time (no more than 10 double-spaced pages). Papers are selected for the conference based on a blind reading by members of the editorial board of the well-established journal, French Literature Series – FLS (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi). Conference participants are encouraged to expand their presentations to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages for publication in volume XXXV of FLS.

 

 

For more information, please contact:
Professor Nancy Lane
University of South Carolina
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Columbia, SC 29208
Fax: (803) 777-0454
Office phone: (803) 777-6867 or (803) 777-4881
Email: lane-nancy@sc.edu