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Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Damian Catani
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Emile Chabal, Michael C. Behrent
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Sarah Budasz
This article looks at the ways Ancient Greece was received by Charles Maurras and Maurice Barrès, two important French nationalist figures of the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that, whil...
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Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Frédérique Collette
If abortion remains a taboo experience anchored—in social, political and media discourse—in the notion of trauma, French literature of the last decades offers increasingly diversified narratives on...
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Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Guy Austin
This article presents the results of fieldwork carried out in France and Algeria in the spring of 2019 with survivors of the Algerian civil war (the so-called black decade of the 1990s). Interviews...
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WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-19 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Macs Smith
France’s policy of confinement in response to Covid-19 posed an existential threat to theatres. The Comédie-Française responded with a range of digital and cinematic programming. This article exami...
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Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Dominique Carlini Versini
Cet article proposera une lecture comparatiste du motif de l’avortement dans Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) de Céline Sciamma, L’Événement d’Audrey Diwan (2021) et Lingui, les liens sacré...
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Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diwan’s L’événement (2021) Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Kathryn Bryan
In L’Événement (2000), the author’s retelling of her experience of an illicit abortion in 1964, Annie Ernaux writes of a ‘chaîne invisible où se côtoient des artistes, des écrivaines, des héroïnes ...
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The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–1900 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Pamela Pilbeam
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–1937 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Diego Zancani
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Cornelia Ruhe
For the French Nouvelle Droite, literature plays an important role as a means to propagate questions of identity and the transmission of tradition. Literature is seen as a mirror not only of societ...
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Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Sonja Stojanovic
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Récital 1961 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Michael Kelly
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell
This article examines Leïla Sebbar’s engagement with colonial-era orientalist iconography in her 2007 text Métro: instantanés, a collection of literary snapshots of scenes glimpsed in the Parisian ...
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Une relation de vie ou de mort Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Frédéric Worms
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Inventing the natural contract Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Patrick Kevin Roney
The aim of this essay is to discuss one particular aspect concerning the methodological and linguistic dimensions of Michel Serres’ notion of the ‘natural contract’. The essay focuses on the way in...
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Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Njeri Githire
Throughout her illustrious creative and scholarly career, which spanned over five decades, French-Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé (1934-2024) earned a reputation as an iconoclast, a rebel disdainf...
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Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–1940 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Madeleine Chalmers
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–2022 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jeremy F. Lane
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Diane Minami Otosaka
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Sinan Richards
My article claims that the acceleration of the generalised planetary ecological crisis has been worsened by a form of collective reasoning called disavowal. To understand why and how this mode of r...
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L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Tony Chafer
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Feminism’s empire Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Pamela Pilbeam
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Pamela Pilbeam
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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Signé Michel Serres: the fine print of The Natural Contract Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Serge Trottein
Moving from embarkation to casting off to end finally in distress, does Michel Serres in The Natural Contract speak of the world or of himself? The work of a postmodern Rousseau, this book treats a...
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The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989) Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Marta-Laura Cenedese
In 1989, physician and author Martin Winckler published his first novel, La vacation, in which he introduced the fictional medical practitioner Bruno Sachs. In the novel, the author focuses on Brun...
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The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John W. P. Phillips
The article examines the sense, in the philosophy of Michel Serres, of a kind of parasitism that deviates subtly from existing understandings of the term. Parasitism is instantiated by a subtle dev...
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Michel Serres’s Le parasite: the noise of the world at work Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Bernard Howells
A universal irreversible movement, a single downward-pointing arrow gives rise to a second movement, parasitic upon the first but pointing in the opposite direction, towards an ever greater diversi...
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The weight of the world Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Gary E. Aylesworth
This essay focuses upon MIchel Serres’s etymological connection between peser (to weigh) and penser (to think, or judge). I take Serres to mean the weight of the world is a judging or rendering tha...
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Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Marion Demossier
This article examines innovative forms of museography and their relationship to national narratives involving history, memory and locality. It seeks to assess how definitions of culture have shifte...
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Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Briony Neilson
In June 2022 a new public statue was unveiled in New Caledonia. The new statue, erected in the Place des Cocotiers in central Nouméa, depicts the famous handshake between Kanak separatist leader Je...
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Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hannah Grayson, Nina Parish
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Fiona Barclay
This article examines the ‘guerre des mémoires’ that has defined the memorial landscape surrounding the Algerian War and seen it mired it in a competitive memory dynamic that Benjamin Stora terms ‘...
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Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Pascal Convert, Nigel Saint
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–2017 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Joanne Pettitt
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Lia Brozgal
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Serres’ textual parasitism and his search for a material language Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Gertrude Postl
This paper aims to explore Michel Serres’ approach to issues of text, writing and language. In a first step, his own textual parasitism—his use of other texts without adhering to the academic conve...
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Interventions 2020 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Fraser McQueen
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Pamela Pilbeam
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Pierre Azou
Présentés et se concevant eux-mêmes politiquement comme diamétralement opposés, Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour ont en commun d’afficher un amour hyperbolique pour la littérature, et qu’ils formule...
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Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Marion Hallet, Elizabeth Miller
This article examines the representation of abortion in French cinema during one of the most pivotal periods for women’s rights and lives—the ‘long’ 1960s (1959–1973), one caught between post-war c...
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The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited) Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Christina Howells
In this article I shall explore the development of Michel Serres’s understanding of the human parasite, starting from The Parasite (1980) and The Natural Contract (1990), through to Hominescence (2...
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Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Chris Watkin
This article uses Michel Serres’s notions of the parasite and the natural contract to develop a counter-narrative to the modern idea of the state of nature. Foundational to modern thought, the stat...
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Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Kathryn Robson
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Ry Montgomery
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Antonia Wimbush
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Oana Sabo
This article analyses the mass media reception of Annie Ernaux’s 2022 Nobel Prize, particularly the criticisms in the French press. After the award announcement, Ernaux was at once celebrated for h...
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Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 68 Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Michael Seidman
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Le Piège africain de Macron Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Tony Chafer
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Sinan Richards
1Solange Adelola Faladé (1925–2004) was a French-Beninois doctor, anthropologist and psychoanalyst. The first woman Franco-African psychoanalyst in France, she founded her own psychoanalytical soci...
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« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Antoine Coppola
Le film de Leos Carax « Annette » projeté au festival de Cannes en 2021 n’a laissé personne indifférent : quelque chose d’important se disait à propos du cinéma et, en particulier, du cinéma frança...
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Serres’s reading of Tartuffe: hypocrisy and comic underdetermination Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Robert Hughes
In The Parasite (1980), philosopher Michel Serres invites readers to reflect on hypocrisy in a non-moral sense. Ruminating upon the example of Molière’s Tartuffe, Serres takes up the scandalous imp...
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The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Rosalind Silvester
From 1987 to 1994, a period that overlapped with his move to France in 1989, Huang Yong Ping washed texts in washing machines as part of his ‘damp method’ series. His objective was to ‘cut off the ...
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‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Katie Pleming
Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives (1979) is a short film which interrogates the exclusion and marginalisation of immigrants in postcolonial French society by highlighting the hidden labour of ...
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Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Ari J. Blatt
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Peter Tarjanyi
Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
This article explores the links between creative imagination and extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This question has an undeniable memorial dimension, for extraction, as a c...
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Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Dónal Hassett
First as candidate and then as President, Emmanuel Macron has elevated colonial memory policy as a key site for the performance and enactment of the dual values of rupture and reconciliation that u...
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Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Gerard Keubeung
Le présent article voudrait mettre en lumière les manières dont les personnages immigrés de Ben Jelloun et Mouloud Feraoun sont en rupture totale avec les espaces où ils se meuvent, que ce soit en ...
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Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia Modern & Contemporary France (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Sophie Fuggle
After decades of collective forgetting, heritage initiatives have resulted in the restoration of sites linked to France’s former penal colonies in French Guiana and New Caledonia which operated in ...