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This presentation will introduce one of the most recent turn in humanities, plant studies, and will contemplate its application to the field of Caribbean literature. After situating plant studies in recent literary theory, I will show how... more
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      World Literatures, Caribbean Literature, Pidgins & Creoles, Francophone Literature
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      Postcolonial Studies, Memory Studies, Francophone Literature, Maritime Literature
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      French Literature, Queer Theory, Feminism, Francophone Literature
This article argues for the necessity for world literature and postcolonial studies to examine both global hierarchies of literary legitimacy and those local practices which might challenge them, and give perspectives for other... more
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      Field Theory, Arabic Literature, Transnationalism, Francophone Literature
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For the past twenty years, Hélène Cixous has written extensively about art, and in complicity with contemporary artists. This article explores the relationship Cixous envisions between Adel Abdessemed’s art and her own imaginaire in her... more
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      French Literature, Aesthetics, Women's Studies, French Studies
This article analyses francophone speculative literature and cinema and the way it mobilizes counterfactuals to challenge historical teleologies and spatial orders by exploring possible worlds and contingencies. The analysis will focus on... more
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      Black/African Diaspora, Francophone Literature, Speculative Fiction, Counterfactuals
Désirée Schyns (Gent/Gand) résumé : Le présent article ofre une analyse de l'immigration clandestine représentée en fiction. Je commenterai quatre productions romanesques francophones qui évoquent la recherche d'une vie meilleure en... more
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      Migration, Francophone Literature
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      Critical Theory, Francophone Literature, Literature of the Francophone Caribbean, French and Francophone Studies
Iconoclastic French dissident, Jean Genet, notoriously channelled his hatred of the West as a way to discover the South. This article reads Genet’s admiration for the Palestinians as more than just a foil to the imperialist hegemony of a... more
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      French Literature, Francophone Literature, Jacques Derrida, Global South
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      Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Theories Of The Other/Postcolonialism
Posant la prémisse que traduire la littérature francophone québécoise sous nos latitudes est une tâche plus ardue que traduire la littérature française, nous explorerons les facteurs qui nous permettent d'étayer cette affirmation. Puisant... more
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      Translation Studies, Francophone Literature, Polysystem Studies
Comment les banlieues françaises sont-elles perçues hors de France, et dans quelle mesure la traduction littéraire façonne-t-elle leur image? À la suite des émeutes qui ont touché les cités à partir de novembre 2005, les œuvres... more
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      Sociolinguistics, Francophone Literature, Migrant and Diasporic Literature, French banlieues
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      Psychoanalysis, German Studies, Russian Studies, Comparative Literature
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      Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Colonialism, Francophone Literature
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      French Literature, Caribbean Literature, Francophone Literature, Littérature Francophone
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      Post-Colonialism, Francophone Literature, French colonialism, Contemporary French Theater
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      Dramaturgy, Contemporary Drama, Post-Colonialism, Francophone Literature
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      Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Postcolonial Literature, French and Francophone Studies
The presence of women in Leïla Slimani's work Abstract. This article aims to study the presence of women in Leïla Slimani's work, and to analyze the subjects that are related to women's identity in her work. In her two first novels and in... more
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      French Literature, Women's Studies, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Francophone Literature