{"title":"The Revival of Pamphletary Speech in the Twenty-First Century: The Rhetoric of Reversal","authors":"A. Damerdji","doi":"10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0150","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Through the study of three pamphleteer authors, Renaud Camus in France, Oriana Fallaci in Italy, and Fernando Vallejo in Colombia, this article explores the impact of recent legislations against hate speech on the literary field. It determines how literature, especially pamphlets, allows the reactionary ideological offensive to attempt to circumvent the law and studies the characterizing trait of this new twenty-first century pamphlet: the rhetoric of reversal.","PeriodicalId":55969,"journal":{"name":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":"150 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.1.0150","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:Through the study of three pamphleteer authors, Renaud Camus in France, Oriana Fallaci in Italy, and Fernando Vallejo in Colombia, this article explores the impact of recent legislations against hate speech on the literary field. It determines how literature, especially pamphlets, allows the reactionary ideological offensive to attempt to circumvent the law and studies the characterizing trait of this new twenty-first century pamphlet: the rhetoric of reversal.
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Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations and is edited in conjunction with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University. Each issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent comparatists.