{"title":"Relire Désert (1980) de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio","authors":"Jean-Marc Moura","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384790","url":null,"abstract":"Désert (1980) is a landmark novel, first and foremost for personal reasons but also for its location at the junction of several French intellectual and aesthetic dynamics. The work marks a signific...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing in the Desert: Francis Ponge, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ecological Critique","authors":"Andrew P. Clark","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384814","url":null,"abstract":"Speaking to a small audience in Brussels in 1947, Francis Ponge described his poetic practice as “writing in the desert.” This paper examines Ponge’s notion of “writing in the desert” as it pertain...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Entroposcenic!”: Representing Nature in the Exhibition Desert Now and Some Works of Julian Charrière","authors":"Julie Gaillard","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384774","url":null,"abstract":"Franco-Swiss multimedia artist Julian Charrière finds in the world’s most uninhabitable places the material that shapes his artistic research. Through the discussion of two exhibitions, Desert Now ...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deserts of the Real: Paris and the Algerian Sahara as Postmodern Simulacra in Malek Haddad’s Je t’offrirai une gazelle","authors":"Valentin Duquet","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384783","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits an overlooked foundational text of early Algerian Francophone literature: Je t’offrirai une gazelle by Malek Haddad (1959). Reading Haddad’s novel through postcolonial and pos...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le Situationnisme : une pensée radicale du désert","authors":"Pierre Taminiaux","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384793","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I study Guy Debord’s critical discourse, particularly his landmark essay The Society of the Spectacle. He underlines here the symbolic desert produced by modern societies. I stress...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Poetics of the Desert: Nina Bouraoui’s Emancipatory Geography in Garçon Manqué","authors":"Molly O’Brien","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384788","url":null,"abstract":"Comprising roughly eighty percent of Algeria’s land mass, the Sahara is a significant part of its geography. As such, it often makes an appearance in Francophone Algerian literature in various ways...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La prairie comme « espace lisse » ? Faillir être flingué (2013) de Céline Minard","authors":"Jérémie Majorel","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384770","url":null,"abstract":"In her novel Faillir être flingué (2013), contemporary author Céline Minard revisits in her own way the Western, in a context where other writers in France and directors in the United States seize ...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roger Celestin, Alain-Philippe Durand, Denis M. Provencher
{"title":"Editors’ Introduction","authors":"Roger Celestin, Alain-Philippe Durand, Denis M. Provencher","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384767","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2024)","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edmond Jabès et l’éthique du désert","authors":"Eric Benoit","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384818","url":null,"abstract":"The desert is important in Jabès’ work, because it is for him the place for poetic speech to emerge: speech (midbar in Hebrew) comes from the desert (midbar also). This is to be understood at the b...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leur Algérie de Lina Soualem : Inscrire la mémoire de l’immigration algérienne dans « la France du vide »","authors":"Marie-Pierre Caquot Baggett","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2024.2384785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2384785","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on Leur Algérie, a 2020 documentary about remembering and representing the Algerian experience of immigrating to France’s “rural desert”—or to what geographer Roger Béteille call...","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}