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A double nightmare of racist violence in bande dessinée and film: Cauchemar Blanc (Moebius, 1974 and Kassovitz, 1991) 绘画和电影中种族主义暴力的双重噩梦：白考赫马》（莫比乌斯，1974 年；卡索维茨，1991 年）

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241286636

Elke Defever

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Le drame du migrant dans Cannibales de Mahi Binebine : anthropophagie, anthropémie et autophagie 马希-比内宾《食人鱼》中的移民戏剧：噬人、噬人血症和自噬作用

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241270440

Mohamed Semlali

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French universalist disparities: A racial capitalist reading of French universalism 法国普遍主义的差异：法国普遍主义的种族资本主义解读

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241270409

Daniel N. Maroun

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“Original sufferhead”: The boy-child and masculine sufferings in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé and Les Soleils des Indépendances "原始的苦难"：Ahmadou Kourouma 的《Allah n'est pas obligé》和《Les Soleils des Indépendances》中的男童和男性之苦

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241262682

Omotayo Ajileye Jemiluyi

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Creepypasta and “the Fabrègues Affair”: Imitation and aggression in a recent case of youth violence Creepypasta 和 "Fabrègues 事件"：最近一起青少年暴力事件中的模仿和攻击行为

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-21 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241264974

Ian Williams Curtis

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Cultural encounters between Kaehwagi Chosŏn and modern France represented in the works of Kim T’akhwan and Sin Kyŏngsuk Kim T'akhwan 和 Sin Kyŏngsuk 作品中体现的开化郡与现代法国之间的文化邂逅

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241258203

Chan-Kyu Lee, Yoon-Jung Cho

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Laughing about race in “colorblind” France: Racial stereotypes in French television comedy 在 "不分肤色 "的法国笑谈种族：法国电视喜剧中的种族定型观念

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241246957

Isaac Ekobo, George S. MacLeod

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Freak out! At the acousmonium: François Bayle and the dynamics of the subject 畸形！在acousmonium：弗朗索瓦-贝叶与主题的动力

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French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1177/09571558241243013

Sam Ridout

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The carceral in Tunisian popular culture 突尼斯流行文化中的胴体