{"title":"« Corps de gloire » et « corps sans organes » : Artaud médecin de lui-même","authors":"M. Philippe","doi":"10.1177/09571558211026871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211026871","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article propose une réévaluation critique de la notion de corps sans organes dans l’oeuvre d’Antonin Artaud à la lumière des cahiers d’Ivry publiés fin 2011 et dans lesquels Artaud mentionne un nouveau « corps de gloire ». L’auteur commence par préciser la relation entre « le corps sans organes » et la tradition catholique de façon à montrer comment Artaud détourne cette dernière de façon hérétique. Le corps sans organes d’Artaud est ensuite distingué de sa conceptualisation par Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari en prenant appui sur des commentaires de Paule Thévenin, qui a édité les Œuvres complètes d’Artaud, ainsi que sur des textes d’Artaud contemporains à l’émission radiophonique qui contredisent la lecture deleuzo-guattarienne. En effet, le corps sans organes d’Artaud est défini de façon explicite en réaction à la psychanalyse freudienne et sa définition hérétique en tant que « corps de gloire » est destinée à s’opposer dans un même geste à la religion ainsi qu’à la psychanalyse.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"375 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09571558211026871","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41425905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incendies, les sons du silence","authors":"Mary Ellen Aronoff, N. Ba","doi":"10.1177/09571558211021697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211021697","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Des pièces comme Incendies permettent de libérer des voix silencieuses afin qu’elles puissent raconter des histoires de peine et de souffrance, et le théâtre donne un espace sûr pour présenter ces histoires. L’analyse suivante explore le comportement énigmatique de la protagoniste Nawal et cherche à expliquer pourquoi elle a choisi de s’éloigner de son monde et de vivre en silence. Il y a deux côtés à Nawal. Dans son pays natal, elle est une combattante qui ne recule devant rien. Au Canada, toutefois, Nawal est le contraire. Elle apparaît comme timide et effacée. Le silence dans la pièce revêt de nombreuses formes qui méritent une attention particulière et une analyse poussée. En outre, on peut trouver dans ce silence des dichotomies qui cherchent la réconciliation. La lentille à travers laquelle l’analyse est présentée souligne l’importance que les récits de difficultés et de souffrance soient racontés par ceux qui ont un lien direct avec leur propre histoire.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"364 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09571558211021697","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voyageurs malgré eux: Silence, embodiment, and exposure in Minh Tran Huy and Doan Bui","authors":"Caroline D. Laurent","doi":"10.1177/09571558211025908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211025908","url":null,"abstract":"In recent Franco-Vietnamese literature written by descendants of immigrants, the liminality of exile is portrayed in all its complexity through migrant bodies – that of parents’ bodies – and through political and social bodies – linked to History and the Việt Kiều’s positionality in French society. The experience of external movement becomes an internal one, creating porosity between the outside and the body, self and others, places and times. This article argues that, in Minh Tran Huy’s Voyageur malgré lui and Doan Bui’s Le Silence de mon père, by representing their family’s migration, both authors present the silenced histories of the Vietnamese community in France. In order to do so, Tran Huy and Bui first focus on uncovering and writing the stories of their silent fathers: through their embodiment of exilic history, the fathers transmit the wound of their immigrant condition to their daughters. Consequently, daughters come to manifest similar bodily expressions of traumas they have not experienced and know little about. The fathers’ histories are eventually voiced and re-invested by the second generation. This shows how the unearthing of their fathers’ life stories is also about reappropriating a dual identity as well as making Asian diasporic perspectives and histories visible, notably to create new avenues of representation for French individuals of Asian descent.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"346 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09571558211025908","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44238176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Destabilising myths of origin: Collaborative storytelling and biopolitical communities in Wajdi Mouawad's Le Sang des promesses","authors":"Nicholas A Strole","doi":"10.1177/09571558211048404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211048404","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses how diverse communities are formed through storytelling and mythmaking in Wajdi Mouawad's theatrical tetralogy, Le Sang des promesses (1999–2009). Mythic origin stories, which Mouawad's migratory characters collect and share on their journeys from one community to the next, draw individuals from their pasts on stage to act out the events from each narrative. Mouawad thus reveals how the theatre can serve as an ideal venue for spectators from diverse backgrounds to gather and experience the various conditions many migrants face. Drawing on Roberto Esposito's biopolitical theory of communitas and Lévi-Strauss's structuralist analysis of myth, this article argues that collaborative storytelling and mythmaking allow Mouawad's migratory characters to cross various types of borders and form unexpected communities that defy barriers of time and space.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"135 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45935003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transit intestinal: Tactical mobility and the Parisian netherworld in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro","authors":"Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell","doi":"10.1177/09571558211041700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211041700","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on Michel de Certeau's notion of tactical resistance to examine the practices of reading and of using urban space in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. Departing from formalist approaches that frame Queneau's Paris as a ‘construction verbale,’ I offer a historically situated analysis of the novel's representation of post-war Paris, demonstrating that the theme of semiotic instability, frequently explored in studies of the novel, reflects not only the author's preoccupations with language but also the social and cultural upheavals of its historical moment. The article first examines the Parisian metro's status as a uniquely legible site in the chaotic urban landscape of Zazie dans le métro in relation to the conflicting images of the metro as alternately a hellscape and a refuge in the post-war period. The article then shifts the usual critical focus on the eponymous Zazie's anarchic adventures on the city's surface to explore the transgressive détournements of subterranean urban space performed by a range of characters seeking to resist the dominant social order. The article closes with a discussion of underground Paris as a zone of ambiguity that eschews simple truths and rigid categories of identity.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"59 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49172678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist psychogeography long after May 1968: Whatever Happened to My Revolution","authors":"M. Breen","doi":"10.1177/09571558211051283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211051283","url":null,"abstract":"Whatever Happened to My Revolution offers a French feminist perspective on the impact today of the uprising by the left in Paris in May 1968. The continuing appeal of the events of ‘68 are considered to be in decline, yet the film suggests that the energy of 50 years ago continues to mobilize cultural politics through cinematic appeals that amount to the radical recuperation of some of the ambitions of the day, a continuation of the past in the present. Whatever Happened to My Revolution is explored with reference to Guy Debord's concept of psychogeography, which suggested new phases of discovery in social life for remaking urban life, cross-referencing aspects of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical approach that appear in the film, especially the concept of desire, informing its feminist psychogeography. The challenges facing the current generation can be described as a desire by the French left, in this film defined and described by women, for the realization of May ‘68s cultural transformations in public and private culture.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"168 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46772539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seduction, Aggression, and Frenchness in LA VIE PARISIENNE (1914–1918)","authors":"Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo","doi":"10.1177/09571558211032362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211032362","url":null,"abstract":"The article retraces how the notion of cultural singularity in sexuality was constructed and weaponized in the most popular French illustrated periodical of the First World War. It argues that La Vie Parisienne’s sublimation of romantic love, sex, and Frenchness worked as a cultural tactic that, while helping the readership cope with a devastating historical disruption, undermined at the same time claims for social change. The close analysis of works by illustrator Chéri Hérouard uncovers how nationalism and anxieties of sexual dispossession contributed to integrate a fraught notion of women’s sexual consent to a broader claim of cultural superiority. This article provides a critical approach to popular and visual representations of heterosexual and non-conjugal norms of desire, seduction, and sexuality in wartime France. It also offers a historical example of how the racialization and nationalisation of gender relations, discussed as ‘Gallic singularity’ in recent scholarship, trivialises masculine aggression and produces the ambivalence long associated with the notion of women’s sexual consent in France.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"40 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09571558211032362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47131392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islamophobia, racialisation and the ‘Muslim problem’ in France","authors":"S. Dawes","doi":"10.1177/09571558211028202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211028202","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the special issue on ‘Islamophobia, Racialisation and the “Muslim Problem” in France’. Islamophobia is here understood as (anti-Muslim) racism, with structural and historical dimensions beyond those of individual acts of discrimination or prejudice, and whereby those perceived to be Muslim are systematically racialised as if they are ‘a race’ and as a ‘problem’ to be debated (primarily by the White non-Muslim majority). The issue brings together researchers from France and beyond, in French and in English, and from several disciplines, to demonstrate the diversity of international academic research on the topic as well as the relative consensus among specialist scholars on how to theorise and critique such phenomena.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"179 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41895909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anti-sociologisme, Zionism, and Islamophobia in Philippe Val’s Charlie Hebdo","authors":"Imen Neffati","doi":"10.1177/09571558211027041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211027041","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I examine Charlie Hebdo, under the editorship of Philippe Val from 1994 to 2005, and how it reported on themes related to Islam and Muslims, both in France and abroad, particularly in relation to the satanic breasts controversy and the Hebron massacre in 1994, the Kosovo war, 9/11, and the 2005 banlieues riots in France. I argue that despite the plurality of voices within the magazine, Val succeeded through his editorial line to establish and promote a link between antisemitism and Muslims and produce a narrative that harbours Islamophobia. By conflating Arabs and Muslims, pro-Palestinianism and postcolonialism, and by arguing that anti-Semitism is inherent in Islam, Val sowed the first seeds of Islamophobia in Charlie Hebdo’s editorial line as early as 1994. This reached its culmination first in 9/11 then in the Mohamed caricatures, and has consistently and irreversibly continued to shape the magazine’s ethos.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"280 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49522977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islamophobia, race and the attack on antiracism: Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin in conversation","authors":"Gavan Titley, A. Lentin","doi":"10.1177/09571558211027062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211027062","url":null,"abstract":"In our work together, going back to the mid-2000s, we have always felt that it was impossible to engage fully with the ever circulating, scavenger nature of race and racism from the narrow Anglo-American vantage point that often predominates and orients public and scholarly discussions. Especially, when attempting to think with and against race in Europe and to excavate the attempts to ‘bury it alive’ we always attempted to seek out the parallels and overlaps between contexts that attempted to portray themselves as distinct, mirroring indeed the sedimentation created by a politics of race. Reading race in France, and in particular over the last two decades Islamophobia, has been central to that work in common. In this conversation, we reflect on debates on race, coloniality and the spectre of ‘Islamo-leftism’ in the France of 2020–2021, against the backdrop of both a global pandemic and a worldwide movement against racial violence. Through this dialogue, we think about what has changed, and what remains the same, ending with a recognition of the international importance of decolonial and political antiracist politics in France and the energy they inspire in the face of the most reactionary of forces.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"296 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47659296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}