{"title":"Freak out! At the acousmonium: François Bayle and the dynamics of the subject","authors":"Sam Ridout","doi":"10.1177/09571558241243013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241243013","url":null,"abstract":"French electroacoustic music in the post-war decades has typically been associated with a high modernism that spurned popular or mass culture. This article situates electroacoustic music in the late 1960s and 1970s in relation to the transformation of the cultural field in this period, which unsettled clear divisions between high and low cultures. Attending in particular to the question of subjectivity as it appears in the theoretical writings of the composers Pierre Schaeffer and François Bayle, the article aligns Bayle's thinking with that of contemporary writers including Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, who launched a critique of the Enlightenment subject. This theoretical nexus suggests that Bayle's L’Expérience acoustique (1969–1972) posits a form of subjectivity closer to the psychedelic counterculture than to the sober listening of Schaeffer's writings. In unsettling the Schaefferian listening subject, the piece opens itself to a heterogeneous listening, the social consequences of which remain significant today.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140534141","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":"The carceral in Tunisian popular culture","authors":"Mohamed Chamekh","doi":"10.1177/09571558241240716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241240716","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes use of James Scott's theory of ‘hidden transcripts’ to study cultural works and relevant writings that document the history of the carceral in Tunisia. It contends that prisoners found in songs and writings hidden transcripts to resist authoritarianism, to denounce the miscarriage of justice and to communicate with the outside world. Prisoner cultural works and writings show that the prisoner agency changed the carceral site into a secure social space to resist oppression and authoritarianism. Using Gaston Bachelard's conception of the house, we found that the prison cell had the value of a ‘house’ for memories, thoughts, imaginations and dreams. This paper concludes that prisoner songs and writings served as a counternarrative that helped in developing a different version of Tunisian modern history.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"260 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140533250","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":"Survival and speechlessness in Malabou: Oedipus or Eurydice?*","authors":"Eva-Maria Aigner","doi":"10.1177/09571558241236914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241236914","url":null,"abstract":"How to speak of wounding, of survival? Regarding a new “recently adopted apocalyptic tone in philosophy” and the multiple crises of the twenty-first century this question, which has shaped Occidental philosophy after Auschwitz, seems to have gained increased urgency. In her book “The New Wounded” (orig. 2007) Malabou addresses this question of the (im)possibility of the symbolization of traumatic injuries. The paper develops Malabou's understanding of survival as dis-continuity and the problem of the speechlessness of the survivor implicit to it: What can, in fact, be said, when the “in-dividual” is suspended from the chronological order of time and its mode of survival consists precisely in this suspension? By also considering the work of Dufourmantelle and Derrida on this matter, I intend to open up a yet underexplored perspective on deconstruction's contribution to a thinking of survival.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140162171","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":"Annie Ernaux: politics lived and written","authors":"Ève Morisi","doi":"10.1177/09571558241231735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241231735","url":null,"abstract":"‘Annie Ernaux: Politics lived and written’ starts by outlining the aim and key terms of this special issue of French Cultural Studies dedicated to ‘Annie Ernaux: Writing, Politics’. It then provides an overview of her life, highlighting some of the ways in which the writer, who was born in 1940, experienced or witnessed first-hand the historical events, legal pressures, and socio-political realities of her era. There follows a reminder of the two prevalent concerns that have structured her work, namely ‘le mépris social’ and ‘la domination masculine’, both of which pertain to ‘ le politique’. ‘ La politique’ being also subject to examination in the articles in this issue, the politics of Ernaux – the citizen and the writer – is subsequently surveyed and consideration is given to the author's will to distinguish it from the ‘political action of literary writing’. Finally, this introduction examines the processes of representation and self-positioning that shape the political in Ernaux's prose. A concluding section provides an overview of the nine contributions brought together here.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140064351","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":"Ernaux vue par les écrivain.e.s transfuges et/ou féministes : littérature et insoumission","authors":"Aurélie Adler","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214821","url":null,"abstract":"RésuméLauréate du Prix Nobel, Annie Ernaux est une écrivaine consacrée mais elle est en outre considérée comme une représentante des dominé.e.s, avec toutes les ambiguïtés que ce terme de « représentante » recouvre. Si la réception de l’œuvre demeure clivée en France, force est de constater que le programme qui a en partie guidé l’œuvre d’Ernaux – « venger ma race et venger mon sexe » – participe d’une conception politique de la littérature qui peut prendre une valeur prescriptive ou incitative pour des écrivain.e.s transfuges de classe et/ou féministes. Par leurs commentaires critiques, ces écrivain.e.s infléchissent la lecture de l’œuvre – par l’autrice mais aussi par les lecteurs ordinaires – qui confère une utilité sociale à la « transgression » esthétique prêtée à la prose d’Ernaux.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139994769","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":"Les récits de filiation d’Annie Ernaux dans la perspective du care","authors":"Raissa Furlanetto Cardoso","doi":"10.1177/09571558231216930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231216930","url":null,"abstract":"RésuméDepuis la deuxième décennie du XXI<jats:sup>e</jats:sup> siècle, les études littéraires françaises et québécoises ont identifié une « littérature (du) care », un ensemble d’œuvres dont certains traits rejoignent la perspective féministe du care. En partant d’une suggestion de Larroux (2020), cet article s’intéressera aux deux récits de filiation « laborieuse » d’Annie Ernaux, La Place (1983) et Une femme (1988), ainsi qu’à « Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit » (1997), dans le but de réfléchir à leurs affinités avec cette perspective. On s’intéressera, d’abord, à l’attention qu’Ernaux porte à la vie ordinaire. On s’interrogera, ensuite, sur les rapports entre les actes de soigner et d’écrire, en avançant l’hypothèse que les récits d’Ernaux peuvent, d’une certaine manière, « soigner » les parents disparus, mais aussi la classe laborieuse en général. Enfin, on réfléchira à la poétique définie dans La Place : elle témoigne d’une attitude de l’autrice relevant du care.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938996","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":"Annie Ernaux: future prospects and the politics of time","authors":"Ann Jefferson","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214674","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the elaboration of time as part of the formal construction that relates writing and politics in Ernaux's work. Beginning with her claim that ‘Écrire, c’est créer du temps’, particular attention is paid to the role of the future in Ernaux's ‘lived time’, especially the future as anticipated in the past. Her accounts of the past, in both fiction and autobiographical writing, show how unquestioned expectations about the future serve to direct the course of human lives and sustain different forms of injustice. Assumptions about both class and gender underpin future prospects in childhood, education, love, sex, pregnancy and marriage. Finally, writing itself is conceived by Ernaux predominantly in relation to the future.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139778750","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":"Annie Ernaux: future prospects and the politics of time","authors":"Ann Jefferson","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214674","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the elaboration of time as part of the formal construction that relates writing and politics in Ernaux's work. Beginning with her claim that ‘Écrire, c’est créer du temps’, particular attention is paid to the role of the future in Ernaux's ‘lived time’, especially the future as anticipated in the past. Her accounts of the past, in both fiction and autobiographical writing, show how unquestioned expectations about the future serve to direct the course of human lives and sustain different forms of injustice. Assumptions about both class and gender underpin future prospects in childhood, education, love, sex, pregnancy and marriage. Finally, writing itself is conceived by Ernaux predominantly in relation to the future.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"40 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139838372","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":"Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux: casting light on class migrant experience","authors":"Lyn Thomas","doi":"10.1177/09571558231214678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231214678","url":null,"abstract":"The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire de fille and to the letters I wrote at a similar period and phase of my life, as a first-generation student at St Hugh's College, Oxford in the early 70s. At the time, like Annie Duchesne, 1 I had no political or sociological understanding of my experience; reading Ernaux 20 years later in the early 90s was a literary epiphany, illuminating my trajectory from a working-class culture of origin to a middle-class life and career. My engagement with Ernaux over 30 years has also involved a continuous correspondence with the writer, which I draw on here, illustrating the blurred boundaries between intimacy and research discussed by Fraser and Puwar (2008) . This mise en scène of my reading self is placed within the context of the wider communities of class migrant readers of Ernaux: the lay readers studied by myself and Isabelle Charpentier, Ernaux specialists in academe, and the younger writers discussed by Aurélie Adler in this special issue.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"16 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780405","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":"Poïétique et politique du littéraire : Annie Ernaux, une écriture « au-dessous de la littérature » ?","authors":"Elise Hugueny-Léger","doi":"10.1177/09571558231216933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231216933","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Dans Une Femme (1987), Annie Ernaux affirmait se situer « au-dessous de la littérature » : dans quelle mesure ce positionnement, maintenu par l’autrice au fil des décennies, est-il compatible avec sa consécration ? Cet article envisage la publication des Années (2008) comme un tournant qui a été suivi de nombreux textes dialogiques et collaboratifs s’éloignant de formats littéraires consacrés et donnant à voir le processus de création de l’œuvre, autrement dit, sa poïétique. Le dévoilement de l’acte d’écrire contribue à instaurer une véritable généalogie de l’œuvre, voire à l’ancrer dans une dimension mythique qui n’est pourtant jamais séparée de préoccupations socio-politiques. Par un jeu d’échos entre publications littéraires et déclarations paratextuelles, cet article met à jour les ramifications profondes de la conception de l’écriture et du positionnement d’Ernaux vis-à-vis de l’idée de littérature.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780173","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}