{"title":"A Breton Bande Dessinée? Graphic Mosaics of Brittany","authors":"Armelle Blin-Rolland","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0320","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses the figure of the mosaic to explore the multiple ways in which Breton creators of bande dessinée have engaged with cutural, social and political questions from the 1940s to the twenty-first century. Graphic works published in the 1940s magazine O Lo Lê, created by Herri and Ronan Caouissin and later revived in the early 1970s, offered nostalgic images of a fantasized past, a form of cultural propaganda based on myths of Celtic ancestors, literary forefathers such as Auguste Brizeux, and the politics of provincialism. In the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s, amid calls for internal decolonization, the Breton BD scene became more varied, depicting emigration, unemployment and social unrest while giving voice to political dissent and deconstructing the clichés of picturesque localism. Finally, a selection of contemporary texts offers a space for re-examining Frenchness through the interplay between different languages and cultures, new models of relationality informed by postcolonial and ecocritical frameworks. As a hybrid, dynamic art form, BD emerges as a key contributor to the construction and deconstruction of community and group identities.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43303624","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":"‘Terres vaines et vagues’: Ecocriticism and Breton Wastelands in Visual and Literary Representation","authors":"M. Coughlin","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0315","url":null,"abstract":"Despite their long histories as a culturally valuable commons and sites of biodiversity, the Breton landes were frequently depicted by nineteenth-century authors, travellers and administrators as wild, unproductive wastelands. While the architects of France's ‘interior colonization’ identified such areas as an ugly, infertile expanse to be cleared and put to use, many visual artists were producing a compelling counter-narrative, representing the landes and zones humides as places of beauty and reverie. This article examines the work of artists such as François Blin, Camille Bernier, Alexandre Ségé and Henri Rivière from an ecocritical perspective, arguing that their work contributed to a discourse of preservation by encouraging new ways of seeing the land, not for its extractive utility but as a space of unexpected splendour and enchantment. Far from a regressive form of nostalgia, these images encourage a unique ‘dwelling perspective’ which uses aesthetic beauty to reveal the area's ecological potential and to articulate a call for responsible environmental stewardship.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42941737","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":"Évolution du phénomène de traduction dans le domaine littéraire de langue bretonne","authors":"N. Blanchard","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0317","url":null,"abstract":"Arguing that the concept of littérature-monde conceals unequal relations between literary cultures, this article examines the socio-economic contexts of literary translation from and into Breton from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. The value of translation across the corpus of 1025 texts lies primarily in creating intercultural relationships and promoting cultural diversity. Translation into Breton represents a vital defence of a language with dwindling speaker numbers: in the late 1970s it increases dramatically, with littérature de jeunesse spearheading a change in state policy allowing regional languages to be taught in schools. Yet translation can also reinforce an existing power imbalance, highlighting the central role played by French in the linguistic and literary construction of Breton society. Poetry, songs and contes translated from Breton often perpetuate stereotypes of a bardic, oral culture, while nationalist writers reject self-translation into French as capitulation before the dominant culture. Since the 1980s, many have chosen to bypass French by translating into languages such as Welsh, Scottish, Irish or Catalan, creating a network of minority literatures. Since the market for Breton translation is so small, however, such texts serve as valuable identity markers, a symbolic, affective force articulating a quest for socio-political legitimacy via literature.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44621228","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 Preuve par l'image: l'usage de la photographie dans La Moustache d'Emmanuel Carrère","authors":"Caroline Ferraris-Besso","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0307","url":null,"abstract":"Nous éloignant de lectures antérieures de La Moustache qui se penchent sur les questions de la folie et de l'identité, nous nous intéressons de manière systématique à l'exploitation du motif de la photographie par Emmanuel Carrère dans son roman (1986) et son film (2005). La première section s'intéresse au rôle du langage dans la création d'images ambivalentes dans le roman. La deuxième section est consacrée à l'adaptation cinématographique qui pose par le biais des photographies la question de la vérité. Dans une troisième section, nous examinons l'influence des représentations sur la réalité. Nous montrons qu'au travers de différentes manipulations autour des images photographiques, La Moustache, dans ses deux versions, met en question la perception, la représentation du réel et la question de la vérité.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"98-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42431965","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":"Humanisme, biopolitique et civilité: les cas d'Albert Camus et Malika Mokeddem","authors":"Raji Vallury","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0308","url":null,"abstract":"Mon article analyse la relation entre humanisme et biopolitique chez Albert Camus et Malika Mokeddem. Faisant appel au concept de la civilité, je suggère que Mokeddem rapièce l’écart creusé par Camus entre vie humaine et vie politique. Proposée par Étienne Balibar, la civilité présuppose l'inséparabilité de l'appartenance à l'humanité et l'appartenance à la vie politique; l'impossibilité de diviser l'existence humaine entre la vie nue et la vie politique. Camus et Mokeddem désignent l'espace de la politique comme la sphère d'une apparence, où un sujet se rend visible et audible par la parole. Mokeddem trace une civilité capable d'intégrer le droit de cité des femmes, dessinant une communauté égalitaire soustraite à la logique des régimes biopolitiques. « Féminisant » l'humanisme, Mokeddem démontre qu'une capacité politique partagée en commun fait l'humanité, et pas le contraire. Camus et Mokeddem offrent des alternatives au « nécro-pouvoir » identifié par Achille Mbembe comme constitutif des régimes coloniaux et postcoloniaux.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"114-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47158398","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":"‘Une image bien choisie qui fait bouillir les sangs’: Frédéric Lordon and the 2008 Financial Crisis","authors":"Calum Watt","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0303","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the thought of the contemporary French philosopher and economist Frédéric Lordon and analyses his responses to the 2008 global financial crisis. The key focus is on a play in alexandrine verse that Lordon wrote about the crisis, D'un retournement l'autre: comédie sérieuse sur la crise financière (2011). The article contextualizes the play and situates it within Lordon's wider intellectual project, which draws on Marx and Spinoza to provide a political theory of affects. I compare the ways Lordon explains the derivative finance at the heart of the subprime crisis in both his play and his economic writings. My discussion centres on the concepts of affect and image in Lordon's attempt to explain the crisis to the public, in whom Lordon wants to inspire the desire for political change. I conclude by asking critically how useful Lordon's theory and literary work are in a time of crisis.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"33-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43683998","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":"Jacques Réda's ‘Le Noir et l'or de Dresde’: Ethics and Aesthetics in War's Wake","authors":"L. Anderson","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0309","url":null,"abstract":"In ‘Le Noir et l'or de Dresde’ ( Europes, 2005), Jacques Réda's quixotic project is to excavate a Dresden that is no more. Fully aware of this paradoxical aim as he walks through its martyred cityscape ‘vers la Dresde du XVIIIe siècle en sachant qu'elle n'existait plus’, he reflects on images present and past: sun-drenched spires remembered from eighteenth-century paintings that stand as witness to what no longer exists, the brutal bombings by American and British forces during the Second World War, and the commercialized aftermath of German reunification. As Réda moves beyond assessing tragedy through a historical lens, his poetic prose commemorates trauma by accentuating chromatic, lexical and aural textures and intensities in order to open avenues towards shared subjectivity. He establishes an ethical and aesthetic trajectory that responds creatively to war's destruction, and concludes by reframing the city's heraldic colours, black and gold, within sunset's unifying transit across a poetically reconstructed skyline","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"131-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43892511","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":"The Poet and the Philanthropists: William Chapman's Aspirational Bid for the Nobel Prize","authors":"Erin E. Edgington","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0301","url":null,"abstract":"French Canadian poet William Chapman is generally dismissed as second-rate imitator of Lamartine, Hugo or his compatriot Louis Fréchette. Chapman's bitter feud with Fréchette has been – much more than the five collections of verse he published between 1876 and 1912 – his claim to fame. Despite being at odds with his North American contemporaries, Chapman was indefatigable in his pursuit of literary prestige. Chapman's quest for literary honours including the Nobel Prize, while it has thus far attracted the derision of critics, in fact provides context for a deeper understanding of his poetic practice within the shifting philanthropic landscape of the turn of the century. Close readings of two of Chapman's poems, ‘À M. Andrew Carnegie’ and ‘Nobel’, alongside contemporary journalistic sources, point to a new understanding of Chapman's considerable body of occasional verse and of Chapman himself as a savvy professional attuned to the developing ‘economy of prestige’.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48190275","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 Réception critique de l'écriture engagée de Jean Genet: les exemples de «Violence et brutalité» et d'Un captif amoureux","authors":"Karl Ågerup","doi":"10.3366/NFS.2021.0304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NFS.2021.0304","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the critical reception of two of Jean Genet's most political texts is studied and discussed with regards to the theoretical opposition between poetical and political language. While Un captif amoureux had a fairly heterogeneous and confused reception, ‘Violence et brutalité’ was generally rejected and described as pro-terrorist propaganda. This difference is explained as a result of both textual and historical factors. Moreover, the critics’ inability to attach a genre to Un captif amoureux is discussed and explained as a result of the work's innovative style and structure, for example its particular way of assembling political and poetical patterns.","PeriodicalId":19182,"journal":{"name":"Nottingham French Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"50-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44836445","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}