{"title":"Les Dessins trans-conscients de Stéphane Mallarmé par Ernest Fraenkel : une méthode originale","authors":"A. Samson, Serge Chamchinov","doi":"10.4000/coma.8240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124633358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction au numéro « mots et images »","authors":"Kora Véron, Yves Chemla","doi":"10.4000/coma.8665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132720456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Colombes et Menfenil” in Text and Image: Taking Flight From Conquest in Aimé Césaire and Wifredo Lam’s Collaborative Aesthetics","authors":"K. Seligmann","doi":"10.4000/coma.8544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8544","url":null,"abstract":"1 In Aimé Césaire’s essay on Wifredo Lam’s art from the mid-1940s, he signals both the universal reach and particular location of Lam’s work 1 . He first describes the universal gift of Lam’s work as follows: « Dans une société où la machine et l’argent ont démesurément agrandi la distance de l’homme aux choses, Wifredo Lam fixe sur la toile la cérémonie pour laquelle toutes existent : la cérémonie de l’union physique de l’homme et du monde 2 . » In this formulation, Césaire ascribes to Lam’s painting a reparative quality to the alienation imposed by modernity. Lam’s art as ceremony restores the unity fractured by modernity. Lam’s particular location (or locus of enunciation) for this kind of work is as important, and Césaire positions it in a poetic formulation: « Et que c’est au nom de ces hommes, au nom de ces rescapés du plus grand naufrage de l’histoire, que parle Wifredo Lam 3 . » The move is subtle, and Césaire is not specific here about which peoples exactly Lam paints in the name of , but the context of Césaire’s reading of Lam includes the history of empire in the Caribbean that shapes both artists, including the history of chattel slavery, the lack of restitution for the formerly enslaved upon abolition, the regime of indentured labor that succeeded from it, and the continued racialized character of dispossession throughout the Caribbean and beyond. While Césaire writes about Lam, we might also understand Césaire’s work as a universal restoration of the world enacted in the name of the survivors of history’s greatest shipwreck. The ceremony of Lam’s work, like that of Césaire’s, starts from the alienation of the survivors of history and takes flight from the distortions of history’s violence to the edge ( au bout ) of its beyond, where the This essay examines a little-studied aesthetic collaboration between Aimé Césaire and Wifredo Lam to depict doves and a bird of prey (called “menfenil”) in text and image. “Colombes et menfenil” was the title of a selection of poems by Césaire that was published in Hémisphères magazine in 1944 with an illustration by Wifredo Lam. Both birds also appear in Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal and Lam’s illustrations of the of the Spanish translation of this poem published in Cuba the previous year. They go on to recur in later paintings by Lam: “Menfenil” (1947), “Lunguanda yembe” (1950), and “La colombe noire” (1959). The birds in question have archetypical significance as symbols of peace and war that connect to the history of colonialism. I propose with this essay a critical dialogue with Césaire and Lam’s work on these birds to diffuse the conquest-thinking that informs the symbolic economy and contributes to normalizing the persistence of racialized hierarchies embedded in the history of colonial dispossession and exploitation. In their collaborative aesthetic recasting of these archetypal bird figures, I argue that both poet and painter symbolically take them over to take flight from conqu","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116154095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patrice Nganang, « homme-numérique » à la croisée du littéraire et du politique","authors":"Claire Ducournau","doi":"10.4000/coma.8685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114509317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rumor of the Earth: Anti-nuclear Ecologies in Lam and Char’s Contre une maison sèche","authors":"Jackqueline Frost","doi":"10.4000/coma.8294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8294","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the collaborative projects of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and French poet René Char as thematizing an imbrication between two different ends of the world: the end of the colonial world through decolonization and the end of terrestrial life in nuclear war. This connection, I argue, is pursued by Lam and Char through a set of socio-ecological commitments in which the relation between humanity and the earth heralds an apocalyptic vision of planetary crisis. I proceed to my argument by reconstructing Char and Lam’s investments in a political aesthetics of inter-species and earthly habitation, beginning in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, the threat of nuclear destruction transforms the meaning of the earth , especially in Char’s poetics. At the center of my analysis is their collaborative book, Contre une maison sèche , which I read in continuity with late 1960s anti-nuclear struggles. Finally, I suggest that we think formal decolonization and anti-nuclear ecology together as a point of historical reference for the current ecological crisis. What I call “the rumor of the Earth,” after Lam’s 1950 painting, names the possible but as-yet undiscovered forms of inhabiting the Earth and of making new relations at all levels of the general ecology. de mon analyse se trouve leur livre collaboratif, Contre une maison sèche , que je lis dans la continuité des luttes antinucléaires à la fin des années 1960. Enfin, je propose de penser ensemble la décolonisation formelle et l’écologie anti-nucléaire comme point de référence historique de la crise écologique actuelle. Ce que j’appelle « la rumeur de la Terre », d’après le tableau de Lam de 1950, nomme les formes possibles mais encore inconnues d’habiter la Terre et d’établir de nouvelles relations à tous les niveaux de l’écologie générale.","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121419234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corps perdu d’Aimé Césaire et de Pablo Picasso, un recueil de guerres et de paix","authors":"Kora Véron","doi":"10.4000/coma.8082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/coma.8082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":226755,"journal":{"name":"Continents manuscrits","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132370359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}