{"title":"« Lorsque vient le soir de la vie ». Représentations de la vieillesse dans les littératures d’expression française depuis 1970","authors":"Sophie Beaulé, S. Jișa","doi":"10.7202/1107701ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1107701ar","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"151 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244391","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":"Représenter et habiter le lieu dans les romans contemporains français dédiés à la vieillesse en institution","authors":"Cathy Dissler","doi":"10.7202/1107708ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1107708ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to observe the modalities of literary appropriation of institutional space in six care home narratives: Le Long Séjour by Régine Detambel (1991), Rhésus by Héléna Marienské (2006), On n'est pas là pour disparaître by Olivia Rosenthal (2007), Nous vieillirons ensemble by Camille by Peretti (2008), Les Gratitudes by Delphine de Vigan (2019) and Le Tiers Temps by Maylis Besserie (2020). From a lexical point of view, these novels work on a specific vocabulary, however revealing the need to put some distance towards it. From a narrative and descriptive point of view, all the tensions and dissensions that take place in care home are examined: between security and freedom, intimacy and promiscuity, individuality and collectivity, caregivers and patients. This study requires attention to how inhabitants’ voices and experiences are listened to.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"160 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244002","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":"La vieillesse ou comment revisiter le spleen dans Le dernier des Snoreaux d’Abla Farhoud","authors":"S. Jișa","doi":"10.7202/1107714ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1107714ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes to revisit the rich synonymy of “spleen” (sadness, regret, nostalgia, melancholy, boredom, unhappiness, fatigue, lassitude, languor, anguish, neurosis, pessimism, despair, or depression), in order to see how that word can be attached to a 21st century novel and to a specific age group, the elderly. Le dernier des Snoreaux was published in 2019 by Abla Farhoud, a Canadian writer of Lebanese origin. As the title suggests, the novel concerns a sibling, whose only living brother, Ibrahim Abou-Snobara, known as Snoreau, is dying in hospital. After a first crisis suffered at the age of eighteen as a consequence of an incomplete mourning for his brother who died in an accident, Ibrahim’s life will be made up of stays in hospitals or in prison, until today, when he is old and very ill. Talking about the human condition will be done by borrowing the aesthetics of the great splenic poets of the French 19th century in order to demonstrate how the finitude of the human condition can be sublimated through a literary work.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"131 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243819","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":"Représenter la vieillesse au-delà du miroir : Nicole Houde, Les oiseaux de Saint-John Perse","authors":"Cynthia Harvey","doi":"10.7202/1107704ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1107704ar","url":null,"abstract":"In her award-winning literary work, Nicole Houde explores the “marginal world of the forgotten.” In her novel Les oiseaux de Saint-John Perse (Governor General's Award 1995), she portrays an elderly couple living in an apartment in Montreal who will soon have to move to a “golden age manor.” Within the limited space of their apartment, which is preferable to exile in a retirement home, another character acts as a privileged witness to the couple's existence: the family caregiver, Josée. This article aims to explore the relationships that unite the three characters, as well as their relationship with interior and exterior space. In addition to enabling them to remain at home, Josée represents an opening to the outside world, a confidante, and a hope. Within the couple's enclosed world, she acts as a spectator, a guardian of failing memories, and a possible savior. This article aims to remind us of the importance of the bonds that help us navigate life's ups and downs. These elderly characters have not aged a day; they dream of travel, love, and freedom.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245994","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":"Re-rooting/routing the Black Experience in Édouard Glissant’s Poetics: An “in-between” Perspective","authors":"M. Ly","doi":"10.7202/1089963ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1089963ar","url":null,"abstract":"In his historical poetics, Édouard Glissant highlights the preponderant role played by the stripped migrant in his search for origins from Africa to the Caribbean. In so doing, he praises the latter’s endeavors throughout the adoption and adaptation to his new surroundings, the new world. In this article, the analysis is on the re-presentation of the past lived by the stripped migrant before, during, and after the moment of entanglement, when he started forming a rhizome-identity in comparison and contrast to the single-root identity perpetuated by the Békés. Such an approach brings to the fore the theoretical notion of detour developed by Glissant to defy and redefine the History or rather histories of the Caribbean archipelago that have been purposefully hidden by the “fictionneurs de l’Histoire” [History fiction writers], which makes him an atypical historian who gives a renewed version of the Afro-Caribbean tradition.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124270859","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":"Sous pression : la performativité dans Le Parfum du jour est fraise de Pascale Petit","authors":"Anne W Riley","doi":"10.7202/1089967ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1089967ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the manner in which Le Parfum du jour est fraise by Pascale Petit illustrates the concept of performativity in the literary context, and how the performative character of the poem lends itself to a translational rereading of the work. The analysis will focus first on a discussion of the general conceptual contours of performativity. Next we examine how the “voice” in the poem – the speaker who commands, controls and manipulates all – erases the distinction between the reader and the narratee, and how the voice manages to control and shape the reader as a subject of a quasi-scientific experiment. Finally, the discussion will explore performativity in translatology and in the experience of the translation of this text into English.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115483713","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":"Hospitality, Revolution and the Emigrant Experience: Guests and Hosts in French Revolutionary Novels of Emigration Written by Women Authors","authors":"Michèle Bokobza Kahan","doi":"10.7202/1089965ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1089965ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the presence of hospitality as a significant theme in four French Revolutionary novels of emigration written by three major female authors of that time, Isabelle de Charrière, Claire de Duras and Stéphanie de Genlis. It aims to highlight the multiple facets of the concept of hospitality in these novels and to demonstrate that beyond its traditional meaning, hospitality operates too in political, social and ethical realms: 1) it becomes the pivot of an introspective reflection: a critical look at the conventions and social practices of the French nobility, 2) it reflects a political thought: tensions between condemnation and loyalty to the Old Regime system, and between adherence to and suspicion of republican ideals, 3) last but not least, it opens a path to a feminist approach through situations that stage relationships of help and care by émigré women for émigré women. The reading angle that I propose in the article confirms the originality of these novels that link emigration and hospitality by evoking the potentiality of new situations, no matter how painful they may be: flexibility, emancipation, adaptation, openness, sharing and care are key themes that recur in the narratives to underline the transformative power of mutual support, responsibility and trust between women.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123049597","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":"Was Molière a Feminist? The Case of Célimène, an Independent Woman","authors":"Diana Koloini","doi":"10.7202/1089970ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1089970ar","url":null,"abstract":"Molière has often been treated as an anti-feminist, but this qualification disregards the complexity of his woman figures. In The Misanthrope, Célimène represents an exceptional woman figure that is a novelty in the classical literature. A master of brilliant conversation, she is a witty and charming salon lady. Her freedom causes concerns particularly for Alceste, the protagonist who dominates the play with his critical worldview. His assessment of Célimène’s conformism, coupled with her fickleness and falsity, was echoed by the majority of traditional commentaries that deemed her to be a slanderous coquette, hence a relatively banal figure. Countering such simplifications, the paper tries to establish Célimène as a complex, rich and subtle figure and explores the question to what extent she displays an independent spirit which equals Alceste’s. It examines the possibilities of woman’s freedom within the patriarchal framework of the time, and beyond.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117102823","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":"Queer N/Oceans: Vore and Child Abuse in Ananda Devi’s La vie de Joséphin le fou","authors":"Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland","doi":"10.7202/1089964ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1089964ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that in Ananda Devi’s La vie de Joséphin le fou (2003), the protagonist Joséphin assumes the form of a human-eel monster, engaging in acts of vorarephilia or “vore,” to satiate a murderous desire underwater. This analysis conceives Joséphin’s aquatic world as a paradoxically queer, abject, and maternal space in which Joséphin terrorizes two underage children as both their abductor and protector. Devi further reconfigures in her novel the archetype of the protective eel in Mauritian shamanistic practices by depicting Joséphin as a predatorial human-eel figure. Joséphin’s violence against the children as he assumes such a monstrous embodiment serves as a metaphor for child sexual abuse in Mauritius where, at the time of the novel’s publication, an estimated 2,600 children were victims of molestation.","PeriodicalId":311064,"journal":{"name":"Dalhousie French Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124169167","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}