French Studies: A Quarterly Review最新文献

{"title":"Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts by Marion Schmid (review)","authors":"K. Reader","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac103","url":null,"abstract":"Putting aside the example of malaria, which has already been the focus of recent major studies by scholars such as Mitchitake Aso, Velmet focuses primarily on TB and yellow fever vaccinations in Vietnam and Senegal. There is also a fascinating chapter dedicated to the attempt to introduce pasteurization methods to alcohol production in French Indochina as part of the colonial authorities’ drive to monopolize the industry. The Pastorians, as Velmet refers to them, often enjoyed a privileged status in the colonies, and their legacy continues to be celebrated as distinct from other aspects of colonial rule and oppression. Yet, many of those involved in the race to find vaccines and to roll out large vaccination programmes overseas benefited from their positions and from reduced levels of oversight to push undeveloped, ill-informed programmes and also to engage in their own colonial exploits. Notable here is the story of Alexandre Yersin’s empire-building in French Indochina which saw him buy up and develop coffee and rubber plantations. This privileged and paradoxical status takes centre stage during the 1931 Exposition coloniale internationale in Paris, during which colonial doctors found themselves cited as part of anti-colonial struggles at the same time as their work was being upheld as evidence of the benefits of French occupation. What is perhaps most interesting for our own moment is the way that vaccines such as the BCG vaccination programme in Indochina functioned as what Velmet calls a ‘technopolitical’ tool and were co-opted to a discourse that presented colonialism as a form of humanitarianism. Yet, as Velmet carefully demonstrates, often the use of vaccines was presented as a kind of ‘magic bullet’ in place of, rather than alongside, other much-needed reforms to healthcare, housing, and labour conditions. Vaccination programmes were often described by doctors and officials using military terminology appropriated from the wider discourse associated with colonial occupation and its opposition. The complex geopolitics of vaccines currently playing out in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, not to mention the instrumentalization of wartime discourse, attests to the ongoing legacy of colonial vaccination programmes. As such, Velmet’s study of the Pastorians makes an invaluable and timely contribution to understanding the historical context and technopolitical stakes of global contagion and its containment.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125909208","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":"Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet by Ziad Elmarsafy (review)","authors":"S. Qadiri","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac089","url":null,"abstract":"une approche intersectionnelle, qui chercherait à tenir compte de l’expérience vécue des personnes, et des différents niveaux de discrimination dont elles peuvent être victimes dans un contexte social donné. Il en va ainsi par exemple d’Annie Leclerc qui, dans Parole de femme (Paris: Grasset, 1974), représente la grossesse comme une expérience résolument positive, libératrice et créative. Tomlinson propose, à l’aide de critiques de cette pensée universalisante telles que Christine Delphy, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ou encore Chandra Talpade Mohanty, et d’études sociologiques spécifiques à chacun des contextes, de réfléchir à l’héritage de la deuxième vague dans les œuvres d’un nombre d’autrices contemporaines, en cherchant à déterminer si les écrivaines étudiées adoptent une perspective intersectionnelle dans leur traitement du cycle reproducteur féminin. Elle démontre ainsi que de nombreux traits du féminisme de la deuxième vague française se retrouvent dans ces récits, qui adoptent en même temps une approche plus située dans le contexte social représenté dans chaque œuvre. L’exemple du traitement de la ménopause est particulièrement intéressant, car il est l’un des aspects les plus originaux de l’ouvrage. Tomlinson explique que très peu d’intérêt est accordé au phénomène dans les écrits de la deuxième vague; et Leclerc et Marie Cardinal reproduisent même la perception négative traditionnellement associée au phénomène lorsqu’elles l’évoquent dans Autrement dit (Paris: Grasset, 1977). Elle note que la ménopause demeure la grande absente des œuvres d’autrices contemporaines, suggérant une adhésion persistante aux clichés sexistes qui la caractérisent. Elle souligne néanmoins que des représentations plus nuancées de la ménopause existent, notamment dans Bleu blanc vert (2007) et Hizya (2015) de Bey, qui présentent l’expérience de la ménopause comme influencée par le contexte social des personnages, et même comme une libération pour certaines des héroı̈nes mises en scène, cherchant ainsi à subvertir le tabou qui demeure dans la société algérienne. La critique principale adressée aux féministes de la deuxième vague dans l’ouvrage (et ailleurs) est une tendance à porter un regard monolithique sur les questions féministes; or, on pourrait arguer que l’ouvrage reproduit parfois la même tendance en présentant la deuxième vague comme un bloc univoque. Néanmoins, la richesse, l’érudition et l’originalité de l’étude sont tout à fait remarquables, et le style abordable du texte, en fera un outil précieux et accessible pour les étudiant e s autant que pour les spécialistes.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115302814","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":"Dictionnaire des figures du 7e art d'origine littéraire par Michel Serceau (review)","authors":"E. Ousselin","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114084554","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":"Sociologie du cinéma par Aurélie Pinto et Philippe Mary (review)","authors":"E. Ousselin","doi":"10.1093/fs/knac095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132878281","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":"Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789. By Julie Hardwick","authors":"H. C. Clark","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121584306","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":"Réponse du 'Juif' à l'antisémite: Derrida, commentateur de L'Esprit du christianisme de Hegel","authors":"Charlotte Thevenet","doi":"10.1093/FS/KNAB182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/FS/KNAB182","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarship on Derrida has largely led us to believe that the philosopher's concern with Judaism and Jewishness only began with his later work. This stance fails to account for Glas, a book composed in two columns and published in 1974, in which Derrida comments on a violently anti-Jewish text by Hegel, The Spirit of Christianity. This article aims to demonstrate the continuity of Derrida's concern with Jewishness in his œuvre, and to examine the way he responds to Hegel's anti-Jewish discourse in his commentary. The article argues that Derrida, through various enunciative strategies that we will follow in detail, claims for himself the very traits Hegel assigns to the 'Jew' and, even further, turns them into key elements of his poetics. In accordance with the commentary technique he has elaborated in his previous works, Derrida does not directly address the anti-Jewish theses he comments on, but reads Hegel against himself: by transforming Hegel's most antisemitic tropes, he strategically hijacks Hegel's text in favour of a 'Jewish' poetics that performatively responds to the antisemitic logics on which he comments.Abstract:Une certaine réception de Derrida laisse à penser que la préoccupation du philosophe pour le judaïsme ou la judéité ne serait apparue qu'assez tard dans son œuvre. C'est oublier que dès Glas, livre en deux colonnes paru en 1974, le philosophe s'attache à commenter un texte à l'antijudaïsme violent, L'Esprit du christianisme de Hegel. L'objectif de cet article est double: il s'agit à la fois de montrer la continuité de la préoccupation du philosophe pour la judéité, et de détailer la façon dont il répond au discours antisémite de Hegel à travers son commentaire Nous soutenons l'hypothèse que Derrida, à travers des stratégies de citation et de démarcation énonciative qu'il s'agira pour nous de suivre et d'examiner, se réapproprie les traits attribués au 'Juif ' par Hegel et en fait les éléments producteurs de sa poétique dans Glas. Conformément à la technique de commentaire élaborée dans ses textes précédents, Derrida ne réplique pas frontalement aux thèses antijudaïques qu'il commente, mais prend le parti de lire Hegel contre luimême: en transformant les tropes les plus antijudaïques de Hegel, il détourne stratégiquement le texte commenté au profit d'une poétique 'juive' qui lui permet d'élaborer une réponse en acte aux logiques antisémites qu'il commente.","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131533881","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":"Poésie et cosmologie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle: nouvelle mythologie de la nuit à l'ère du positivisme by Elsa Courant (review)","authors":"Marine Ganofsky","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131826084","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":"Fénelon, du paradoxe à la répétition: pur amour, pur style by Agathe Mezzadri-Guedj (review)","authors":"Anne-Élisabeth Spica","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131195626","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":"Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Colonial Traveller, Enlightenment Reformer, Celebrity Writer by Simon Davies (review)","authors":"V. Kapor","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132933180","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":"Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War by Amy L. Hubbell (review)","authors":"Khalid Lyamlahy","doi":"10.1093/fs/knab156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knab156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332929,"journal":{"name":"French Studies: A Quarterly Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126757815","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}