{"title":"Lost in Adaptation: The Silencing of the French Female Concierge","authors":"Mariah Devereux Herbeck","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Fictional representations of the female concierge frequently underscore her negative attributes, above all her meddlesome discourse. The female concierge character in Georges Simenon's 1933 novel, Les fiançailles de M. Hire, however, provides an exception to the rule as local law authorities give credence to her word and base their investigation on her testimony. However, in two filmic adaptations of the novel—Duvivier's Panique (1946) and Patrice Leconte's Monsieur Hire (1989)—the female concierge character is practically absent. This article demonstrates how, from page to screen, the concierge's role is dissected, disembodied, and displaced in Duvivier's and Leconte's films, and finally reflects upon the significance of her silencing.","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131984091","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":"Voix intérieure by Safiatou Ba (review)","authors":"Cheryl Toman","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121467162","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":"Écrire avec et contre les voix des autres dans Philippe de Camille Laurens","authors":"Jamie Jia-Bao Huang","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Cet article s'intéresse à la façon dont l'auteure de Philippe écrit sur la naissance et la mort de son fils lorsque le savoir fait défaut. Selon notre hypothèse, chez Camille Laurens, la démarche consistant à « entendre le monde » en travaillant à partir de sources, c'est-à-dire en écrivant avec les « voix » que laissent percevoir différents documents—et, dans certains cas, contre elles—, lui permettrait d'appeler, implicitement ou explicitement, à la participation cognitive et affective du lectorat dans le processus de recherche tel qu'il est raconté en détail dans le récit. Pour vérifier cette hypothèse, nous nous penchons d'abord sur le conflit entre le désir d'oubli chez les autres et le projet de Laurens d'enquêter sur la mort en question. Ensuite, nous étudions comment l'usage des sources contribue à l'écriture de Philippe. Enfin, nous analysons comment ce récit, ressemblant en partie à un texte informatif, permet à Laurens de « s'engage[r] dans une entreprise de vérité […] qui tient du dévoilement » et, ce faisant, d'avoir potentiellement un impact émotionnel sur les lecteurs et lectrices.","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"1986 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131150529","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 maison de la tendresse/House of Tenderness. Nouvelles sur des femmes libanaises/Short stories about Lebanese women by Evelyne Accad (review)","authors":"Héloïse Elisabeth Ducatteau","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133100985","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":"Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom ed. by E. Nicole Meyer and Eilene Hoft-March (review)","authors":"M. Garnett","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121891583","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":"Letters from Spain: A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court by Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars (review)","authors":"G. Verdier","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127587757","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":"Le portrait de l'artiste peint par elle-même: Negotiations of the Artist-Muse Binary in George Sand's Elle et lui (1859)","authors":"Amy McTurk-Starkie","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While ideas about the Muse date from antiquity and have evolved over time, the concept of the male artist and his female muse has continually informed how creativity and inspiration are imagined and understood. This prevalent image of artistic creation—which problematizes the position of women as artists—was, however, visibly challenged by the increased number of female painters in nineteenth-century France. The growing presence of women artists on the cultural stage thus poses the question: when the artist is no longer automatically assumed to be male and the muse female, what is the status of the woman artist? In this article, McTurk-Starkie analyzes three key scenes involving mirrors, reflections, and painting in George Sand's Elle et lui (1859) in order to explore how Sand complicates assumed paradigms of the gaze between the painter and the painted figure. The article then examines the impact of the text's final act as one of self-portraiture; the protagonist Thérèse becomes l'artiste peinte par elle-même. By questioning the boundaries between self and other, and subject and object, Sand's Elle et Lui innovatively proposes alternative configurations of the relationship between artist, model, and canvas.","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117195007","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":"Afropea : Utopie post-occidentale et post-raciste by Léonora Miano (review)","authors":"Djimeli Raoul Simplice","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126657500","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":"Pizan, Christine de. \"The God of Love's Letter\" and \"The Tale of the Rose\": A Bilingual edition eds. and trans. by Thelma S. Fenster and Christine Reno (review)","authors":"Ashley Holt","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133119136","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":"Natalie Barney (1876-1972): Writer, salon hostess, and eternal friend. Interview with Jean Chalon","authors":"C. Ray","doi":"10.1353/wfs.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This interview with French journalist Jean Chalon gives the reader a personal viewpoint of writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972). Barney's literary salon was iconic in expatriate Paris, spanning the years from 1909 to 1968. Chalon helps the reader to better understand the literary and social milieu that comprised Barney's world, as well as provides new information on her most intimate relationships. Chalon discusses her strained yet loving relationship with her father, who never accepted that she lived openly as a lesbian in Paris. In addition, Chalon also speaks about her friendship with literary giant Remy de Gourmont, as well as her lifelong relationship with artist Romaine Brooks and Janine Lahovary, Barney's last love. The interview is a testament to Natalie Barney herself, who cultivated friendships until the end and whose literary contributions are only now being reconsidered.","PeriodicalId":391338,"journal":{"name":"Women in French Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129501962","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}