Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.01
C. Dobrescu
{"title":"Exploring/Inventing East-European Noir. An Attempt to Modelling Historical Transformation","authors":"C. Dobrescu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.01","url":null,"abstract":"The essay proposes a common spectrum of noir detective fictions emerging in the countries of the former Soviet Bloc. Accordingly, it substantiates the assumption that similar political, social, cultural, economic threats and opportunities contributed to the preservation of a certain air de famille among the genre productions of the countries of the area even after the fall of Communism. The common Communist heritage of genre fiction, cinema, and television is synthesised in three main categories: Cold War “noir” and Socialist “grey”, alternative noir, and popular noir. The crime & detection dimensions of the EU phase of the evolution of East-European countries are equally organised in three clusters, called retrospective noir, introspective noir, and prospective noir.","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49116465","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.10
P. Bléton
{"title":"Lu à l’ouest, le crime de l’est a du lest","authors":"P. Bléton","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.10","url":null,"abstract":"\"Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing consequences for writers and readers; the a priori pragmatic- semantic configurations informing the act of reading (culture of fiction, culture of the author and culture of the reader); the symbolic displacement of the disappeared Iron Curtain towards two types of thematic border: one by excess (the perpetuated over-border) and the other by default (the checkpoint and the confines).\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42228259","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.09
Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu
{"title":"Death Becomes Her. Implicit Religion, Relics, Myth-Making and the Witch Complex in Visual Representations of Women in Film Noir. A Case Study","authors":"Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.09","url":null,"abstract":"\"While cinema and especially the Hollywood Golden Age has constructed a mythology of its own, cinematic storytelling has also recycled heavily on classic mythologies and cultural stereotypes. The female figures have represented during the Hollywood Golden Age and in film noir in particular a special category from this perspective, being both deified and demonized, depicted as goddesses, vampires, fascinating ghosts and, above all, femmes fatales. Classic feminist studies have argued that both this depiction/representation, verbal or visual, and the intended spectator, are male. Based on a comparative case-study, the current paper discusses the manner in which what I call a cinematic witch complex is constructed through either hiding or revealing in order to conclude which is more efficient in the process of gendered myth-making.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48253456","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.04
Primož Mlačnik
{"title":"From Minor Literature to Neoliberal Noir: The Detective Novels of Sergej Verč","authors":"Primož Mlačnik","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.04","url":null,"abstract":"\"In this article, we analyze the politics of representation in the detective tetralogy (1991- 2009) of the late Slovenian and Triestinian writer Sergej Verč. Addressing several aspects of Verč’s primary literary semiotic device of schizophrenia, we trace a simultaneous literary and chronological shift from minor literature to neoliberal noir. We expose the fundamental representational ambiguity by analyzing the detective triad (murder-victim-criminal), the fetishization of detective clues, the erotization of detection, and the underlying binary oppositions. Verč’s detective novels critique the Slovenian capitalist transition but also reproduce culturally conservative representations of gender, sexuality, and family.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41848650","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.21
G. Peylet
{"title":"Le masculin et le féminin dans le roman sandien : Vers un dépassement de la dualité","authors":"G. Peylet","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.21","url":null,"abstract":"\"From Indiana to Nanon, from 1832 to 1872, G. Sand never ceased to revolt against the abuse of power of which women are victims in a society made for men and directed by them. She also sought to find a positive response to this tyranny which makes women a dependent being, by reflecting on another form of relationship between man and woman and on a new role that women could play within the society. After being a victim, the Sandian woman becomes an educator of herself and others, a true mediator before engaging in social life alongside men. In this male/female relationship, education, which plays a central role, is based on dialectical thinking. Through education, the Sandian character learns to overcome the social, political, cultural and psychological barriers that hinder being.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43250465","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.24
Eylül-Sabo-Andrada Yunusoglu
{"title":"“The Harem Within”: The Complexity of Female Identity in Elif Shafak’s Black Milk","authors":"Eylül-Sabo-Andrada Yunusoglu","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.24","url":null,"abstract":"In a post-modern world where selfhood is defined by diversity and multiplicity, Elif Shafak’s Black Milk outlines how women’s experiences depict a tragic fate. In this memoir Elif Shafak writes about motherhood and authorship and the many stereotypes women face in a patriarchal society. For many women writers, motherhood became a burden, because they had to choose between being a “good” mother and a “good” author. This article aims to explore the complexity of women’s identity in Black Milk through a feminist perspective and also to analyse Elif Shafak’s feminine discourse and its empowerment process. Elif Shafak questions the norms of the patriarchal society, because it enforces a “given” identity for both women and men. Black Milk also outlines the anxiety women face when it comes to writing, motherhood and many other experiences, describing an enormous pressure put on women to reflect an ideal.","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42901279","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.03
Katre Talviste
{"title":"The Curious Case of Juhan Paju and a Fortunate Choice of Pop Lit over Poetry","authors":"Katre Talviste","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.03","url":null,"abstract":"\"This essay proposes a study of the poetics and local generic context of the work of Juhan Paju (1939–2003), arguably one of the very few original Estonian crime writers emerged from the twentieth century. The focus is on five of his novels centred on investigations led by Toivo Kivistik, a small-town police detective. The series is set in the last decades of the twentieth and the early years of the twenty-first century. This tumultuous period in local history has provided rich material for socially relevant themes. Paju’s work is original in treating this material, but also in his experiments with generic conventions, which he progressively adapts to his own talent and to the local context.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48917686","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.18
Călina Părău
{"title":"Residues and Presents in Contemporary Shrinking Temporalities","authors":"Călina Părău","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.18","url":null,"abstract":"\"Taking into consideration the inherent crisis in our experience and perception of time, we will have to ask ourselves what is the link between the way in which we engage with the “present” and with the “aesthetic” in our postmodern societies as we experience the opposing categories of the “resisting” and the “elusive”. Zygmunt Bauman believes that our “liquid culture” is marked by discontinuity and forgetting as our social realities become more and more fragmented. Frederic Jameson also mentions the ways in which “the displacement of old-fashioned industrial labor by the newer cybernetic kind” has changed continuity- based possibilities of engaging with reality. A temporality of “passive reception” rather than “agency” characterizes our possibilities of making sense of reality. It is highly important to discuss about the language of an aesthetic, cultural and subjective “present” as a possibility of creating meaning from inside categories of experience that oppose our culture of the fugitive and disengagement.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42832515","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.25
Fatema-Ezzahra Taznout
{"title":"Yasmine Chami, une écriture de l’intranquilité","authors":"Fatema-Ezzahra Taznout","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.25","url":null,"abstract":"\"Yasmine Chami’s fictional work is made of the meticulous exploration of the sphere of the intimate in the manner of a caving of the consciousness of being in the world. A narrative motif in particular comes off for the systematic nature of its occurrences, that of abandonment (of the woman by her spouse). This leitmotiv strikingly crystallizes the fragility of couple bonds and inevitably induces a profound questioning of the relationships between women and men and the representations that underlie them. In order to shed new light on the life path of her heroines, the author mobilizes a multifaceted imagination. In the present study, the focus will be primarily on the ingenious use she makes of storytelling and mythology as major narrative springs which allow the work to unfold simultaneously on the intimate and the universal level.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49559300","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}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.16
C. Borbély
{"title":"Noir Affect in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City","authors":"C. Borbély","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.16","url":null,"abstract":"\"Taking its cue from Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker’s rethinking of noir affect as a descriptor of detective fiction, this paper contributes to the discussion of South African writer Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City as a narrative that both harnesses and fluidifies the generic conventions of the crime thriller. Pondering Beukes’s claim that her story may become the site for the transmutation or transmission of ethically adjusted emotion, the paper resorts to Lauren Berlant’s thoughts on detective fiction as a genre condensing the “cruel optimism” of the ordinary, rather than the evental, present to explore the clues of affectional attunement in Lauren Beukes’s postapartheid novel.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45367196","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}