{"title":"The body as metaphor","authors":"R. Rosenberg","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70527659","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":"Pain, trauma and the voice of the body in contemporary Irish-language women’s poetry","authors":"Caitríona Ní Chléirchín","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44103424","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":"A new name for the Institute of Modern Languages Research","authors":"C. Burdett, Joseph Ford","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49662097","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":"French perspectives on conflict","authors":"Madeleine R. Chalmers","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46470990","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":"Conflicting relations in Christine Angot’s Un amour impossible [‘An Impossible Love’]","authors":"Hannah Lawlor","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.17","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000As a force that both sets apart and drives together, impelling a relationship even as it impedes it, conflict pervades Christine Angot’s œuvre. The incestuous abuse that she figures so insistently seems to encapsulate the violence of this double bind, and in narrative terms, its ‘victor or vanquished’ outcome. In several of her polemical works, which both invite and unsettle an autobiographical reading, the narrator ‘Christine’ compulsively articulates the harrowing details of her abuse. Her speaking out has the effect of suppressing her mother’s perspective, and the latter supplants the father as the focus of Christine’s hostility. Angot’s 2015 publication, Un amour impossible, by contrast, marks an attempt to accommodate the mother’s side of the story. By unpicking the narrative dynamics of the text, this article evaluates the success of this endeavour, and considers how the conflicting relations Angot portrays cut through illusions of balance and concord in relational life-writing.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44129070","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 May 1967 massacre in Guadeloupe","authors":"Grace Carrington","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.21","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000On 26 May 1967, French police opened fire on striking workers in Pointeà-Pitre, Guadeloupe, sparking a major uprising across the city. According to officials at the time, eight Guadeloupeans were killed during the unrest and many more were injured. However, a state cover-up means we may never know the true death toll. The French government blamed the violence on a clandestine independence movement (GONG) and tried nineteen activists before the French court of state security for threatening the territorial integrity of the French Republic. Fifty years later, the massacre has received little acknowledgement outside Guadeloupe. This paper will argue that a clearer understanding of the May 1967 massacre and its legacy demonstrates that Guadeloupe is not an anomaly, disconnected from twentieth-century decolonization. Instead, this event highlights the failures of nationalist movements in Guadeloupe and draws links to other struggles for self-determination in the Caribbean and Algeria, situating Guadeloupe within the wider narrative of global decolonization.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44272507","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":"‘Mediated memories of responsibility’: Seminar series, IMLR, 10 March 2021, 19 May 2021, and 14 October 2021 (online)","authors":"G. Bartolini","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48616553","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":"‘They left their soul on the other side of the Mediterranean’","authors":"Álvaro Luna-Dubois","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.20","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article proposes a reading of Mehdi Charef’s Le Harki de Meriem [‘Meriem’s Harki’] (1989) and its 2016 edition that focuses on the text’s discursive and paratextual practices employed to represent Franco-Algerian historical and cultural heritage. This non-linear narrative presents a family saga over the course of the twentieth century, revealing in the process key episodes of the mutual and turbulent history of colonial Algeria and postcolonial France. Through a discussion of passages and editorial work that relate the novel with historical events, I will trace patterns of critique that emphasize their concern with history as a source of knowledge. Such a dialectical analysis will in turn provide a reading paradigm that paves the way into a hybrid France that fragments both the French national grand narrative and Franco-Algerian memory.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47090305","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":"Marcel Bénabou","authors":"Fabienne Cheung","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2022.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2022.18","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Marcel Bénabou is one of the longest-serving members of one of France’s most iconic and enduring literary groups, the Oulipo. Despite his dedicated service to the group’s collaborative activity, little scholarly interest has been shown in Bénabou’s solo literary projects. As a Moroccan francophone Jew, living and working in France (and French) since the 1950s, his playful and experimental autobiographical works demonstrate an attitude towards multilingualism that is characterized by conflict and creativity. This article introduces two of Bénabou’s works that explore his relation to multilingualism, using Derrida’s Le Monolinguisme de l’autre [The Monolingualism of the Other] as a point of comparison. I argue that Bénabou’s multilingualism is at times a source of anxiety, a conflicted tension between different poles of his identity. Nonetheless, it has also bestowed him with a creative freedom that has allowed him to explore different subjectivities, and ultimately to find his place within the Oulipo.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46305546","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}