{"title":"To nobody …","authors":"James N. Agar","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares aspects of the autofictional modes of self-representation at play in Genet’s Journal du voleur [The Thief’s Journal] and Herve Guibert’s Mes parents [My Parents]. Despite their different historical periods of production (1949 and 1986, respectively), each text deploys key aspects of the seemingly autobiographical text (recounting the event of birth, significance of the family name, dawning sense of sexual desire and identity) in order to portray a sense of being at odds with prevailing strictures of belonging and good taste. Despite foregrounding a sense of ‘misfitting’, which is primarily located in experiences of, and related to, gay sexuality, the texts also testify to the enduring appeal and imposed potency of the socially sanctioned desire for straightforward autobiographical selfhood. Taken together, the texts suggest a reading which foregrounds shifting textual pluralities of reimagined, transitory, textual forms of selfhood rather than a named singular self","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49488433","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":"Affective disorder","authors":"K. Posso","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.5","url":null,"abstract":"Caetano Veloso claims that the outrage—‘trauma’—Glauber Rocha’s Terra em transe ([Entranced Earth] 1967) provoked, particularly amongst Brazil’s leftwing intelligentsia, precipitated the varied forms of counter-cultural production known collectively as Tropicália. This article examines how the film articulates its ‘traumatic’ political and ethical agenda through the manipulation of sensation and emotion, especially through its unlikely insistence on love in the midst of the depiction of political turmoil. It maintains that by espousing what might be termed an affective art of relationality, Rocha appears less concerned with representing transcendent ideals and more with generating affects, qualities of feeling or sensations, which resist categorical interpretation. This resistance to, or disruption of, representation and epistemological conventions through affect in Terra em transe constitutes an attempt to intervene ethically and politically in the world in a non-partisan fashion. In so doing, the essay redresses gaps in existing and widely accepted readings of one of the most important films in the history of Brazilian cinema. It also seeks to expand the discussion of affect theory in the context of cinema.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42290523","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":"Life after literature","authors":"Avril Tynan","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42001700","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":"Logical ‘phallicies’","authors":"Paige M. Piper","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"75-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44813919","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 poetics of tactility in Jean Genet’s: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs","authors":"D. Rosenberg","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"119-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41788693","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 Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives’, IMLR, 20 September 2019","authors":"K. Y. Wong","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"187-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42329447","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 Dissidence in Gisèle Pineau’s œuvre","authors":"Antonia Wimbush","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.8","url":null,"abstract":"Gisele Pineau is one of Guadeloupe’s most versatile contemporary women authors. Writing in an array of genres – (auto)biographies, short stories, and novels – she narrates the story of the Dissiden...","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"159-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43662704","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":"Dancing in and out of the archive","authors":"Carlota Caulfield","doi":"10.3828/JRS.2019.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JRS.2019.13","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the body of early twentieth-century dancer Carmen Tortola Valencia captured the imagination of diverse audiences in the decades up to the declaration of the Second Spanish...","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46865632","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":"Male nudity and trauma in Marc Recha’sPau i el seu germàandDies d’agost","authors":"Antón Pujol","doi":"10.3828/JRS.2019.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/JRS.2019.14","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I analyse two of Marc Recha’s films, Pau i el seu germa (2001) [‘Pau and his Brother’] and Dies d’agost (2006) [‘August Days’], attending closely to their inclusion of several scene...","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47905636","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}