{"title":"Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality","authors":"Pierre-Antoine Pellerin","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5560","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout his autobiographical cycle of fourteen novels, Jack Kerouac tried to present his narrator and his protagonists as archetypes of American masculinity who fought against their perceived domestication in a society which they characterized as undergoing feminization. Whether it be in the Sierra Nevada in 1955, in The Dharma Bums (1958),or in the Northern Cascades in 1956, in Desolation Angels (1965), Kerouac’s alter ego and first-person narrator engages in an escapist fantasy into the animal realm where he can regain a sense of authentic masculine identity, away from the feminizing effects of domesticity and civilization. Yet, large wild animals are almost never to be found in his novels and the long-awaited encounter with deadly predators does not occur, forcing the narrator to reconfigure the relationship between masculinity and animality. Taking the popular hunting narratives featured in men’s adventure magazines as the dominant norm in this regard, this paper aims at showing how Kerouac’s representation of masculinity and animality strongly diverges from the erotics of male predation to be found in the “real man VS wild beast” plot. In those two novels, his poetics revolves instead around notions of kinship and sentimentality towards smaller animals, transforming the manly ethos and the inhospitable wilderness of adventure stories of the times into a domestic world of mutual harmony and hospitality.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115815383","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":"Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur","authors":"Agnès Derail-Imbert","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.5576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.5576","url":null,"abstract":"The historical naturalist discourse, which serves as an epistemological framework to the narrator of Crevecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer, draws upon the observation of local animals in order to praise a society of freedom, in which the American farmer’s autonomy depends on the harmonious relationship with his natural environment. This idealized vision is shattered by the horror of slavery which prompts the narrator to conclude that civilization is only a state of nature where man is “an animal of prey” ready to enslave others. In the sequel to this philosophical essay, the narrator resumes his naturalist account with the description of local reptiles, whose murderous behavior hardly fails to evoke slavery, as if servitude and the violence it entails were merely a law of nature. While animal brutality invalidates the myth of a society of sympathy, it nevertheless frees the discourse from its subordination to such utopia, and allows the text to engage with the native figures of American savagery.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126310216","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":"Racial Fault-lines in “Baseball’s Great Experiment:” Black Perceptions, White Reactions","authors":"H. Fetter","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5462","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines three facets of the breaking of major league baseball’s color line by Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947: the perception of blacks, the response of white players (whether teammates or opponents), and the reaction of baseball fans. By so doing, the paper will illuminate the fault-lines that characterized race relations within both the sport of baseball and the larger society as each was confronted with new challenges to long established policies and practices in the years after the Second World War.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"10 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126587697","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":"Art contemporain ou kitsch ? Les productions de Gregory Crewdson","authors":"Bernard Genton","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5610","url":null,"abstract":"Le point de depart de la presente reflexion est l’exposition presentee au musee Burda de Baden-Baden au cours de l’hiver 2010-2011. Sous le titre trilingue L’inquietante etrangete de reel/Uncanny Realities/Unheimliche Wirklichkeiten on trouvait la, dans cette belle galerie imaginee par Richard Meier, 25 œuvres de Duane Hanson (1925-1996) dont beaucoup sont connues, face a 20 tirages de Gregory Crewdson (ne en 1962), sans que le rapport entre les deux artistes soit evident. Des sculptures a e...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":" 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132158372","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":"Hollywood adaptations of comic books in a post-9/11 context: the economic and cultural factors","authors":"N. Dupont","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.5419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.5419","url":null,"abstract":"Depuis la sortie de Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) puis celle de Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977), l’industrie hollywoodienne s’est surtout concentree sur la production de blockbusters essentiellement destines a un jeune public. L’article va d’abord montrer qu’adapter a l’ecran les aventures de super-heros americains est une formule tres interessante pour Hollywood car ces aventures semblent faites pour devenir des blockbusters. L’article va ensuite montrer que ces adaptations rencontrent egalement un certain succes car le contexte s’y prete ; les super-heros, tels qu’ils sont presentes, interessent en effet les spectateurs dans un contexte post-11 septembre que l’on ne peut ignorer.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133214164","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":"Clément Oudart, Les Métamorphoses du modernisme, de H.D. à Robert Duncan, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010","authors":"Claudia Desblaches","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5294","url":null,"abstract":"Fort d’une belle ecriture claire et dense, l’ouvrage de Clement Oudart tente de determiner si « la poesie d’apres-guerre (post-war) est necessairement post-poundienne, et post-moderniste » (14). Ce travail de 280 pages rend compte d’echanges epistolaires entre quelques poetes de cette periode (notamment entre Robert Duncan et Donald Allen au moment ou le critique tentait de mettre sur pied une anthologie de poetes nouveaux). L’etude fait part de l’impossible delimitation chronologique ou defi...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123664035","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":"Symposium “Visual Studies / Études visuelles: un champ en question”","authors":"Camille Rouquet","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5431","url":null,"abstract":"Organised by Francois Brunet (UPD/LARCA), Catherine Bernard (UPD/LARCA), Marc Vernet (UPD/CERILAC) and Andre Gunthert (EHESS/LHIVIC), this three-day conference was dedicated to the following issues: the archaeology of visual studies in the Anglophone world, the translatability of visual studies into the French and European fields, and the relationship of visual studies to history and its methods. This symposium was an opportunity to try and assess the position of visual studies in France, whe...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133344506","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":"Ballot initiatives and the national debate on immigration","authors":"M. Menéndez","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5260","url":null,"abstract":"Proposition 187 voted by Californians in 1994 was the first in a long series of ballot initiatives proposed by other states limiting access to welfare programs and education to illegal immigrants. Local initiatives and referendums on sensitive political issues, such as illegal immigration, their economic consequences in states and on the disengagement of the federal government have influenced the shaping of future federal legislation and policy formulation. As of 1996 new laws related to immigration and access to welfare benefits followed the main guidelines of Proposition 187; since the 9-11 attacks national security has become the main axis of immigration laws. Recent ballot initiatives have reinforced the perception of the immigrant as a national and cultural danger as Arizona’s Proposition 103 and the English Only Movement did in 2006.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127303769","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 Gastrodynamics of Edna Pontellier’s liberation.","authors":"Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.5307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.5307","url":null,"abstract":"In The Awakening Kate Chopin uses foodways to define and transgress the social and cultural boundaries of acceptable female behavior as well as to reinscribe woman’s identity through the culinary dimension of her heroine’s life. The novelist uses eating and dining scenes as metaphors for Edna Pontellier’s search for her female selfhood and, in a broader perspective, as symbols of the major issue of her own fiction—gender trouble in the South. In this article I will analyze how various dining experiences become metaphors for Edna’s disintegrating marriage; how the liberating exposure to Creole culture and Cajuns’ interstitial social position allows Edna to assert her agency through culinary practices; and, in general, how her journey to self-knowledge and subjectivity within a marriage that has diminished her to non-personhood is framed through foodways.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123498634","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":"Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, De l’esclave au Président. Discours sur les familles noires aux États-Unis, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2010","authors":"G. Marche","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.5377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5377","url":null,"abstract":"Preface par le sociologue Loic Wacquant, l’ouvrage d’Helene Le Dantec-Lowry propose une etude historiographique approfondie analysant les regards portes sur les familles noires aux Etats-Unis des debuts de l’esclavage jusqu’a aujourd’hui. Le sujet embrasse est encore plus complexe qu’il n’y parait, puisqu’il ne s’agit pas simplement de derouler le recit lineaire de l’evolution d’un ensemble de representations historiquement determinees. Helene Le Dantec-Lowry met ses lecteurs en presence d’un...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115445699","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}