{"title":"“How ‘ya gonna keep’em down at the farm now that they’ve seen Paree?”: France in Super Hero Comics","authors":"Nicolas Labarre","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.4943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.4943","url":null,"abstract":"Any extensive reading of super hero comics will reveal that the representation of France within the genre borrows mostly from touristic cliches, using the country as a foreign, exotic yet not too disorientating setting. Narrative economy and gradual refinements have led to the creation of a codified, consensual and unrealistic depiction of France, centered mostly on Paris and the Eiffel Tower. However, this efficient codification is not value-free. A study of Justice League Europe, a rare example of super-hero series set in France over a long period reveals that France is consistently depicted as a place of history, while being denied a contemporary significance. The country appears as a fascinating but subordinate neighbor, and this evaluation can in turn be found, albeit in a more elliptic way, in numerous series portraying France only in short episodes. The self-consciousness of modern super hero comics, however, suggests that the notion of representation should be handled with care. The depiction of France in super-hero comics originates in part in the perception of the country in the United States, but it also derives in a significant way from the internal evolutions of the genre.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132013549","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":"Memory in Comics: Testimonial, Autobiographical and Historical Space in MAUS","authors":"A. Merino","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.4941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.4941","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction In Adult Comics: An Introduction Roger Sabin explained how between 1986 and 1987 the term ‘graphic novel’ became recognized mostly as a result of the success of Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, and Art Spiegelman’s MAUS. This type of comic signified a revolutionary evolution towards an elaborate adult perspective. From the lesser and ephemeral space of the children’s comic, there was a shift towards the graphic novels for adul...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133411630","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":"T.R. Reid, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, New York, The Penguin Press, 2009, 277p","authors":"Éveline Thévenard","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4765","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. Interstate Highway System was inspired by Germany’s. Sushi and pizza have become some of America’s favorite foods. So why not borrow from foreign models to reform the most expensive and inequitable health care system in the developed world? U.S. researchers’ interest in cross-national comparative studies has increased in recent years, and scholarly journals such as Health Affairs and the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law regularly devote space to analyses of health care fin...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131276275","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":"Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk","authors":"A. Jaffe","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.4632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.4632","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article interprete Gain, sixieme roman de Richard Powers, a la lumiere du concept de « seconde modernite » propose par le sociologue allemand Ulrich Beck. Ce concept souligne la dissemination du risque et la maniere dont celle-ci invalide les marches conclus par la « premiere modernite » entre l’avenir et le present, entre l’interieur du corps et l’exterieur. Cet article entend montrer que Beck fournit un cadre interpretatif utile a la comprehension de ces rapports, hors des impasses categorielles que suscite l’opposition entre les deux regimes narratifs a l’œuvre dans le texte : le recit biographique, local et individuel, de la maladie de Laura Rowen Bodey, et l’histoire collective de l’entreprise Clare devenue conglomerat.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126648227","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":"Enlightenment and Identity : Franklin, Work, and Play","authors":"M. Zuckerman","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.4440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.4440","url":null,"abstract":"Les Europeens virent immediatement en l'Amerique le lieu de tous les possibles et nul mieux que Benjamin Franklin ne prouva que ces reves democratiques pouvaient devenir une realite, des biographes recents voyant en lui le premier Americain. Cependant Franklin eut de nombreuses identites et revetit de nombreux masques, pour plaire a ses publics et s'elever dans le monde. Derriere ces apparences, pourtant, il n'y a d'autre profondeur en Franklin que son genie theâtral et sa constante reinvention de lui-meme.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"222 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120864972","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":"Ben Franklin, America’s Postage Stamp Star — on the Wane?","authors":"F. Brunet","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4402","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an assessment of Ben Franklin’s evolving figure in U.S. postage stamps, focusing especially on the contrast between the 2006 tercentennial Franklin 4-stamp panel, a rather high-brow representation of Franklin as an intellectual, and his traditional image as a homely, common face. The singular history of U.S. postage stamps, with their innovative choice of historical figures as subject matter and their broader emphasis on commemoration, is briefly summarized. The evolution of the Franklin figure — the most common postal image, along with George Washington — is then detailed, showing how the traditional image prevailed until the 1950s, before being progressively displaced by a more cultural and, lately, intellectual image of the nation’s “electrizer”.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114457458","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":"Electricity and Static: Franklin and his British compatriots","authors":"Robert Mankin","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4654","url":null,"abstract":"Les decouvertes en electricite de Benjamin Franklin ont mobilise des chercheurs depuis des decennies. Cet essai ne traite pas de ces decouvertes au sens strict, mais etudie le contexte dans lequel Franklin a presente certains de ses travaux scientifiques et politiques en 1751, ainsi que leur reception en Grande-Bretagne. L’essai suggere que Franklin ne fut ni l’enfant des Lumieres britanniques ou europeennes, ni un de leurs jouets. Bien que celebre tres generalement par son siecle, Franklin demeurait comme une force etrangere a laquelle les Lumieres britanniques devaient faire face, tant sur le plan intellectuel que politique. Peut-etre que cette situation explique pourquoi il fut un adversaire si redoutable pour l’Etat britannique.","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126710540","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":"Binding Nations through Art Quilts and a Visit to the U.S. Embassy in Paris as a Cultural Envoy","authors":"Riché Richardson","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.4321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.4321","url":null,"abstract":"In the spring of 2008 when Geraldine Chouard, who was helping to coordinate the landmark exhibition in France entitled “Un Patchwork de Cultures,” mentioned the U.S. Embassy in Paris’s interest in inviting me to the city to share some of my quilts as a part of this exhibition and to be a “Cultural Envoy,” I was honored and excited by the possibility. The opportunity to return to Paris under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy, which officially materialized through a grant from the U.S. Departmen...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131298091","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":"African American and Caribbean Literatures in Belgium. So Close, Yet So Far Apart","authors":"Bénédicte Ledent","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.4273","url":null,"abstract":"It has not been easy to collect information on African American research conducted in Belgium since the 1960s. In our country there has not been an undertaking of a size and scope comparable to what Michel and Genevieve Fabre have achieved in France, perhaps because Belgium is divided linguistically, with two communities, one Dutch-speaking, the other French-speaking, each with separate funding bodies, a situation that does not make national research projects easy to implement. This being sai...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129183457","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}