{"title":"Michael P. Kramer. New Essays on Bellow’s Seize the Day.","authors":"Jean-Yves Pellegrin","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.695","url":null,"abstract":"Les New Essays on Seize the Day reunissent six articles qui, pour la plupart, s’attachent a une question mainte fois soulevee par la critique bellowienne : comment definir et quelle place accorder a la notion de judeite dans les textes de Saul Bellow ? Le propos introductif de Michael P. Kramer a le merite de souligner clairement le caractere fuyant de cette notion et la difficulte d’accoler une quelconque etiquette ethnique a l’œuvre de Bellow en general et a Seize the Day en particulier, co...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129151363","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":"John Lewis Gaddis. Surprise, Security and the American Experience.","authors":"P. Guerlain","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.849","url":null,"abstract":"Ce petit livre est un bel objet, agreable a tenir, bien relie et imprime de la plus belle facon. Il regroupe des conferences tenues par l’auteur a la New York Public Library en 2002. John Lewis Gaddis est professeur a Yale, il est l’un des historiens de la politique etrangere les plus connus et reconnus dans sa discipline aux Etats-Unis. Sa premiere conference s’intitule « A Morning at Yale » et sa conclusion « An Evening at Yale ». Le matin dont il est question dans le chapitre d’introductio...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115244003","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":"Susan M. Reverby ed. Tuskegee’s Truths : Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study","authors":"Elizabeth Chamorand","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.363","url":null,"abstract":"Pour tenter de comprendre l’etude menee de 1932 a 1972 par le Public Health Service (PHS) sur des ouvriers agricoles noirs de l’Alabama, Susan M. Reverby a rassemble des documents de premiere main (dont des extraits de la correspondance et des rapports de medecins du PHS), et des articles de medecins et specialistes en sciences humaines dont les points de vue differents et parfois contradictoires eclairent l’information fournie par les documents. Tuskegee’s Truths rappelle le contexte de denu...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116961366","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":"Ira B. Nadel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound.","authors":"Axel Nesme","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.345","url":null,"abstract":"Il s’agit ici, dans l’espace de 300 pages fort denses, de proposer au public une introduction a l’œuvre poundienne dans une perspective aussi bien litteraire, esthetique, philologique que politique et ideologique. L’ouvrage ne visant pas a esquisser un panorama des lectures critiques possibles, aucune orientation theorique n’est privilegiee. L’article de G. Bornstein examine l’interaction entre Pound et Yeats, H.D., T.S. Eliot et James Joyce de 1908 a 1925, placee sous le signe de la cooperat...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124499819","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":"Lee Kovacs, The Haunted Screen : Ghosts in Literature and Film.","authors":"A. Luyat","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.341","url":null,"abstract":"Entre le fantome litteraire et sa representation cinematographique, au cœur des espaces tres differents hantes par l’un et par l’autre, Lee Kovacs nous donne rendez‑vous. Une analyse minutieuse des transformations qui ont lieu des que le fantome quitte les pages du livre pour passer a l’ecran est au cœur de l’essai, qui revele la faiblesse des spectres contemporains par rapport a ceux d’antan. Au depart, le lecteur a le plaisir de retrouver une vieille connaissance, le lemure de Cathy qui han...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133894366","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":"Italian Americans and the New Deal Coalition","authors":"S. Luconi","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.212","url":null,"abstract":"With an estimated eligible electorate of nearly four million potential voters nationwide in the prewar decade, Italian Americans were a key component of the coalition of ethnic groups that elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White House in 1932 and contributed to the creation of the Democratic majority that dominated U. S. politics, at least in presidential contests, for roughly two decades (Mott ; Jensen). Conventional scholarly wisdom usually has it that most Italian Americans shifted thei...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122629064","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":"Bernard Vincent. The Transatlantic Republican, Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions.","authors":"Caroline Belan","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.602","url":null,"abstract":"« That Thomas Paine was a pioneer, a prophet, a visionary is something that cannot reasonably be denied » [137]. It is true that one of Bernard Vincent’s greatest achievements in The Transatlantic Republican, Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions, is to manage to convince the reader of the exceptional character and influence of Thomas Paine not merely through the American Revolution process but also throughout a whole period of dramatic changes and conflicts and during the emergence of new ...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132300358","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":"Sacajawea vs. Charbonneau","authors":"Laura Knowlton – Le Roux","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.300","url":null,"abstract":"The deflation of the Sacajawea myth, a recent trend in scholarship on the Lewis and Clark expedition, has come at a time when its power to inspire American youth has never been greater. But admiration for Sacajawea, while certainly not unmerited, has been based on a portrait distorted by a century of embellishments, exaggerations and endeavors to bestow a nobility of birth and sentiment on her. The Lewis and Clark expedition in its novelistic form amplifies her role, giving her « a prominence...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116377498","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":"Ambivalence and Ambiguity in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman","authors":"Monica Michlin","doi":"10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.1092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/TRANSATLANTICA.1092","url":null,"abstract":"This close reading of the text highlights how Miss Jane, in her double role as protagonist and narrator, shows considerable ambivalence towards friend and foe alike, with the result that the apparently transparent ideological meaning of entire episodes is blurred by what some critics have merely put down to “conservatism.” I examine Miss Jane’s almost constant suppression of emotion, and frequent displays of ambivalence towards other black people; her ambiguous relationship to oppressive, but familiar whites like Albert Cluveau or Robert Samson; and her conflicted relation to black heroes and heroics. Is the leading character a variation on the “mammy” who has internalized racist figures of speech, and uses contradictory images that undermine black heroics and validate white oppression? Or is Gaines’s point to undo the “retrick” of heroics and of alienation alike, and, against of backdrop of constant, ordinary destruction of black lives, to cast the adult Miss Jane as a Brer Rabbit-like figure, for whom survival and resistance are both dialectically connected and opposed? Is there a contradiction between her “progress” towards resistance shown in the last section, and her metadiscursive comments in the present, and does her literally walking out of her own story give a conclusive meaning to her narrative, or does it point to the author’s not having been able to resolve the ambivalence and ambiguities within the text?","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128508672","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":"Paul Downes. Democracy, Revolution and Monarchism in Early American Literature.","authors":"Jean-pierre Martin","doi":"10.4000/transatlantica.813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.813","url":null,"abstract":"L’auteur, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto, part implicitement d’une evidence : pour l’ensemble heterogene des colonies americaines rebelles, le lien a la Couronne est le seul commun denominateur, et le trajet le plus court de Charleston a Boston passe par Londres…D’ou, pour un tiers environ de la population — les Loyalistes— une fidelite a la monarchie poussee parfois jusqu’a l’exil volontaire ; mais pour les Independantistes, nolentes volentes, des reference...","PeriodicalId":422366,"journal":{"name":"Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123711271","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}