{"title":"Racial intelligibility and the Search for Happiness: In James Arthur Baldwins Another Country","authors":"Ronnel Berry","doi":"10.3917/rfea.157.0135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.157.0135","url":null,"abstract":"Les personnages multiraciaux dans Another Country voguent a travers la vie, l’amour et l’amitie au-dela du clivage racial a la recherche du bonheur. Paru pendant le mouvement des droits civiques, le roman explore les preoccupations de son auteur concernant l’intelligibilite raciale sur laquelle repose la perception du paysage urbain qu’il construit ainsi que la maniere dont ses personnages comprennent l’Autre racialise. En utilisant les travaux de Judith Butler sur l’intelligibilite du genre remis dans le contexte de la politique raciale, cet article montre comment les personnages de Baldwin essaient de surmonter l’intelligibilite raciale qui entrave leur recherche de l’amour, du bonheur, de l’intelligibilite mutuelle.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86585378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion séculière et spiritualité panenthéiste: La recherche du bonheur au sein des communautés de la Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform","authors":"Auréliane Narvaez","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.157.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.157.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86652812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Se marier pour vivre plus longtemps ? Le suicide des célibataires en perspective transatlantique (1870-1920)","authors":"R. Huret","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.155.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.155.0062","url":null,"abstract":"This paper places unmarried people into the mainstream of American history. It looks at the cultural construct of singlehood as a threat for the future of the American people during the Progressive Era. This fear of singlehood was based upon intellectual exchanges between Europe and the United States, and established a correlation between marital status and suicide. It is no coincidence that advocates of the « race suicide theory » targeted unmarried people, not only in their discourse, but also in the social practices they implemented.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84950030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mental Side of Life in the Pursuit of Happiness: Happiness, Health and Metaphysical Religions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet","doi":"10.3917/rfea.157.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.157.0058","url":null,"abstract":"\"Au tournant du xxe siecle, la Nouvelle Pensee constitue un courant religieux nebuleux fonde sur la croyance en la guerison mentale tandis que la Science chretienne s’organise en theologie pronant la guerison par la foi. Cet article analyse comment ces spiritualites alternatives repandues dans les milieux reformateurs de la classe moyenne, notamment a Boston, transforment dans les annees 1890 le « bonheur religieux » (William James) en quete de la sante. L’auteur examine ensuite comment, dans les annees 1910, elles imposent une lecture religieuse de plusieurs controverses medicales et contribuent a l’abandon du projet de creation d’un ministere de la Sante.\"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75722106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tipsy with Water: Emerson’s Poetic Intoxication","authors":"Yves Gardes","doi":"10.3917/rfea.156.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.156.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article propose de mettre en lumiere le paradoxe de l’ivresse poetique dans l’œuvre d’Emerson. Parce qu’il fustige les effets des psychotropes conventionnels sur l’intellect, Emerson deconstruit la representation traditionnelle du poete romantique : l’ivresse ne tiendrait pas le poete dans un etat extatique qui formerait la source de son inspiration. Pourtant, s’il deconsidere les effets des psychotropes traditionnels, Emerson retient le processus d’ebriete comme une condition necessaire a l’epanouissement poetique. La substance qui doit permettre au poete d’acceder a un etat extatique sans voiler sa perception ou alterer ses sens n’est autre que l’eau. L’enjeu de cet article est ainsi de montrer quel etat extatique l’eau peut bien produire sur le poete.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83122353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Prime Minister of the Grisly King of Terrors, Death”: Alcohol in the Nineteenth-Century Reform Imagination","authors":"Scott C. Martin","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.156.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.156.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Tout au long du xixe siecle, l’alcool et l’ebriete qu’il suscite occupent une place de choix dans le catalogue des vices que dressent les reformateurs americains. Ministres du culte, medecins, defenseurs de la temperance et autorites judiciaires considerent l’ivrognerie comme le vice par excellence, comme un piege insidieux qui engendre toutes sortes d’immoralites : crime, violence (en particulier domestique), jeu, prostitution ou encore impiete. L’alcool trompe et devoie les vertueux, les initie au vice et entraine une chute irreversible dans la decheance et la mort. Contrairement a d’autres formes de depravation, l’abus d’alcool non seulement egare ceux qui ne se doutent de rien, mais empeche leur conversion, dejouant l’influence benefique du droit, de la moralite, de la religion et de l’affection familiale. Les reformateurs convoquent des preuves tant sociales que scientifiques : statistiques criminelles, anecdotes de violence conjugale, etudes de cas cliniques et analyses physiologiques. Comprendre l’idee que les reformateurs se font de l’alcool comme pere de tous les vices permet d’eclairer les approches ulterieures de l’usage d’autres stupefiants, tel l’opium, et de l’evolution du concept moderne d’addiction.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81140393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histoire culturelle, études américanistes : une conversation transatlantique","authors":"Laurence Cossu-Beaumont","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.155.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.155.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86251355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verse Scored Free: Scansion, Recording, Notation","authors":"David Nowell Smith","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.153.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.153.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Cet essai retrace les tentatives faites par les prosodistes pour noter (score) le rythme de la poesie, notamment a l’aide de systemes de notations empruntes a l’harmonie diatonique. La notation articule deux impulsions contradictoires : l’enregistrement d’une voix posee comme preexistante, et la generation de mise en voix ulterieures. En outre, elle introduit un ensemble de disjonctions entre le corps des voix qui sont notees ou qui interpretent la notation, et le corps de la marque en tant que signe visuel, tout en pointant vers leur reconciliation. L’appel a la musique devient un moyen de reguler ces tensions en meme temps qu’il tente d’evacuer les exces rythmiques auxquels la scansion traditionnelle n’a jamais ete capable de rendre justice.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74637274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poem as Score and the Genealogy of Sonopoetic Notation","authors":"Steve Mccaffery, A. Lang","doi":"10.3917/rfea.153.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.153.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Partant du « poeme comme partition » tel qu’il a ete preconise par Charles Olson dans « Projective Verse » (1950), cet entretien propose une genealogie du poeme sonore au vingtieme siecle qui inclut des systemes de notation concus sur des principes organiques et mimologiques.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75792837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilisations politiques des groupes ethno-raciaux dans l’Amérique d’Obama","authors":"Y. L. Moigne, Julien Zarifian","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.152.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.152.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Pour citer cet article : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yohann Le Moigne, Julien Zarifian« Mobilisations politiques des groupes ethnoraciaux dans l’Amérique d’Obama », Revue française d’études américaines 2017/3 (N° 152), p. 3-17. DOI 10.3917/rfea.152.0003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72743249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}