{"title":"Look Well Before You Leap: African Americans and the Debate over Emigration to Trinidad in the Urban North 1839-1841","authors":"Ousmane K. Power-Greene","doi":"10.3917/rfea.164.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.164.0071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88986365","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":"Chris Kraus’ Auto-Fictional Strategies of Failure","authors":"A. Rigaud","doi":"10.3917/rfea.163.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.163.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Chris Kraus’ texts show a great fascination with the figure of the artist as loser, which is most famously the case with her 1997 cult novel I Love Dick. This article questions the strategies deployed by the writer to explore the paradoxical logic of the loser – starting with the idea of what, exactly, is meant by losing in a culture in which one rejects the standards that define winning. Kraus promotes the letter/diary as a deliberately minor literary mode, situating her work within an intellectual and artistic tradition that identifies itself with the margins of the literary and art worlds. Here, the artist thinks of herself in terms of rivalry: rivalry with her own ambitions as well as with the artistic institutions she tries to find a place in. By valorizing losing as a mode of authenticity, Chris Kraus brings to the fore a tradition of subversion within a world of various coded rivalries (between men and women, between overt and shameful desire, between artists in the art market, etc.) and in doing so establishes the art of losing as a radical ethical position.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88516672","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":"Leslie Marmon Silko’s Tribal Internationalist Perspectives on World Order in Almanac Of The Dead: Remapping Culture and History Beyond National Borders","authors":"Sophie Croisy","doi":"10.3917/rfea.163.0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.163.0114","url":null,"abstract":"In her novel Almanac of the Dead, indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko implements transcultural strategies to assess the transnationality and transhistoricity of culture and politics in North America. Her project tears down barriers between cultural groups within and beyond the national borders of the U.S. and Mexico, and prophesizes the rise of internationalism as an essential political tool to rightfully question the value and lawfulness of the afore-mentioned nation states which are presented in the novel as the main protagonists in the physical, cultural and economic demise of their cultural communities (both indigenous and non-indigenous).","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83613298","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":"L’archive et le politique : enjeux et perspectives","authors":"C. Delahaye","doi":"10.3917/rfea.162.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.162.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79329951","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":"Gaia Is No Loser: Planetarity Beyond Competition in Ursula Le Guin’s Vaster Than Empires and More Slow","authors":"Pierre-Louis Patoine","doi":"10.3917/rfea.163.0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.163.0084","url":null,"abstract":"Ursula K. Le Guin's 1970 short story Vaster than Empires and More Slow stages a group of scientists exploring a planet covered by a sentient vegetal network. The meeting between this group, steeped in interpersonal conflict, and the planetary sentience invites us to question agonistic visions of social life – visions in which competition appears as a “natural law” pruning the losers and letting the fittest thrive.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82096562","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":"Africans and Immigrants: Haitian Contributions to the African Protestant Movement in Early America","authors":"R. A. Johnson","doi":"10.3917/rfea.164.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.164.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77396876","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":"Du passé colonial au récit national : les sociétés d’histoire au service des États-Unis","authors":"Agnès Delahaye","doi":"10.3917/rfea.162.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.162.0020","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the role of colonial history and colonial archives in the formation of early national history in the United-States, through a comparison between the Massachusetts Historical Society founded in 1791, and the New York Historical Society, created in 1804. While the New York Society struggled financially to build its colonial archive and to publish it, the Boston institution enjoyed the fruits of a private archive, itself a product of the promotional dimension of colonization and of the institutional requirements of permanent settlement. Settlement also shaped the political outlook of its members, who embraced expansion as the engine of the American enterprise of colonization. When history became professionalized in the late 1880s, and historiography began to look back on the past century for a tradition of scientific history serving the common national interest, the archival and analytical practices of the MHS came again to the fore, attesting to the role of political colonial sources in shaping wide historical interpretations of the meaning of American expansion.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73484075","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":"Bursting at the (Generic) Seams: Pregnancy Narratives in the Twentieth-Century American Situation Comedy","authors":"Jessica Thrasher Chenot","doi":"10.3917/rfea.165.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.165.0070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85352808","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":"L’art de l’échec : repères historiques et enjeux critiques","authors":"P. Pellerin","doi":"10.3917/rfea.163.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.163.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85972201","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":"All equal, far reaches, no bounds: Exploring and Redefining the American Space through Gary Snyder’s Wild Ecopoetry","authors":"Pauline Boisgerault","doi":"10.3917/rfea.163.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.163.0098","url":null,"abstract":"Les œuvres de Snyder tentent de recreer un espace mythique et poetique americain grâce a une reconciliation syncretique a premiere vue incompatible. Le melange des references culturelles et l’experience incarnee de l’espace americain permettent a Snyder d’esquisser un portrait de cette « Turtle Island » en nouvelle figuration de l’Anthropocene.L’integration d’une alterite polymorphe, se manifestant a travers des liens poetiques et diachroniques entre diverses dynasties et traditions, permet a Snyder de repousser les limites du mythe americain par excellence, a savoir la Frontiere, et offre alors l’image d’un espace reconfigure, qui ne connait pas de limites et dans lequel tous les etres peuvent etre egaux.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84415088","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}