{"title":"Family secrets and social memory in Les aventures de Tintin","authors":"S. Tisseron, Barbara Harshav","doi":"10.2307/3090597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090597","url":null,"abstract":"Remarkably enough, tiny Belgium and the vast United States share the distinction of having produced the two most prolific comic strip schools of the twentieth century. The most famous of the Belgian story lines have to be the Aventures de Tintin et Milou, drawn by Herge over almost half a century and reflecting the crises Europe experienced after 1930, particularly those having to do with racism and anti-Semitism. Herge can, of course, be accused of having shared this particular mindset, but he can also be credited with having had the courage of his convictions: he never tried to appear \"politically correct\" and always expressed his opinions without worrying about their reception. For instance, he used the character of Capitaine Haddock to portray alcoholism as no other cartoonist had dared to do. At the same time, one can also leave aside a moral reading of the work in favor of a consideration of its internal logic. Indeed, since Herge never traveled, he did not depict situations he had actually witnessed abroad, but rather what was said or shown around him. A quick survey of the iconography of the turn of the century does indeed demonstrate that when it came to racism, he faithfully reproduced the xenophobic mood of his time, especially in Tintin au Congo. Unfortunately for him, as it were, most of these documents have sunk into oblivion, while Les aventures de Tintin have remained. From Le lotus bleu on, however, Herge resolved not to be guided only by what he saw and heard around him, but also to refer to reliable documents, to the point where Levi-Strauss could praise the precision and ethnological accuracy of the places and objects presented in these works. What is not so well known is that Herge had the same kind of large file cabinet in his office as the commander of the citadel in L'affaire Tournesol, and that it was filled with photographs clipped from newspapers. Most of these pictures were taken with the","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"102 1","pages":"145-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's Preface: The Federalization of Memory","authors":"Catherine Labio","doi":"10.2307/3090588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Jean-François's Infancy\" in Jean François Lyotard: Time and Judgement","authors":"Christopher I Fynsk","doi":"10.2307/2903242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2903242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"99 1","pages":"44-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2903242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68446906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The object of contempt","authors":"Erika Naginski","doi":"10.2307/3090605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"101 1","pages":"32-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beau geste! (On the readability of terrorism)","authors":"H. G. Lay","doi":"10.2307/3090607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"101 1","pages":"79-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090607","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mothers in Revolution: Political Representations of Maternity in Nineteenth-Century France","authors":"Jean-Marie Roulin","doi":"10.2307/3090613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"101 1","pages":"182-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090613","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68738796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revolution at a standstill: Photography and the Paris Commune of 1871","authors":"Jeannene M. Przyblyski","doi":"10.2307/3090606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"101 1","pages":"54-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balzac: Epistemophilia and the Collapse of the Restoration","authors":"Peter Brooks","doi":"10.2307/3090609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090609","url":null,"abstract":"Near the end of Balzac's Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes, when Jacques Collin, alias Vautrin, alias Carlos Herrera, passes from chief of the underworld to chief-designate of the police and aids the leaders of society in their effort to suppress evidence and pervert justice in order to prevent a scandal that would throw discredit on some of the Faubourg Saint-Germain's greatest ladies-deeply compromised by their passion for Lucien de Rubempre-the Garde des Sceaux, Comte des Lupeaulx, explains to the Procureur-General, Comte de Granville:","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"101 1","pages":"119-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Fictions: Revolutionary Deconstructions in Diderot","authors":"Richard Terdiman","doi":"10.2307/3090611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3090611","url":null,"abstract":"Diderot died in 1784 and never wrote about the Revolution. Necessarily we see him from the other side of this epochal event. How might we relate to him today? Modernity and postmodernity have regularly been dazzled by Diderot. We have seen our contemporary preoccupations uncannily anticipated in his reflections and representations. Any reader of Jacques le fataliste can recognize just how much the antic textual practices with which Diderot was experimenting in that novel foreshadow familiar postmodernist textual moves. Is this similarity a coincidence? I will claim the contrary. A double relation, of technical inheritance and of shared cultural problematic, links eighteenth-century reflection on \"fiction\" and \"verisimilitude\" to current worries about \"representation,\" \"language,\" and \"textuality.\" My essay seeks to tell a story about the perplexities that occur when culture changes-particularly, about what happens when the changes in question involve a fundamental register through which people make sense of the world. In this case, the register in question is the functioning of representation. In our world of virtuality today, the capacity to deal with fictions seems intrinsic and indispensable to experience. But this was not always so. \"Fiction\" was once a problematic and controversial attainment. During that period of incipience, writers and readers wrestled","PeriodicalId":45911,"journal":{"name":"YALE FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"101 1","pages":"153-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3090611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68739263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}