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{"title":"The Writer as Witness and Social Critic: Charlotte Delbo on October 17, 1961, and May ’68","authors":"Kathryn M Lachman","doi":"10.1353/esp.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"CHARLOTTE DELBO (1913–1985) is best known for her searing accounts of Auschwitz and deportation, but she also produced a rich and varied corpus of plays, poems, and essays denouncing oppression in France and beyond. This article examines two highly original yet little known works in which Delbo lends her voice to protesters in 1960s France: her eye-witness account of the demonstration of Algerians in Paris of October 17, 1961, “La septième année de la guerre d’Algérie” [The Seventh Year of the Algerian War], and her remarkable play about the student and worker movement of May 1968, La théorie et la pratique [Theory and Practice].1 Taken together, these two texts display Delbo’s range as a writer, vibrant political commitment, and determination to engage the diversity of voices in the public sphere. In examining Delbo’s writings on French protest movements of the 1960s, this article necessarily also interrogates the longstanding resistance to Delbo’s work in France, indeed, the degree to which a significant part of her work remains marginalized and neglected.2 “La septième année de la guerre d’Algérie” is still unpublished in Delbo’s archives. Jean-Jacques Vierne’s radio adaptation of La théorie et la pratique was broadcast on French national radio on October 29, 1970,3 but the play has never been staged in theaters. The script was published in 1968 by Éditions Anthropos, the same small Parisian press that brought out Henri Lefebvre’s essay on May ’68, L’irruption de Nanterrre au sommet [The Explosion: Marxism and the French Upheaval],4 and has been reprinted in a collected edition of nine plays by Delbo, Qui rapportera ces paroles (Paris: Fayard, 2013); nonetheless, it has yet to receive the critical attention it merits.5 This article seeks to counter this erasure by bringing the breadth of Delbo’s work into fuller view. It also takes up a question raised by Michael Rothberg as to the fascinating and under-acknowledged intellectual rapport between Delbo and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, whom she makes into a major protagonist in La théorie et la pratique. As documented by Lefebvre’s biog-","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"63 1","pages":"35 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48358708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"« Par le verbe autant que par le feu » : L’émeute comme moment de vérité dans les livres du Comité invisible","authors":"Aurélie Adler","doi":"10.1353/esp.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Prophétisée, glosée, narrée à la manière d’une épopée collective, l’émeute occupe une place centrale dans les essais du Comité invisible. Porteur d’une mémoire de la révolution, le motif insurrectionnel est revitalisé par le collectif post-situationniste, qui célèbre, partout où elles ont lieu dans le monde, les manifestations de refus d’une société gouvernée par des logiques marchandes et spectaculaires. Alternant les postures d’herméneute ou d’incitateur, le Comité invisible considère l’émeute comme un élément fondateur de la grammaire politique de l’époque en tant qu’elle est un “moment de vérité” où se réalise l’idéal de destitution de toute autorité. Cependant, cette destitution ne va pas sans ambiguïté dans la mesure où elle semble ne pouvoir s’énoncer que dans les termes d’une communauté d’élus. Entre dissolution dans la foule anonyme et partage d’une vision entre “amis” clairvoyants, l’émeute est l’objet de redéfinitions mouvantes d’un livre à l’autre, ce qui témoigne des tensions qui animent, d’un volume à l’autre, le collectif anonyme mais aussi de ses stratégies de diffusion d’un imaginaire viral de l’émeute.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"63 1","pages":"63 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49162353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pre-Linnaean Plant Sexualities in England and France, c. 1670–1720","authors":"J. Begley","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article explores some of the analogies that botanists in England and France developed between c. 1670-1720 to demonstrate that plants reproduce sexually. By delving into the contributions of several understudied figures, I seek to show that plant sexuality was neither the grand discovery of Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, as scholars have often supposed, nor a monolithic stance that provided an obvious taxonomical foundation. While Carl Linnaeus ordered plants according to their marital status, earlier botanists mostly analogized plants to \"lower\" animals, and, accordingly, even the most flamboyant among them avoided the charges of irreligion that beset Linnaeus.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"40 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42513714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants by Stella Sandford (review)","authors":"Joela Jacobs","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"176 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48269131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beckett and Buddhism by Angela B. Moorjani (review)","authors":"Nadia Louar","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"177 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43482505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flowers into the Breach: Women in the Care of Plants","authors":"Pauline Goul","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0040","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article considers the imagined relationship between women and plants, both in the context of patriarchal societies that fear female sexuality and in that of the feminine usage of plants to manage and improve health, and, more importantly perhaps, to escape a reproductive logic. From François Rabelais' wall of vulvas to an agricultural manual insisting on the curious plant property of inducing periods, these histories intersect with the fantasies of Céline Sciamma's film, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, as so many affordances of a liberating botany.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"11 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46044081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Greenhouse in the Bathhouse: Ecosexuality and the Legacy of Libertine Botany","authors":"N. Seymour","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0050","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article offers a reflection on the legacy of libertine botany from a contemporary perspective, arguing that its impulses and quirks can be found in projects such as Pony Express's \"Ecosexual Bathhouse\" art installation and the artivisim of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. The essay also offers a critique of some of these projects from an asexuality studies perspective, noting that they tend to take plants as avatars of sex positivity – thus occluding their asexual capacities—and that they often conflate categories such as the erotic and the sexual.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"160 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44454408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How (Not) to Love an Anemone: Animal, Vegetal, and Mineral Intimacies in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis","authors":"K. Steenbergh","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0041","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In contemporary Western culture, vegetal life is often objectified as a resource for human needs. The field of critical plant studies stresses the need for alternative imaginaries in which the entanglement of human and plant life comes to the fore. This article explores whether a canonical sixteenth-century English poem could offer such a model. It considers whether Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis (1593) could lure readers into the realm of more-than-human affect – suffering and grief as well as (erotic) pleasure – to shape a sense of openness to, and affective entanglement with, non-human others.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"25 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42593960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Libertine Botany: Plant/Human Intimacies, Early Modern to Modern","authors":"Natania Meeker, Antónia Szabari","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0039","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This introduction explores libertine botany as a set of ideas and practices emerging in early modern France and quickly taking on transnational and transcultural dimensions. In a body of work that precedes and anticipates modern queer ecologies, the alien pleasures of plants give new contours to human experience. As this issue shows, the botanical sciences of the early modern period actively structure representations of gender, pleasure, and desire in ways that continue to haunt and delight the present moment.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43559269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Botanical Mirror of the Self in La Mettrie's Man as Plant","authors":"Blanca Missé","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0043","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this article I argue that La Mettrie's natural history is in fact an invitation to reengage with our plant and animal roots from a materialist point of view. Returning to the root also means allowing and performing a series of identifications between Man and Nature, in order to produce a different, non-metaphysical genealogy of the \"I\" or the Self. The botanical analogy here allows for a radical identification with the plant that complicates and destabilizes hierarchical sexual binaries. La Mettrie appears as a metteurenscène and drag performer of the texts and ideas of others.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"56 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46565139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}