{"title":"Breaking and Making Rules: An Introduction","authors":"Sophie Patrick, A. Viselli","doi":"10.3828/ajfs.2022.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2022.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43369271","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":"Resisting Linguistic Rules in French-Australian Writing","authors":"N. Edwards, C. Hogarth","doi":"10.3828/ajfs.2022.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2022.06","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Recent scholarship has posited the experience of migration as a source of creative, experimental possibilities that allow writers to contest fixed forms of identity; it has also questioned monolingual, monocultural understandings of national literatures that yoke one language to one nation. Building on such work, this article considers French migrant writing that breaks linguistic rules and challenges the norms of national literatures by analyzing various attitudes testifying to multilingualism and linguistic differences in the works of Paul Wenz, Didier Coste and Catherine Rey—authors who had embarked upon their writing careers before migrating, who have settled in Australia and who write from a position of stability and permanence. While travel writers use English to nuance their texts about journeys through Anglophone regions, they ultimately do not displace the primary importance of French in their texts. By contrast, the texts of the writers considered herein articulate both unique understandings of linguistic identity and resistance to linguistic fixity as well as innovative narrative strategies to communicate both.","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43590892","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":"Australian Journal of French Studies: Volume 58, Issue 2","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/ajfs.2021.58.issue-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2021.58.issue-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42266134","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":"Métropolitain.e: Language in Compressed Spaces","authors":"Anna-Louise Milne","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.16","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A few years ago, I described myself finding a livelier sense of self by looking up at the windows of the metro as it clattered past the iron wings above me. A corner of city, I wrote, which I had explored so frequently that my unceasing movement within it founded me more than the State-led rationalities that were reshaping the landscape around me. The blinking eyes of the metro cast a gaze that made me feel particularly me amid the ruination of the textures of life that were being smoothed out and boxed in, all the while this city, to which I had repeatedly returned, underwent a massive phase of renovation. What of me was I tied to in that shuddering moment, and what of the city? How did my own turn to translingual poetics relate to my readings in “metro” and mass transportation aesthetics, and where do I find myself now, writing in the constrained distances and proximities of Paris in 2020, when movement to and from—and in and around—the city and the continent more broadly has become all the more difficult for many, and nigh impossible for those living without papers.","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41388035","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":"Book Review","authors":"Susan Harrow","doi":"10.3828/ajfs.2021.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2021.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48592994","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":"Aux frontières du réel : littérature et réalité au xxie siècle","authors":"S. Lemerle, Dominic Glynn","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45340703","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":"Entre romans du terroir et littérature blanche : vers une littérature de territoires ?","authors":"Morgan Leho","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.13","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines the work of four writers, three men and one woman, to outline the characteristics of a literary trend tentatively labelled littérature de territoires, or “territorial literature”. It then analyzes the authors’ social attributes before discussing the limitations of such an attempt to define a new genre. To achieve its goals, this study limits its consideration to a single novel per author: L’Été circulaire (Circular Summer) by Marion Brunet, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (The End of Eddy) by Édouard Louis, Leurs enfants après eux (And their children after them) by Nicolas Mathieu and Rural noir by Benoit Minville. Interviews with the authors and their respective editors supplement the literary analyses proposed herein.","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":"21 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41316274","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 Work of Editing, its Context and Transformations: Denis Roche’s Fiction & Cie Collection (1974-2004)","authors":"H. Serry","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Drawing on source material from archives and press articles, this article presents the conditions in which the Fiction & Cie collection, published by Éditions du Seuil, was founded by Denis Roche in 1974 and how it subsequently evolved. Imagined by an avant-garde writer, this collection offered a new editorial model that ultimately brought about a reconfiguration of the power dynamics within Le Seuil. It illustrates how, at the end of the 1970s, as Marxist or structuralist theoretical-political debates subsided, space opened up for other approaches to editing and aesthetics. Through the prism of Roche’s editorial practice, the relationship between different forms of aesthetic discourse and editorial logic over a period of three decades is examined.\u0000Translated by Daniel Henkel","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46896534","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":"Réalismes déclinistes du polar français contemporain : Nicolas Mathieu, Colin Niel, Antonin Varenne","authors":"Alice Jacquelin","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.12","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The detective novel has long been described as a form of “authentic” realistic literature (Collovald et Neveu). However, this article analyzes how three contemporary French crime novels—Aux animaux la guerre by Nicolas Mathieu (2014), Seules les bêtes by Colin Niel (2017) and Battues by Antonin Varenne (2015)—challenge and reappropriate conventions of realism. The three country noir novels follow in the lineage of two important traditions of realism, nineteenth-century French classical realism (Dubois) and the social realism of the 1970s and 1980s “néo-polar” (Desnain). Yet rather than anchoring the novels in familiar territory, the authors blur topographical references, create a polyphonic narrative structure and set a horrific tone to provide symbolic and political commentary. The novels thus borrow from magic realism to depict a declining rural and working-class world.","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70344282","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":"“Cherchez la fiction”: Stories of Self-Realization in Anne Garréta’s Pas un jour and Leïla Slimani’s Sexe et mensonges","authors":"Joanne Brueton","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Faced with the hermetic interiority of post-structuralist narratives, twenty-first-century French literature tends to turn outwards and explore sociohistorical realities as a fertile source of fiction. In this article, I compare two contemporary writers rarely paired together—Anne Garréta and Leïla Slimani—to consider the enduring importance of discursive paradigms in realizing a sense of self. Although Garréta’s mechanised autobiographical aesthetic in Pas un Jour seems to jar with Slimani’s ethnographic journalism in Sexe et mensonges, I argue that both use heuristic narratives to conduct a survey of female desire whose reality is only legible in literature. Intersecting with narrative theories formulated by Barthes, Jameson and Cixous, this article argues that Slimani and Garréta perform their lived sexual experience through a carefully manufactured textual machine that grants them freedom. Only through the straitjacket of a fictional system can the reader glean the reality of female subjectivities so long obscured by myth.","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48003326","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}