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Flora Valadié
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John Edgar Wideman, lecteur-archiviste de Frantz Fanon
2017
This article intends to read Fanon, a Novel, written in 2008 by John Edgar Wideman, as an attempt to decolonize the archive, more specifically the Fanonian archive. Rather than trying to exhume the legacy of the Martiniquan thinker, the novel proposes to set Fanon’s thought in motion, allowing it to unfold before the reader’s eyes. Thus summoned up, the archive assumes an eminently political role. No longer an origin in a teleological narrative, it can only be apprehended by a text that deliberately practices generic blurring and intermingling as a mode of writing. In Fanon, a Novel, the intersection between fiction and the archive serves as a productive space where national and colonial gr…
Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.
2010
Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance, titre d’une photographie qu’August Sander prit en 1914, hante le roman éponyme de Richard Powers. Cette photographie faisait partie d’un projet plus vaste, intitulé « Hommes du vingtième siècle » par Sander qui entendait dresser un inventaire des habitants de sa province natale, le Westerwald. Sander composa ainsi un catalogue de plus de 600 photos d’Allemands de tous types, dont il fit plus tard paraître une partie sous le nom de Visage de notre temps. Dans le roman de Richard Powers, le motif de la série se déploie entre les pôles incarnés par Henry Ford et August Sander, dont les séries de voitures et de photographies deviennent la métaphore du mode…
La langue affrontée : voix intimes des domestiques dans The Cattle Killing de John Edgar Wideman
2017
The Cattle Killing traces the path a young Black itinerant preacher – a former slave reduced to vagrancy in plague-ridden 1793 Philadelphia. During his travels, he encounters Liam and Mrs. Stubbs, a Black man and a white woman, both former servants who have come from England where Liam was indentured to painter George Stubbs while his wife was Stubbs’ maid. They came to America in hope of a better life that would save them from ambiant racism. The preacher also meets Kathryn, a black woman serving the wife of a famous Abolitionnist, a Founding Father and enlightened humanist. Kathryn works as an amanuensis for her blind mistress and writes a diary the latter dictates. Yet the servant surrep…
Arthur Miller, The Crucible, (1953)
2015
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Intimité littéraire et contrainte carcérale dans Brothers and Keepers de John Edgar Wideman
2019
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Failing Private Till: John Edgar Wideman’s Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
2020
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Behind Fanon's Masks: The Ethics of Collage in John Edgar Wideman's Fanon
2015
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‘Pretty White Word in a Black Mouth’ : les couleurs de la langue dans The Cattle Killing de John Edgar Wideman "
2015
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«The Truth of the Historic Encounter»: Literalizing the Metaphor, or Presenting the Unrepresentable in The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2019
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"Race is the Child of Racism": Self-Engendering and Autofiction beyond the Color Line in Fatheralong and Between the World and Me
2019
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« 'A Person should Never Represent Anything that They Aren't Willing to Have Come True ' : la vérité par l'image dans Plowing the Dark de Richard Pow…
2012
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Aux frontières de l'humain: esclavage et monstruosité
2019
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