Search results for "Afrique du Sud"
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Willem Boshoff, artist's monograph and catalogue
2013
Willem Boshoff’s work articulates around a pivotal date, April 1994, the first democratic elections in South Africa. He may choose to work gigantic rocks of granite or establish vast installations of accumulated material. The artist claims that his work is based on language, often taking the form of Dictionaries. While reviewing the main questions by artists of the twentieth century, texts or artworks from Europe are systematically tested against their South African counterpart. Boshoff’s attitude is determined by a melancholic questioning of his role as a creator linked to a political situation and cultural milieu. He discovers more dynamic ways of presenting gestures when his artistic act…
South (2016) et North (2018) de Frank Owen : diptyque post-apocalyptique américain ou sud-africain ?
2020
National audience; La présente communication se propose d'examiner les représentations d'un avenir post-apocalyptique dans le diptyque South (2016) et North (2018) de Frank Owen et de s'interroger sur une possible hybridation des imaginaires post-apocalyptiques. Bien qu'écrits par un duo d'auteurs sud-africains (Frank Owen étant en réalité le pseudonyme adopté par Diane Awerbuck et Alex Latimer pour écrire ces romans à quatre mains), South et North se déroulent tous deux aux Etats-Unis. Dans le monde post-apocalyptique dépeint dans le diptyque, le pays est divisé en deux et des vents mortels soufflent sur le sud, décimant la population, qui a dû retourner à un mode de vie primitif où domine…
Le "changement de langue" d’Antjie Krog : "Babel heureuse"?
2010
This article examines the relationship between Afrikaans and English in post-apartheid South Africa though the prism of a specific example, Antjie Krog's Change of Tongue, whose generic and linguistic statuses plays on ambiguity and bilingualism.
Précipitations et relief en Afrique orientale et australe : modélisations statistiques et géostatistiques.
2008
By considering two examples in Eastern and Southern Africa, this work has two aims: a better understanding of the influence of topography on the spatial distribution of rainfall and an optimal interpolation of station rainfall data, taking into account topography. To this end, an original methodology is developped, partly derived from previous studies focusing on extratropical regions.First, a statistical model is defined. With the help of a multi-scalar decomposition of topographical information into descriptors, a multiple linear regression is performed. This model is used to better understand the relationship between rainfall and topography. In Eastern Africa, the spatial distribution of…
Cassia (Rebirth, 2012): une soeur sud-africaine de Carmilla?
2022
Cette communication s'intéresse à une figure de femme vampire dans le comic sud-africain Rebirth et cherche à déterminer en quoi elle se rapproche, mais aussi en quoi elle se différencie, d'autres figures de vampires féminins.
Identité et espace chez André Brink: Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain et Imaginings of Sand
2007
This article explores André Brink's conception of identity in terms of space. Examining three novels which all revolve around a first-person narrator exploring his/her own identity, Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain and Imaginings of Sand, it shows that Brink's conception of identity is both spatial and familial: characters try to become "rooted" in South African soil, but this rooting process is achieved only in the post-apartheid novel, Imaginings of Sand. A brief comparison with Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon tries to shed light on the source of Brink's spatial conception of identity.
Guérir les blessures de l'Afrique du Sud
2009
On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘ new ’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African identity in the last fifteen years that followed the demise of apartheid. The notion of ‘ healing the wounds’ is used both as a pretext and as a focal point to build up as complete a picture as possible of Sout…
Broken Monsters (2014): quand le monstre fait signe
2017
International audience
La littérature sud-africaine pendant et après l'apartheid. Table ronde avec André Brink, Denise Coussy, Jean Guiloineau et Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
2005
Transcript of a round table on South African literature, during and after apartheid, with particular focus on the links between literature and reality.
L'Afrique du Sud, puissance utile
1999
International audience