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Le récit d’esclave africain-américain : réflexions sur une appellation générique
2015
What do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American slave narratives have been a staple of American literary studies over the past decades. The narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and other ex-slaves have been recovered, anthologized and discussed by eminent critics such as Marion Wilson Starling, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Frances Smith Foster and William L. Andrews. For all its ubiquity, however, the generic label 'slave narrative' has been used in many different ways by specialists of African American literature. In this essay I argue that the systematic and sometimes uncritical use of the label has led to generalizations that limit our understanding of…
« Héritage de l’Indépendance et identité américaine dans Independence Day de Richard Ford : de l’historique au banal, de l’indépendance à la fragment…
2021
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Lieux familiers et identité : l’exemple du Club des Américaines de Paris
2021
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Exposer l’Amérique. Sim Copans à la Radio Française (1946 – 1954)
2021
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Friday Black et Intruders : lecture croisée au prisme de l'afrofuturisme
2022
This article contrasts “The Finkelstein 5” and “Zimmer Land”, from Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah’s short story collection Friday Black (2018) with the “Untitled” series from Mohale Mashigo’s Intruders (2018), using Mark Dery’s definition of Afrofuturism as a reading grid and a starting point. While both collections draw on the codes of science fiction and dystopia to portray racialized characters in futuristic settings to examine their relation to technology and their place in fictional ‘future’ societies, they take on different approaches. The article concludes that Adjei-Brenyah’s writing, in Friday Black, leans towards what could be termed ‘Afropresentism’ based on François Hartog’s definitio…
Georges Davy et les Américains, ou le troisième âge du durkheimisme (1945-1955)
2016
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