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André Brink and the Afrikaner Heritage
2004
This paper shows how André Brink, dissident Afrikaans writer, tried to write against his heritage. The most visible strategy consisted in redefining Afrikanerdom as dissidence and as africanity. The notion of betrayal was systematically reversed so that the Afrikaners who supported the Afrikaner regime were presented as the real traitors. Yet dissidence was not an easy position for Brink and both he and his heroes had ambivalent positions.
Dynamiques actuelles des littératures africaines
2018
International audience; Comment écrire et penser l’Afrique dans le monde ? Comment écrire et penser le monde depuis l’Afrique ? Par la mise à jour du dialogue, dynamique et complexe, entre trois notions de prime abord très différentes – le panafricanisme, le cosmopolitisme et l’afropolitanisme – cet ouvrage interroge la participation des Lettres africaines à la réinvention du monde contemporain. Les écrivains qui se sont engagés dans le mouvement panafricain au cours du XXe siècle ont eu comme cible principale l’impérialisme colonial et le morcellement du continent auquel il a donné lieu. Réaliser l’unité africaine faisait alors écho à l’idéal cosmopolite dès lors qu’il s’agissait de desser…
Of whales and men: Caitríona O’Reilly’s septentrional voyage in “The Sea Cabinet” (2006)
2021
International audience; The title-poem of Caitríona O’Reilly’s second collection – The Sea Cabinet – is a sequence of five ekphrastic pieces paying tribute to the city of Hull’s past as a major whaling port. As she perambulates through the galleries of the Maritime Museum, the Irish poetess is inspired by all the paraphernalia on display: skeletons of various species of whales, whaler’s tools but also journals, logbooks, paintings, illustrations and hundreds of examples of the folk art and mythemes of the whaler. From one poem to the next, O’Reilly depicts the northernness of the Arctic Ocean as eery but bewitching otherness, focusing on illustrations of Captain Graville’s whaling ship ice-…
Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
2023
Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...
Filiations textuelles, nationales et culturelles : les genres littéraires en contexte postcolonial
2018
Introduction
2018
No abstract
Compte-rendu : Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, "De purs hommes"
2019
Compte-rendu publié dans le n°24 de la revue annuelle "Interculturel"; No abstract.
L’inspiration autobiographique comme matrice poétique dans quelques ouvrages d’Alain Mabanckou
2014
International audience; no abstract