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Reflexivity and Self-Presentation in Multicultural Encounters: Making Sense of Self and Other
2014
International audience; This chapter highlights ways in which reflexivity, as a process involved in multimodal communication, shapes our multicultural encounters. Following the symbolic interactionists, reflexivity is presented here as a basic process in all interpersonal communication, structuring everyday interactions on the level of intersubjectivity. The chapter will discuss the way participants may (consciously or unconsciously) develop self-presentation strategies (Goffman), including identity strategies (Camilleri), or adopt strategic “orientations” to their relationships with Others, along with the underlying questions of agency and intentionality and the types and limits of (consci…
Illustrating Identity/ies
2021
International audience; Ce volume examine les relations et les influences entre l'illustration et l’identité dans leurs formes et leurs significations multiples. Il interroge, et illustre, à travers une variété d’approches théoriques, d’études de cas, de projets professionnels et d’expériences personnelles, les moyens individuels, interculturels et interdisciplinaires par lesquels l’illustration contribue aujourd’hui et a contribué au fil du temps à la formation de l’identité ou des identités. Il fournit la preuve que l’illustration participe à l’expression, et même à la construction de l’identité ou des identités individuelles et collectives, que celles-ci soient culturelles, sociales, eth…
Identité composite et métissage dans « Letter to Friends » de Leontia Flynn
2015
In “Letter to Friends” (Profit and Loss, 2011), a long epistolary poem inspired by Letters from Iceland (1937) by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Leontia Flynn paints an introspective and retrospective self-portrait in which she examines all the elements that have formed her existence until her recent maternity. The identity that emerges from this intimate inventory is plural, “mixed” or “multi-breed” (Édouard Glissant), the cultural mix resulting not only from history, globalization and travel but also from temporal, linguistic and psychological shifts or ruptures.Flynn’s lyrical and polyphonic (if not cacophonous) piece, bursting with asides, debating a multitude of subjects in an infinit…
Superhéros et identités nationales : de l'adhésion à la subversion
2021
The aim of this lecture was first to explore the issues around the figure of the superhero – its origins, definition, and its status in academia – and to expose the relation between the representation of superheroes and American national identities. The lecture then consisted in a diachronic analysis of emblematic superheroes (in novels, comics, and movies) in relation to the major conflicts involving the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, conflicts which redefined American identities (the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam war, and the ‘war on terror’). The following works were mentioned: A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912 ; Captain America Comics …
Irish Self-Portraits: The Artist in Curved Mirrors
2018
International audience; Though Ireland can pride itself on its national self-portrait collection, housed at the University of Limerick, very little research has been done on self-portrayal in Irish literature and visual arts. This absence of scientific investigation is all the more surprising as, as Marie Bourke observes, “self-portrayal is a complex act. The private nature of the task, and the intensity of self-scrutiny that it entails, has challenged artists through the ages. It’s not just a question of self-examination, but a process recording a likeness, the depiction of a psychological state, or social status, or the representation of abstract ideas” (Marie Bourke, Exploring Art at the…
The Double-Bind in King Lear
2009
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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.
Virility, masculine identity and disability
2017
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Postmodernity: clinical and social reflections about new forms of psychopathology
2016
International audience; This article proposes a reflection on the impact that some postmodern features can have on the sense of identity and on mental functioning to propose possible explanations for identity changes and new forms of psychopathology. After revisiting the most recent literature on the theme, this study proposes a clinical consideration for a possible link between new forms of psychopathology and mental suffering. It particularly suggests that the changes observed in affectivity (including increase in dysphoria, irritability, restlessness, boredom, feeling of emptiness) and behaviour (reduction in impulse control ability, in interpersonal skills and reflective function, etc.)…
Entanglement between self-doubt and self-certainty in identity dynamics: From the mundane to the surprising
2018
Thème du congrès : « Surprise in and around Organizations: Journeys to the Unexpected », sub-thème 19; International audience