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This collection offers a follow up to the first collection of essays Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les Avatars des récits d’esclaves (2005), whose purpose was to bring together African-merican and Caribbean neo-slave novels. In 2007, the year of the bicentennial...
Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8,1937 in Glen Cove. Long Island, New York. He started his writing career in his high school days, published his early stories in a series of magazines, came to fame in 1963 with his first novel, V., and has since been consistently praised...
“Outside. Outside of society. That’s where I want to be. If you’re looking, that’s where you’ll find me.” This is what Patti Smith sang back in 1978. Where is she in 2015? With all the fame and recognition. With thirteen original albums released, her poetry regularly...
Over the last few decades, in the wake of the ‘Ethical Turn’, contemporary literature has been examined through the prism of the ethics of alterity. Yet, this may not be consistently the case with Victorian and Modernist literature, since relatively few of the authors...
What are the origins and nature of terror and terrorism in the United States and beyond? This book of essays about the history and contemporary reality of terror reveals little-known aspects of a compelling subject. Since the American and French Revolutions, governments...
Through its take on ‘the humble’, this volume attempts to reveal the depth and philosophical relevance of literature, its ethical and political dimension as well as its connection to life. Because it can be associated with social class, religion, psychology or ethics,...
Continuing the series on Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’, this second volume extends existing scholarship by exploring a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on the diasporic condition. Embodiment, memory and intimacy form three core themes through which...
This volume examines the evolution of the concept of diaspora since the advent of Diaspora Studies in the 90s, specifically vis-à-vis other concepts: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, creolization. The essays depict the discontinuities of diasporic experience, but also...
Reflecting current debates in the intersecting fields of African American Studies and African Diaspora, these critical essays and case studies explore the articulation between the fluctuating concepts of ‘race’ and Diaspora and the negotiations of identities across...
This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across...
This collection of critical essays anchors itself in the Indian Ocean and explores the multiple ways dynamic exchanges have shaped this multilingual region of the world, from India to the Mascarene Islands to Southern Africa. Borders, edges and third spaces are...
Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind and Humanist focuses on the most commercialy successful American director of his generation, from his early career at Universal Television to the Oscar-winning Lincoln (2013). The fourteen chapters deal as much with his major hits...
French Guyane, Guyana and Suriname are not often focused on. SometimesFrench Guyane is believed to be an island, and one often wonders where Guyana is situated, or Suriname. This collection of essays aims to increase the visibility of the Guyanas and more particularly...
L’ouvrage s’intéresse aux modalités de la fin, envisagée du point de vue des représentations (fin de soi, fin du monde), de la finalité (eschatologie, téléologie), des poétiques (dénouement, suspens, circularité...), de la périodisation (histoire littéraire). Dans un...
Cet ouvrage collectif est le produit des travaux d’une équipe brésilienne et française engagée dans un projet scientifique bilatéral intitulé « Systèmes agroalimentaires et politiques publiques : théories et méthodes pour l’analyse d’expériences nationales et...
Cet ouvrage est né d’une rencontre. D’un côté, l’équipe enseignante d’une école élémentaire située dans un quartier populaire du nord de Paris. À sa tête, une directrice expérimentée qui met en œuvre un projet s’inspirant de pédagogies actives. De l’autre, une équipe de...
Noviembre de 1975, con el funeral de Francisco Franco en el Valle de los Caídos, se abre para España una nueva fase histórica. No obstante, las consignas son estrictas: se prohíbe retransmitir los saludos y las canciones fascistas, y comentar que la construcción del...
Le nom même de Méditerranée délimite un territoire qui, par définition, déborde la réalité maritime première qu’il est censé désigner en ce sens qu’elle n’a cessé de relier et de mettre en contact, au gré des époques, des civilisations et des cultures, des États, des...
Le discours scientifique utilise copieusement les catégories du nationalisme et du colonialisme pour rendre compte des sociétés africaines. Pourtant, il est un mouvement généré par les Africains et les Afrodescendants, à la fois transnational et décolonial, qui permet...
Cet ouvrage propose une approche générale de cet objet médiatique qu’est le commentaire sportif, sur lequel il n’y avait à ce jour que des analyses parcellaires. Traitant du commentaire radiophonique et télévisuel, il propose une vision complète d’un genre discursif...
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