{"title":"Déconstruction du droit et à-venir de la justice dans « Benito Cereno » de Herman Melville : à propos de la déposition d’Amasa Delano","authors":"Caroline Hildebrandt","doi":"10.3917/rfea.176.0052","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Taking into account the inclusion of a legal deposition in a fictional text—namely in the short story “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville—this article explores the link between these two regimes of writing. Using the concepts Jacques Derrida articulates in his text “Force of Law”, the article analyzes how Melville’s poetics deconstructs legal authority and fiction itself, but also how the text deconstructs law, in the name of justice. The latter is to be found in the “à-venir” of the text, foreshadowed by the dissemination of strategies of silence. These stand out as forms of political resistance which we will attempt to delineate in relation to the philosophy of Jacques Rancière.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.176.0052","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Taking into account the inclusion of a legal deposition in a fictional text—namely in the short story “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville—this article explores the link between these two regimes of writing. Using the concepts Jacques Derrida articulates in his text “Force of Law”, the article analyzes how Melville’s poetics deconstructs legal authority and fiction itself, but also how the text deconstructs law, in the name of justice. The latter is to be found in the “à-venir” of the text, foreshadowed by the dissemination of strategies of silence. These stand out as forms of political resistance which we will attempt to delineate in relation to the philosophy of Jacques Rancière.
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La Revue Française d"Études Américaine, fondée en 1976, analyse un large éventail de questions relevant des études nord-américaines, dans le champ des lettres, des arts, des sciences sociales et humaines. La RFEA offre un lieu de débat sur la recherche en études nord-américaines ; son comité de rédaction indépendant sélectionne des articles inédits de caractère scientifique qui relèvent d"une approche disciplinaire ou transdisciplinaire et présentent les résultats d"une recherche théorique, empirique, ou d"une réflexion critique.