Pub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1177/09571558241270430
Gustaf Marcus
This article discusses literary texts and other cultural practices that resemble, refer to, or make use of material from Google Earth. The aim is to elucidate experiences of glocalization (globalization and localization), an emerging form of spatiality that is related to the interactive ‘Web 2.0.’ The initial analysis of the browser game GeoGuessr and the interactive music video ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ explores this spatiality from two opposing starting points: while the game fosters a sense of place within locales that are essentially unknown to the player, the music video integrates images from places that are related to the viewer's personal memories into an otherwise impersonal work of art. This glocalized experience of place, which is both eroded by global systems of communication and recreated within these systems, is then traced in Marie Darrieussecq's novel La mer à l’envers and in several works, including novels, poems, and photographs, by Michel Houellebecq.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1177/09571558241264983
Hicham Belhaj
Cet article examine la représentation de la mort dans sept romans de Mahi Binebine, Le sommeil de l’esclave (1992), Les funérailles du lait (1994), L’ombre du poète (1997), Cannibales, (1999), Pollens (1999), Terre d’ombre brûlée (2004), et Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen (2010). En s’appuyant sur une approche phénoménologique, l'étude se concentre sur les perceptions et les réactions des personnages face à la mort, explorant ainsi les implications philosophiques et existentielles. Le cheminement méthodologique en six étapes guide l'analyse, mettant en lumière la complexité du thème de la mort et sa relation avec la réalité contemporaine du Maroc. L'auteur émerge comme un visionnaire, capturant les nuances de la condition humaine à travers une écriture qui transcende la simple narration, offrant une réflexion profonde sur la vie, la mort et la société marocaine.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1177/09571558241302293
Thi Anh Ngoc VO
French colonization in Vietnam is a totalizing phenomenon, which affected all life, both collective and individual. Many studies are devoted to the memories of this past era with its social contexts and its existential conditions. One of the most visible realities that this phenomenon reveals is that it has destroyed and deconstructed the old frameworks of the culture of colonized people and brought them into uncertain and ambiguous areas of identity. How do these colonized subjects express themselves in such socio-existential contexts? Is seeking to show oneself in the language of others an escape route to remove oneself from the embarrassment of this situation, by reconstructing a new topos of expression rich in exchanges and discursive interactions? This article aims to answer these fundamental questions by adopting a discourse and identity approach. We choose as a field of observation the Bulletin de la Société d’Enseignement mutuel du Tonkin ( Bulletin de la SEM).
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Pub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1177/09571558241313181
Lisa Zeller
L’article analyse la représentation de la construction d’un lieu central du pouvoir dans la série télévisée Versailles dans le contexte de la crise de déterritorialisation suite au terrorisme international. Une comparaison de la représentation de la lutte de l’État contre ses adversaires intérieurs et extérieurs à des fictions historiques de la cour du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle révèle que les motifs centraux de la série peuvent être reliés à ces fictions, tandis que les différences par rapport à celles-ci sont expliquées par la confrontation de la série avec son propre lieu historique : l’ambivalence par rapport à l’aspect stratégique de la construction du pouvoir central à partir d’une position de fragilité intense ainsi que l’analogie implicite entre les protestants révoltants contre ce pouvoir et le terrorisme islamiste. Dans le contexte des attentats de Paris en 2015, la divergence entre une représentation antipathique des protestants comme traîtres et agents d’une infiltration étrangère dans la première saison de la série (2015) et la représentation sympathique dans la troisième (2018), qui en fait des victimes d’un pouvoir de contrôle excessif et d’une exclusion intolérante, est attribuée à l’évolution des affects contemporains allant d’une condamnation des attaques terroristes à la critique de la réaction politique à ceux-ci et aux reproches d’islamophobie et d’intolérance.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1177/09571558241301318
Ryan Evelyn
This article considers visual and narrative representations of mothers and daughters in the understudied publication Mademoiselle Âge Tendre. Issues spanning the years 1968 to 1971 suggest a marked interest – in some cases, a reliance – on the mother figure who, from an adolescent's point of view in the late 1960s, would most likely have been considered conservative, traditional and belonging to the older generation of women. A closer look at advertisements for menstrual products, advice columns, health and wellness write ups and celebrity exposés reveal diverse representations of the mother–daughter link ( le lien mère-fille) that oscillates between reliance and independence, thus bringing into focus the larger question of intergenerationality, la jeunesse and the socio-cultural implications of May 1968.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1177/09571558241296024
Madison Mainwaring
This article proposes an interrogation of the tropes of female narcissism with a material history of the mirror and women's accounts of looking at themselves in nineteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of sources in order to trace the introduction of the vanity into domestic spaces, I argue that the newfound availability of the looking glass, while encouraging a self-objectification in the eyes of the others, likewise allowed female subjects the fashioning of a critical eye, the ability to construct and play with femininity and imagine alternative ways of being. By historicizing the act of looking at one's reflection, I aim to turn the female gaze back on itself, providing a contextualization of women's self-understanding and perception dependent on material and embodied practices.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1177/09571558241301320
Linda Muchová
Frederick Charles Worth (1825–1895) is consensually regarded as a founder of haute couture. His business was accompanied by unprecedented marketing strategies. These strategies included also the person of dressmaker in order to change his social status. In accordance with this, dressmaking is no longer just a craft; it has begun to aspire to the position of art. This article wants to show that the process of establishing “the field of haute couture” (Bourdieu) cannot be described only in sociological terms but contains a substantial esthetic dimension. Our analysis of Worth's social practices reveals a series of dialectical relations that constitute objects of fashion as such. The new institutional framework of haute couture inevitably accelerates changes in the material design of garments, which at the same time supports their moral obsolescence. In the second step, we discuss Charles Baudelaire's attempt to characterize the nature of specifically modern art. Baudelaire's formulations emphasize a very similar dialectical structure of modern beauty, which is constituted by its inclination to transience and decay. In this sense, Worth's innovative practice itself produces the esthetic quality of a single apparel. So, we can read Worth's haute couture as an instance of Baudelairian modern art.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1177/09571558241301321
Nuri Batuhan Lüleci
This article argues that in Caché, politics, aesthetics and life collapse into one another by setting a dystopic simulacrum from which the spectator becomes emancipated. Caché critiques colonial-racist discourses within the France–Algeria context alongside the society of the spectacle, subverting binary categorisations such as form/content, ethics/aesthetics and diegetic/extradiegetic through staged hyperrealism, self-reflexivity and manipulations. It forces the anaesthetised spectator to confront the postcolonial uncanny in its naked truth. This article presents an original contribution to existing scholarship by linking Caché to the genesis and ongoing legacy of anti-colonial dissent and resistance in the history of Francophone cinema.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1177/09571558241286636
Elke Defever
The following article offers a comparative, contextualized analysis of two versions of Cauchemar Blanc: its initial iteration as a bande dessinée published in 1974 by Moebius and its cinematic adaptation in 1991 by Mathieu Kassovitz. By analyzing the aesthetic and discursive strategies used, the study demonstrates how the authors use visual media to expose the pervasiveness of racism in France. Though Kassovitz remains faithful to the original, his adaptation intensifies Moebius's critique of French attitudes toward immigration and the ethnic diversification of society through the addition of humor, which functions as a call for collective action and sociopolitical reform. A comparative analysis of the film and comic within their historical contexts reveals the aesthetic and political nuances of transitioning between mediums and highlights evolving discursive strategies used by Left-leaning artists between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, emphasizing the persistence of racism in France despite institutional efforts against it.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1177/09571558241270440
Mohamed Semlali
Mahi Binebine se veut un veilleur de mémoire qui consacre ses oeuvres aux laissés pour compte, aux victimes de l’innommable. Son roman Cannibales (1999) s’inscrit dans la mouvance d’une littérature qui interroge le drame de l’émigration clandestine et son cortège de cadavres et de rêves brisés. Attirés par le chant des sirènes de l’Eldorado européen, les candidats à l’émigration illégale, gavés d’illusions par les rabatteurs, se lancent à l’assaut de la Méditerranée sur des barques de fortune. Ceux qui ne périssent pas noyés, doivent affronter une amère désillusion et subir, comme Momo, une dévoration qui les vide de leur substance sans pour autant assurer leur intégration aux sociétés d’accueil où ils deviennent les proies favorites des mafias de la traite des êtres humains. Sur les deux bords, les clandestins doivent affronter une indifférence meurtrière qui les renvoie à leur condition d’invisibles, à leur vie de cafards.
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