Pub Date : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1177/09571558231157224
A. Mondon, S. Dawes
In this interview, Aurelien Mondon and Simon Dawes analyse the mainstreaming of far-right politics. It aims to make sense of Marine Le Pen's rise by putting it in perspective and accounting for the role of the mainstream itself in the process. Building on the research Mondon has undertaken with colleagues, this interview explores in particular the importance of understanding mainstreaming beyond it being the success of the far right or a sign of its growing popularity. In particular, this requires a more critical take on issues such as populism, but also articulations of racism, to understand how politics which had been relegated to the margins of history have returned to the norm and occupy today a disproportionate space in public discourse. Far from downplaying the threat posed by the far right today, Mondon stresses that combatting it is of course essential, but that a more holistic approach, which tackles the role of mainstream actors in the legitimisation of reactionary politics, is essential if we are to stop the slide towards fascism.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1177/09571558221150999
M. Wieviorka
Résumé En 1989, l’affaire dite du « foulard » ou du « voile islamique » voit en France les passions se déchaîner à propos de la laïcité à l’école. L’épisode est vieux d’un tiers de siècle, et cet article s’intéresse à ce qu’il présente de fondateur dans des débats qui, depuis, se sont structurés, intensifiés et diversifiés. Islam, terrorisme, immigration, égalité des femmes et des hommes, racisme et antisémitisme sont au cœur de la vie intellectuelle et politique, une novlangue est apparue, « cancel culture », islamo-gauchisme », « wokisme », etc., et deux extrémismes désormais proposent un principe d’unité indifférent ou hostile à ce qui fait diversité. D’une part le nationalisme, ce qui n’est pas étonnant. Et d’autre part la perversion de l’idée républicaine que l’auteur appelle « républicanisme », et dont il analyse les implications.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1177/09571558221143491
Hugh Dauncey
The satirical songs of Jean Yanne (1933–2003) are a little-studied aspect of the work of this French singer-songwriter, comedian, actor and film director. Composed and performed in the late-1950s and mid-1960s Yanne's satirical music, like his radio and television comedy sketches, spoke to tensions in French politics and society during a period of rapid socioeconomic and sociocultural modernisation. Yanne's idiosyncratically derisive humour was controversial, dividing audiences and critics into those who saw the comedy and others suspecting him of right-wing anarchist nihilism. Analysis of his songs’ themes, lyrics and music shows how Yanne's musical satire continued and developed existing trends in humour and musical comedy, and discussion of how he was critiqued as ‘poujadist’ enables fuller understanding of the complexity of his oeuvre and its reception. Criticism of Yanne as poujadist aims to invalidate his satire, but ‘getting the joke’ equates, ultimately, to seeing his humour as freedom of speech.
Jean Yanne（1933–2003）的讽刺歌曲是这位法国创作歌手、喜剧演员、演员和电影导演作品中很少被研究的方面。Yanne的讽刺音乐创作和表演于20世纪50年代末和60年代中期，就像他的广播和电视喜剧小品一样，反映了在社会经济和社会文化快速现代化时期法国政治和社会的紧张局势。Yanne独特的嘲讽幽默引起了争议，将观众和评论家分为看过这部喜剧的人和怀疑他右翼无政府主义虚无主义的人。对他的歌曲主题、歌词和音乐的分析表明，扬的音乐讽刺是如何延续和发展幽默和音乐喜剧的现有趋势的，讨论他是如何被批评为“poujadist”的，可以更全面地理解他的作品的复杂性及其受欢迎程度。批评扬是poujadist的目的是使他的讽刺无效，但“得到笑话”最终等同于将他的幽默视为言论自由。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1177/09571558231152994
P. Mcquade
Dany Laferrière has demonstrated a continuous engagement with Japan, beginning with the novel Éroshima in 1987 and continuing to his most recent publication in 2021, Sur la route avec Bashō. The aim of this article is to understand what role Japan plays within Laferrière's writing and how it helps us understand the complex network of sex, power, and race in his work. Between the cosmopolitanism of the network of nation-states and the despair of identity politics, I situate Laferrière's use of Japan as a fantasy that empowers the writer beyond the impasse of a white-black racial imaginary. Reading Laferrière this way allows us to understand how his writing uses the fantasy of the Orient, often to the detriment of Asian women. As such it contributes to comparative work between Asian and French literatures, debates in Francophonie, and critical understandings of race in the Francophone sphere of the Americas.
Dany laferri展示了与日本的持续接触，从1987年的小说Éroshima开始，一直持续到他2021年的最新出版，Sur la route avec bashashi。本文的目的是了解日本在拉费里的作品中扮演了什么角色，以及它如何帮助我们理解他作品中复杂的性、权力和种族网络。在民族国家网络的世界主义和身份政治的绝望之间，我把拉费里特对日本的使用定位为一种幻想，使作家能够超越白人-黑人种族想象的僵局。以这种方式阅读拉费里弗瑞，可以让我们理解他的作品是如何利用东方的幻想，常常损害亚洲女性的利益。因此，它有助于亚洲和法国文学之间的比较工作，法语国家的辩论，以及美洲法语国家对种族的批判性理解。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09571558221150702
Wendy Michallat
This article begins with the recommendations of the Leathes Report of 1916 in connection with the internationalisation of language study and the reasons why the ideal of transnational mobility was slow to take root in language departments in the UK. It examines how the provision of safe, secure and affordable accommodation for women students was an effective counter to alarmist stay-at-home tales. And it looks at how feminist educators campaigned to promote international learning and teaching opportunities for women scholars. It argues that the Leathes concept of an ‘immersion’ experience conflicted with the University of Paris's interpretation of the ‘internationalisation’ of study. The Cité universitaire (CU) project, launched in the 1920s, offered the possibility for the easy placement of a growing number of students from the British red-brick universities in particular. But the conviction of British academics that the proposed Collège Franco-Britannique should house both French and British students was at odds with the University of Paris's concept of a campus of representative national houses in which only students of that country were permitted to live. It concludes that the mobilisation of the profession into subject bodies was a key factor in the evolution of study abroad programs and more broadly in the consolidation of ‘modern studies’ in the new civic and red-brick universities across Britain.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1177/09571558221150700
J. Dutton
Terroir is an untranslatable, unstable, and often undefinable French term frequently used in the global wine industry. This article focuses on the transnational potentialities and cultural transferability of terroir in reflecting on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place. After outlining the evolution of terroir in France to demonstrate how and why it appears to have become a floating signifier, I examine the use of terroir in the Australian winemaking context. I thereby provide an example of how this French concept has travelled and been translated by Australian proponents of the term at the other end of the New World of wine. Finally, I present conclusions drawn from the particular case of French-Australian cultural transfers to demonstrate key features of the current state of terroir's globalisation.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1177/09571558221144368
D. Holmes
Nick Hewitt wrote wonderfully well about the significance of different places in French history and culture, and in our lives. Colette was a chronicler of places, from the famous childhood house and garden in Burgundy, to Brittany, Provence and of course Paris. But as her writing moves across regions and houses, home recurs as a crucial place in the emotional landscape of a human life. Nick was also always attentive to the relationship between canonical and ‘minor’ authors, and to the interplay between socio-political moment and cultural production. In this article home is examined as a vital and recurring theme not only in the work of Colette but also in that of her lesser-known female contemporaries – for home as a place has particular practical and emotional meanings for women.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1177/09571558221145188
R. Cruickshank
Placed in the context of scandals surrounding Houellebecq's earlier novels, Anéantir (2022) is described as strategically losing its political and other plots to focus on the death of its protagonist. This narrative choice cannot, however, dispense with questions raised by representations of race (universalism, colourism, racialization, Islamophobia); of colonial and postcolonial exploitation (including the Françafrique); and of ‘green-bashing’, anthropocentrism and the elision of differential impacts of climate catastrophe. These questions are considered in terms of necropolitical power over who lives or dies, and precarious lives experienced as ‘slow death’. Fiction is established as always already a form of necropolitics–of textual decisions of life and death. Whilst climate catastrophe is not foregrounded in this predominantly anthropocentric narrative, the ultimate question is whether Houellebecq intends any kind of self-reflexive ‘ecocritique’, or whether the gravest global scandal—of human contributions to climate crisis—is ignored.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-26DOI: 10.1177/09571558221150701
J. Flower
Recognized in Switzerland by numerous prizes, Anne-Claire Decorvet's fiction has yet to make its mark abroad. With the exception of her biographical novel, Un lieu sans raison, inspired by the life of Marguerite Sirvins, it is set predominantly in and around Geneva, explores family and social instability, insanity and psychiatric care in the twentieth century. This article explores some of the distinctive and characteristic features of her writing with a view towards introducing her work to new readers.
安妮-克莱尔·德克尔维特的小说在瑞士获得了众多奖项的认可，但尚未在国外崭露头角。除了她的传记小说《没有理由》(unlieu sans reason)之外，这部小说的灵感来自玛格丽特·西尔文(Marguerite Sirvins)的生活，主要以日内瓦及其周边地区为背景，探讨了20世纪的家庭和社会不稳定、精神错乱和精神护理。本文探讨了她的一些独特的和有特色的写作特征，以期向新读者介绍她的作品。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-26DOI: 10.1177/09571558231152992
P. Marlière
What is ‘islamo-gauchisme’? The word sparked heated debates in French academia and in public conversations in 2020–2021. This article endeavors to shed light on the origin of the notion, to look at its uses within and outside academia, and to reflect on the political ramifications of the controversy. Islamo-gauchisme is an unsubstantial notion which operates as political nudge in the public debate: it sounds sufficiently threatening and self-explanatory to be taken seriously. This study shows that the controversy on islamo-gauchisme has helped mainstream illiberal and right-wing policies, to make them plainly acceptable to the public.
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