Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File is John Edgar Wideman’s latest attempt at looking at a photograph that has been haunting him for decades: that of the dead face of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Wideman delves into the records of Emmett’s father, Louis, who was sent to Italy as a soldier during the Second World War and was court-martialed and executed for alleged rape and murder. Emmett’s torturers were acquitted and further absolved by the minutes of Louis’ trial: for the all-white jury, the father’s crime was to blame for the son’s faults. Wideman reopens the Louis Till file and pores over its probable lies in a memoir that fuses fiction, investigation, speculation and fact. Yet the writer repeatedly acknowledges his words’ failed attempt to grasp the fantom life that haunts America’s racial memory, so that in the end failure to represent disrupts the mere concept of historical investigation, exposing the ethical and methodological faultines of the official record. But the failure to produce a counternarrative intended to fill the gaps of the farcical trial is the poetic figuring of a life and History Wideman ceaselessly rewrites.
《拯救生命:路易斯·蒂尔档案》是约翰·埃德加·怀德曼(John Edgar Wideman)最近一次尝试审视一张困扰了他几十年的照片:埃米特·蒂尔(Emmett Till)的死脸，这是一名来自芝加哥的14岁黑人，1955年因涉嫌向一名白人妇女吹口哨而被处以私刑。怀德曼深入研究了埃米特的父亲路易斯的记录，他在第二次世界大战期间作为一名士兵被派往意大利，并因涉嫌强奸和谋杀而被军事法庭处决。虐待埃米特的人被无罪释放，路易斯的审判记录进一步赦免了他:对于全是白人的陪审团来说，父亲的罪行应该归咎于儿子的过错。怀德曼重新打开了路易斯·蒂尔的档案，在一本融合了虚构、调查、猜测和事实的回忆录中，仔细研究了其中可能存在的谎言。然而，作者一再承认，他的文字“未能抓住萦绕在美国种族记忆中的虚幻生活，因此最终未能代表历史调查的纯粹概念，暴露了官方记录的伦理和方法上的错误。”但是，未能产生一种旨在填补滑稽审判空白的反叙事，是对生活和历史的诗意描绘，怀德曼不断地重写。
{"title":"Failing Private Till: John Edgar Wideman’s Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File","authors":"Flora Valadié","doi":"10.3917/rfea.163.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.163.0072","url":null,"abstract":"Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File is John Edgar Wideman’s latest attempt at looking at a photograph that has been haunting him for decades: that of the dead face of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Wideman delves into the records of Emmett’s father, Louis, who was sent to Italy as a soldier during the Second World War and was court-martialed and executed for alleged rape and murder. Emmett’s torturers were acquitted and further absolved by the minutes of Louis’ trial: for the all-white jury, the father’s crime was to blame for the son’s faults. Wideman reopens the Louis Till file and pores over its probable lies in a memoir that fuses fiction, investigation, speculation and fact. Yet the writer repeatedly acknowledges his words’ failed attempt to grasp the fantom life that haunts America’s racial memory, so that in the end failure to represent disrupts the mere concept of historical investigation, exposing the ethical and methodological faultines of the official record. But the failure to produce a counternarrative intended to fill the gaps of the farcical trial is the poetic figuring of a life and History Wideman ceaselessly rewrites.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87482642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To what extent does contemporary performance contribute to the archiving process? The theatrical deconstruction carried out by the experimental Wooster Group underlines the archiving process on stage. The embodiment of temporal strata (past, present, future) stages a multimedia archiving performance of the New York avant-garde. However, the Wooster Group’s intermedial experimentations with digital archives raise questions about the limits of their art.
{"title":"Performer l’archive, archiver la performance : archiviologie du Wooster Group","authors":"Xavier Lemoine","doi":"10.3917/rfea.162.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.162.0067","url":null,"abstract":"To what extent does contemporary performance contribute to the archiving process? The theatrical deconstruction carried out by the experimental Wooster Group underlines the archiving process on stage. The embodiment of temporal strata (past, present, future) stages a multimedia archiving performance of the New York avant-garde. However, the Wooster Group’s intermedial experimentations with digital archives raise questions about the limits of their art.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88395778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cet article revele en quoi les archives des hopitaux psychiatriques devoilent la violence symbolique et physique infligee aux corps racialises, confines dans ces lieux par l’autorite medicale blanche aux xixe et xxe siecles. En prenant pour appui les archives d’institutions medicales et d’organisations de defense des droits civiques, ainsi qu’une enquete qualitative, cet article s’interesse a l’invisibilisation du point de vue des patients depuis le xixe siecle, a la possible elaboration de contre-recits portant sur les resistances noires et aux usages sociaux et politiques contemporains de l’histoire medicale.
{"title":"Behind the Hospitals’ Closed Doors: Medical Archives as Sites of Racial Memory and Social (In)Justice","authors":"Élodie Grossi","doi":"10.3917/rfea.162.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.162.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article revele en quoi les archives des hopitaux psychiatriques devoilent la violence symbolique et physique infligee aux corps racialises, confines dans ces lieux par l’autorite medicale blanche aux xixe et xxe siecles. En prenant pour appui les archives d’institutions medicales et d’organisations de defense des droits civiques, ainsi qu’une enquete qualitative, cet article s’interesse a l’invisibilisation du point de vue des patients depuis le xixe siecle, a la possible elaboration de contre-recits portant sur les resistances noires et aux usages sociaux et politiques contemporains de l’histoire medicale.","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89093048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"With both hands on the wheel\u0085: Cybernetic Intersections and Transformations in Jim Handlin’s Poetry","authors":"Sämi Ludwig","doi":"10.3917/rfea.162.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.162.0103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73311054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discipline des corps féminins dans A Chorus Line (1975)","authors":"A. Bottero","doi":"10.3917/rfea.165.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.165.0056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88064930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personnes de couleur libres et Masterless Caribbean dans la Caraïbe révolutionnaire (fin XVIIIe siècle-début XIXe siècle)","authors":"N. Terrien","doi":"10.3917/rfea.164.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.164.0058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81478988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Énormité de l’insignifiant. Oversizing the trivial","authors":"Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun, P. Schor, A. Ullmo","doi":"10.3917/rfea.160.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.160.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82549723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Intensity is a signal, not a truth”: An interview with Lauren Berlant","authors":"N. Manning, Lauren Berlant","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.154.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.154.0113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79499513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pursuit of Happiness, or Contemplating Trout in Ron Rashs Fiction","authors":"Frédérique Spill","doi":"10.3917/RFEA.157.0199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/RFEA.157.0199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43827,"journal":{"name":"REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78057626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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