The recent gilets jaunes movement in France has put in question the traditional oppositions (left/right, progressive/conservative) that has marked the French political discourse since the Second World War. What are the causes and ramifications of this significant transformation? Are these protests that paralyzed France for more than half a year only a “French story” or do they raise issues beyond the borders of France? Have the decisions made by the French government in response to the movement resolved the crisis? This article explores the extent to which the gilets jaunes movement reveals France’s current contradictions between its ambition to remain a major nation in the world and the formidable challenges it faces regarding the preservation of its sovereignty with respect to EU’s demands, its socio-economic welfare system in a globalized world, and its democratic form of governance with the rise of populism. These questions/issues that are deeply rooted in the movement have national but also global implications.
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This article presents and analyzes how clothing shapes refugee identity in Des sneakers comme Jay-Z, an engaged photographic project from 2018 by French photographers Frédéric Delangle and Ambroise Tézenas. Commissioned by the association Emmaüs Solidarité, the series features forty-six portraits of men seeking asylum in France. The refugees wear outfits they selected from available donations at the Centre de premier accueil de la Porte de la Chapelle in Paris. First-person texts featuring the men’s thoughts about their clothing choices accompany the images. I contend that vestimentary choices in Des sneakers comme Jay-Z reflect each man’s sense of agency in the social construction of his nascent transnational identity as he adapts to life within the French Republic. Although casual, everyday outfits rarely draw engaged reflection by those around us, photographing the refugees in their selected outfits and questioning them about these items creates a project that defamiliarizes common garments to encourage viewers to reflect on clothing’s role in fashioning new subjectivities. Reading the accompanying texts through the lens of the sociology of clothing and fashion, the article investigates how the men’s apparel choices reflect both nostalgia for their homelands and a desire to integrate into French society. Through the shared human experience of self-presentation through dress, Des sneakers comme Jay-Z thus constructs a narrative emphasizing refugees’ basic humanity in order to contest anti-migrant discourses.
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Étant donné l’image d’auteur engagé contre toute forme de pensée réactionnaire dont bénéficie Édouard Louis dans le champ littéraire et l’espace public français depuis la sortie évènementielle de son premier roman En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014), la teneur du discours proposé par l’écrivain lors de la publication de son second livre, Histoire de la violence (2016), était remarquable. Louis n’a eu de cesse, sachant que l’agression autour de laquelle s’articule le récit implique un homme d’origine kabyle, d’insister sur la peur qu’il avait éprouvée de voir son texte faire l’objet d’une appropriation qui le transformerait en un “objet raciste,” et a systématiquement insisté sur sa volonté de faire du roman, au vu de la nature sensible des thèmes abordés, “un livre profondément antiraciste.” Il s’agira dans cet essai d’interroger les implications de cette angoisse littéraire à travers une réflexion sur la place ambiguë occupée par le facteur racial dans un dispositif narratif qui oscille entre d’un côté le besoin de s’assurer que “la lecture raciste devien[ne] comme impossible,” et de l’autre le souci d’inscrire l’expérience de la violence dans un contexte postcolonial. Histoire de la violence constitue selon nous un cas privilégié permettant de réfléchir à la question de la responsabilité et ce que nous appelons “l’éthique d’engagement des écrivains blancs” dans le contexte de la France contemporaine marqué à la fois par la montée en puissance du discours réactionnaire, et un intérêt croissant pour les récits mettant en scène des personnages postcoloniaux.
考虑到爱德华·路易斯自其第一部小说《En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule》（2014年）的事件性发行以来，在文学领域和法国公共空间中享有的反对任何形式反动思想的作家形象，作者在其第二本书《暴力史》（2016年）出版时提出的演讲内容非常出色。路易从未停止过，因为他知道故事所围绕的侵略性涉及一个卡比勒血统的人，他坚持认为，他害怕看到自己的文本被挪用，这将使他成为“种族主义对象”，并系统地坚持，鉴于所讨论主题的敏感性质，他希望将这部小说变成“一本深刻的反种族主义书籍”。这篇文章将通过反思种族因素在叙事装置中所占据的模糊位置来质疑这种文学焦虑的含义，一方面，需要确保“种族主义阅读变得不可能”，另一方面，关注将暴力体验置于后殖民背景中。在我们看来，暴力史是一个特殊的案例，可以在当代法国的背景下反思责任问题和我们所称的“白人作家的参与伦理”，其特点是反动话语的兴起，以及对描绘后殖民人物的叙事越来越感兴趣。
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As scholars of French and Francophone Studies (FFS), our collective expertise encompasses a vast array of topics and methodological approaches. Too often, however, we write only for our peers, thereby neglecting opportunities and responsibilities to engage broader audiences. I advocate in this article for increasing the overlap between FFS, public humanities, digital humanities, and K-12 education, with a particular emphasis on the latter. In doing so, we can contribute to valorizing FFS, strengthen ties with our K-12 colleagues, inspire young people to pursue FFS in college, and promote intercultural understanding.
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Upon the 1830 landing on the shores of Algeria, France solidified control of coastal territories. Although the French had little initial desire to move into the vast desert interior of North Africa, the so-called scramble for Africa and the glorification of Britain’s Dr. Livingston after his death later in the century inspired many French politicians and scientists to reexamine their own engagement with the continent. As a result, in 1883, Richard de Régnauld de Lannoy de Bissy (Lannoy), working on behalf of the Service géographique de l’armée, published the first thirty-eight of his sixty-three-sheet Carte d’Afrique. Although much of the continent had been visited and documented by Europeans as late as the early 1880s, there remained many blank spaces on French maps. This paper will examine Lannoy’s feuille 17: Timbouktou, which presents one such relatively unknown sector of the Sahara Desert, to the French people. Lannoy documents important physical characteristics such as the flow of the Niger River, large sections of desert, and both present and past caravan routes. However, he also de-legitimizes indigenous claims to the area and presents it as open and ready to accept French control.
1830年登陆阿尔及利亚海岸后，法国巩固了对沿海领土的控制。尽管法国人最初几乎没有进入北非广阔沙漠内陆的愿望，但所谓的对非洲的争夺，以及本世纪末英国利文斯顿博士去世后对他的赞美，激励了许多法国政治家和科学家重新审视他们自己与非洲大陆的接触。因此，1883年，Richard de Régnauld de Lannoy de Bissy（Lannoy）代表武装部出版了他63页《非洲宪章》中的前三十八页。尽管欧洲人早在19世纪80年代初就访问并记录了欧洲大陆的大部分地区，但法国地图上仍有许多空白。本文将研究兰诺伊的《Feuille17:Timbouktou》，它向法国人展示了撒哈拉沙漠中一个相对不为人知的地区。Lannoy记录了重要的物理特征，如尼日尔河的流量、大片沙漠以及现在和过去的商队路线。然而，他也使土著人对该地区的主张合法化，并表示该地区是开放的，随时准备接受法国的控制。
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{"title":"Lorsque rentrer à l’école, c’est rester à la maison: homeschooling in France as a contemporary critique of social institutions","authors":"Erin Tremblay Ponnou‐Delaffon","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"189-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42495800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital geographies: online spaces and gay identity in twenty-first-century France","authors":"Brian Troth","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"229-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70457166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ENG) This article studies Didier Daeninckx as a writer of deindustrialization. In the novel PlayBack (1986) and in short stories such as “Traverse no 28” (1998), he weaves a multifaceted critique of France as haunted by its industrial past. Daeninckx’s first tool is to write a noir history of deindustrialization, thus producing a subaltern history of Lorraine. Reflecting on the uses of memory (and of his own work in that regard), Daeninckx also writes a criticism of the nascent business of industrial heritage. Finally, this article appraises Daeninckx’s critique by examining his writing’s nostalgia for a lost industrial world, as well and its denunciation of post-industrial subjectivations.
{"title":"Lorraine Noir: Didier Daeninckx and the writing of deindustrialization","authors":"T. Raboin","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.12","url":null,"abstract":"ENG) This article studies Didier Daeninckx as a writer of deindustrialization. In the novel PlayBack (1986) and in short stories such as “Traverse no 28” (1998), he weaves a multifaceted critique of France as haunted by its industrial past. Daeninckx’s first tool is to write a noir history of deindustrialization, thus producing a subaltern history of Lorraine. Reflecting on the uses of memory (and of his own work in that regard), Daeninckx also writes a criticism of the nascent business of industrial heritage. Finally, this article appraises Daeninckx’s critique by examining his writing’s nostalgia for a lost industrial world, as well and its denunciation of post-industrial subjectivations.","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"211-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45841229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dance performance for D-Day celebrations: reflections on the aesthetic of war commemorations in France","authors":"P. Bauer","doi":"10.3828/cfc.2020.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53563,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French Civilization","volume":"45 1","pages":"165-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42252405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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