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Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Femmes et francophones Pour un dépassement des marginalités dans les constructions genrées

Hélène Barthelmebs

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Women and French-speaking Writers. Move Beyond Marginalities in Gendered Constructions

Writing, for female authors, and above all for French-speaking writers, is a transgressive act. The double marginalization provided by these peripheral statuses, when compared to the emblematic figure of the “French writer”, leads to the question of the construction of “decentered” identities. By focusing exclusively on works from (the) Francophone literature (those by Assia Djebar, Anne Hébert and Alice Rivaz), this study of feminine identities and women’s literary constructions analyzes parallel themes inherent to literary female characters: they are simultaneously the reflection of social realities and an ideological deconstruction. The paper also examines linguistic and stylistic features involved in the delineation of feminine writing. French-speaking works generally propose the destruction of frozen identities, reflecting the phenomena more or less marked by transculturation, (such as the deconstruction of literary genres, and the subversion of the cultural heritage of the “dominant”). There are numerous similarities between the situation of the colonized and of women, namely, the stereotypes that transform them into a subculture in which they are seen as objects rather than subjects.

Key words: Gender Studies, francophone literatures, woman’s writing, 20th century literature, norm, transgression.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

La littérature francophone mauricienne, un écho à la littérature dix‑huitièmiste comme héritage ?

Sonia Dosoruth

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

When the French novelist Bernardin de Saint‑Pierre wrote Paul and Virginia, in 1787, little did he know the international impact the book would have. Indeed, this novel emblematises the whole of the Mauritian francophone literature. This is because the vast majority of authors, from the colonial period to date, have internalised some form of mimicry of the book. The legacy it supports ranges from the representation of the utopian island to the ideological and aesthetics values of The Enlightenment, all of which pass through culture, History, the marks of anti‑slavery movement, or the works of Nature.


Key words: The Enlightenment, Mauritius, nature, realism, literature



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Discours littéraire et pensée féministe De Simone de Beauvoir à Simone Schwarz-Bart

Buata B. Malela

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Literary Discourse and Feminist Thought. From Simone de Beauvoir to Simone Schwarz-Bart

This article aims to rethink the social and literary trajectory of Simone Schwarz-Bart in the 1960s and 1970s in the francophone intellectual field. The paper discusses her views on gender relations, her relationship to the feminist movement and some of its prominent figures (e.g. Simone de Beauvoir and Monique Wittig). Finally, the impact of feminism on her literary production is analyzed.

Key words: francophone literature, black feminism, french literature, feminism, gender studies.




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Controverses autour de la question identitaire des lettres belges (1881—1980)

Aleksandra Komandera

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The aim of this paper is to discuss some questions concerning French-Belgian literature between 1881 and 1980. Since 1830, when Belgium became an independent country, controversies about autonomy and dependence of its national writing have involved many authors or theorists, and divided its literary scene. The magazine La Jeune Belgique argued with the old generation of writers and fought against the idea of social art and symbolists’ innovations and exaggerations in literature. Then, some regionalist authors rejected French domination by focusing on local scenery and characters. They were criticized soon by writers forming a group called groupe du Lundi, who claimed the affiliation to French literature. This view was challenged in the 70s and 80s, first, by the notion of belgitude, then, in La Belgique malgré tout.


Key words: Controversy, Belgian literature in French, identity, autonomy, dependence.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Hushed Bodies, Screaming Narratives: The Construction of Trans-Identity in 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature

C.J. Gomolka

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

Michel Foucault described 19th-century France as a period of intense sexual scrutiny as well as a watershed moment that gave birth to the formal recognition, evolution, and study of “deviant” sexual identities. While this may be true, modern French studies still idle in examining the epistemological effect of this operative change in French ideology, society, and more specifically literature. If studies into 19th- and 20th-century French gay and lesbian literatures and ideologies have begun to flourish in some academic francophone circles, trans-literature has been overlooked. Moreover, this critical oversight inadvertently highlights the all too often modern omission of the “T” in the LGBT community. This article will place the works of five French authors spanning the 19th and 20th centuries in communication with contemporary queer theory in an attempt to examine the nascent evolution of what today might be considered transgender identity, as well as analyse the meaning attached to queer identities during this period in French and francophone literatures.


Key words: transgender, queer theory, 19th century, 20th century, France, narrative.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Édouard Glissant : entre l’insularité et la pensée archipélique

Michał Obszyński

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The goal of this paper is to show how Édouard Glissant’s understanding of Antillean culture and literature evolve from the project of antillanité to the idea of creolization. The former (put forward in Le discours antillais published in 1981), bears the mark of an “insular” perception of the West Indies, but it simultaneously gives birth to some concepts stressing a relational character of the Antillean social and cultural reality. In a more detailed and elaborated form, this “archipelagic” perspective will be in the very center of Glissant’s aesthetic program presented in Poétique de la relation (1990) and Traité du Tout‑monde (1997), which extend the range of analyzed issues in order to encompass the globalization phenomenon.


Key words: creolization, postcolonial literature, Caribbean literature, Édouard Glissant, antillanité, cultural transfers, literature and globalization



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Subjectivité îlienne et cheminement : De Patrick Chamoiseau à Soeuf Elbadawi

Buata B. Malela

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Our purpose is to study how the island is manifested in the relationship between the movement in space and identity in the Caribbean literary discourse. We took Chamoiseau for paradigmatic case of contemporary writer. Our idea is this: the question of the subject is a way to make a double social and literary attack in the intellectual universe. And subjectivity is only possible by a self‑inner journey to another. This approach remains partial in Elbadawi which itself is limited to the exploration of an ego that suffers. And the conditions of possibility of this approach are threefold and is measured in space possible.

Key words: Chamoiseau, Elbadawi, comparative literature, Island, francophone literature



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

De la Flandre insolite au fantastique, une spécialité de la littérature belge francophone

Renata Bizek-Tatara

Langue: FR | Date de publication: 16-02-2021 | Résumé | p. 158-167

This paper shows how the image of the uncanny Flanders, elaborated in the early nineteenth century by Madame de Staël as well as by French writers and voyagers contributed to the specificity of Belgian francophone literature and especially to the creation of the concept of the Belgian school of the bizarre. He examines the impact of the hetero-image on self-image and the role of literature in the formation and perpetuation of the stereotype of Belgium, land of strange. It reveals how Belgian writers used, petrified and propagated this image to build their difference and show their belgité in order to make it a specificity of Belgium.

2021-02-16



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Crainte, jalousie, indignation, espoir… ou le chemin vers la reconnaissance des écrivains immigrants au Québec

Tina Mouneimné

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

This article aims at browsing the reasons why French-speaking authors of ethnic origin had to “fight” for their place in the Quebec literary pantheon and how they have succeeded in doing it. The battle for the recognition of the immigrant writer has proceeded in parallel to the battle fought in the name of recognition of the immigrant himself in the society. It was, in fact, due not only to the outstanding quality of some of these francophone authors’ works, but also to the socio-political circumstances related to the changes occurring in Quebec since the 1960’s. However, as it has been underlined through the “Affaire LaRue”, the only criteria of recognition of anyone’s text should be the quality of their work, otherwise, we fall into other, endless discourses concerning identity, immigration policies, etc. that take us away from literature.


Key words: Literature, Quebec, immigrant, LaRue, recognition.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Sexual Politics: Mapping the Body in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant

Richard J. Gray II

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

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