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Revue: Romanica Silesiana

(Re)visions télévisuelles de la colonisation du Nord – série médiatique d’Un homme et son péché de Claude-Henri Grignon

Katarzyna Wójcik

Langue: FR | Date de publication: 28-12-2020 | Résumé | p. 86-97

Claude-Henri Grignon’s novel Un homme et son péché presents the life of French Canadian colonial settlers of the Laurentides region at the end of XIXth century. It depicts a realistic image of the colonisation period of Quebec history. The novel is at the origin of a media series that englobes a radio adaptation, three filmic adaptations, theater adaptations, a comic, and two television series. The aim of this article is to discuss the vision of colonisation by analysing two television series based on Un homme et son péché: Les Belles Histoires des pays d’en haut broadcast from 1956 to 1970 and Les Pays d’en haut broadcast from 2016 to 2019 on ICI Radio-Canada Télé 1. The analysis will try to trace modifications inherent to the process of adaptation on different levels (protagonists, representation of space, ideological discourse) and their influence on the vision of the colonisation period.

2020-12-28



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Georges Bataille : art, origine et transgression dans les peintures de Lascaux

Diane Gabrysiak

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

In 1955 Georges Bataille published two books on art : Manet located the origin of modernism in Manet’s work, while the other, Lascaux ou la naissance de l’art, located the birth of humanity in the cave paintings of Lascaux, the first known example of prehistoric cave painting. Discovered in 1940, the cave came to represent, for many intellectuals of the post-war years, the origin of humanity as well as the origin of art. This article problematizes the notion of transgression in its relation to aesthetics and aesthetic creation in Bataille’s writings on Lascaux, exploring his developments on alteration, transfiguration, uselesness and “the inform”. For Bataille, the paintings in the cave became the symbol of the origin of art as the origin of transgression, as well as the idea of the origin as transgression itself.


Key words: Georges Bataille, Lascaux, transgression, cave painting, art, alteration.



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

À l’origine de tout, la Peur. Le cas de Roland Barthes

Magdalena Marciniak

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

In this paper I analyze several contexts in which the phenomenon of fear appears in Roland Barthes’ thinking In the first place, I will point out that Fear (written in capital letter in L’Image) placed “at the origin of everything”, becomes the fundamental fear, inseparable from the human condition. After all, for The Pleasure of the Text Barthes chose as its epigraph a quote by Thomas Hobbes ‘The only true passion in my life has been fear’, before introducing the idea of the proximity (identity?) of bliss and fear. Secondly, I will show that when Barthes writes about fear, he often refers to Donald Woods Winnicott’s article The Fear of Breakdown. In conclusion, I will point to an ambivalent status of fear in Barthes’s analysis: its recognition and acceptance are accompanied by desire for its
disappearance.


Key words: Roland Barthes, Fear, Donald Woods Winnicott




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Magdalena Nowotna: «Le sujet, son lieu, son temps Sémiotique et traduction littéraire» Paris-Louvain, Éditions Peeters, 2002, 207 p., ISBN 90-429- 1209-X

Krzysztof Jarosz

Langue: PL | Date de publication:



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Itinérance et métissage : pour une littérature qui se réinvente

Eileen Lohka

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Nomadism and hybridity (métissage) are two keys words when it comes to Creole island societies. J.M.G. Le Clézio, Édouard Maunick and Ananda Devi of Mauritius all explore memory and language to erase (often constructed) boundaries between past and present, reality and the imaginary, land and sea, French and Creole. It is a way to transgress literary canons. Their poetics favour liminal spaces, a plurality of voices and meanings and an openness to the Other that may offer a new way of reading works written in the in‑between space of exile — a condition becoming more and more common in today’s globalised world.


Key words: Mauritian Francophone Literature; nomadism; hybridity; poetics of liminality



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Doctor doctor, please, oh, the mess I’m in : la figure paternelle et le père figurant en tant que signe identificateur du fils nazi dans Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell

Magdalena Łachacz

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The article proposes a critical reading of the father figure in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones. While taking into account various interpretative contributions to the analysis of the
theme, formerly neglected and subjected to Julia Kristeva’s theory of abject mother, this article explores an alternative, esthetic, culturally oriented approach to the phenomenon. By grouping together father and a man who, in the absence of the former, takes power over the son, the story’s protagonist, the figure of the father can be understood as a key-symbol of a Nazi perpetrator’s identity. However, the article aims to show that this image can stem from the specific cultural context of contemporary representations of Nazism and influence today’s perception of the perpetrators.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

La polémique médiatique — le cas Darrieussecq

Katarzyna Kotowska

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Twice accused of plagiarism, Marie Darrieussecq repeats that for a writer, this kind of accusation is equal to a murder attempt. The case of Darrieussecq is a good example of how various media profit from quarrels between contemporary writers. In 1998, Marie NDiaye accused Darrieussecq of “monkeying” in her novel Naissance des fantômes. Later, in 2007, one of Darrieussecq’s colleagues from the P.O.L. Publishing House, Camille Laurens, referred to Tom est mort as ’psychological plagiarism’. This conflict was escalated by the media and followed a certain pattern: there was an accusation, an accuser and the victim.


Key words: Plagiarism, Darrieussecq, media.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Un rite catholique dans un quartier pauvre d’Alger, en 1923 : la communion de Jacques Cormery dans Le Premier Homme d’Albert Camus

Agnès Spiquel

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

In his autobiographical novel, which was left incomplete due to the author’s accidental death, Camus relates how Jacques Cormery, the protagonist, “receives his First Communion” in order to comply with the demand of his grandmother who wants this matter to be settled before he enters grammar school. It is a purely sociological rite in Jacques’s family. Though empty of meaning, and consequently negative for the child, this step is for him an opportunity to come in contact with mystery. This, however, does not develop in the direction of an intimation of transcendency but towards a deepening understanding of the quotidian mystery that his mother represents, and the obscure bond which unites him to her. Consequently, Camus thus explores the “horizontal transcendency” through which he attempts to elaborate on both his agnosticism and his sense of the sacred.


Key words: Albert Camus, autobiographical novel, sacredness/the sacred, agnosticism



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Femininity in the Position of the Oppressed in Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints A Comparison to Nelly Arcan’s Putain in Canadian and Quebec Literary Portrayals of Contemporary Womanhood

Ewa Drab

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

Nino Ricci, an award-winning English-speaking Italian descendant, and Nelly Arcan, suicidal Quebecker from Montreal, portray contemporary womanhood as seen through the lenses of oppression. In Ricci’s Lives of the Saints the figure of mother becomes a curse of the woman’s son, whose whole existence is conditioned by his mother’s incidental and adulterous pregnancy. The mother shifts from the position of an individual to the position of a symbol by becoming sinful representation of her disobedience in the relation to social rules. She is dominated by masculine gaze and rules established by men. Inversely acts Cynthia, the prostitute in Nelly Arcan’s Putain, who chooses her fate intentionally but who is equally conditioned by the social environment in which she grew up. Being a prostitute is an act of succumbing to masculine tyranny.

Key words: womanhood, oppressor, subjugation, Ricci, Arcan.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

La configuración ideológica del insularismo en el regionalismo español. El caso de La barraca de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Adriana Minardi

Langue: ES | Date de publication: | Résumé

This paper aims to study ideological configurations that arise from the effect of insularity in La barraca (belonging to the regionalist novel cycle) by Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. One of the main assumptions of this article is that the island effect is a narrative device which suggests regionalism as a class contradiction but also as a form of resistance against urban culture. The author of this article recognizes three rhetorical strategies employed by Ibáñez: mythemes dislocation, analysis of the effect of the Hegelian master / slave relationship, and the dialectic established between totem and taboo. In conclusion, the author focuses on the concept of politically peripheral nationalism.


Key words: regionalism, the bunkhouse, valencian huerta, peripheral nationalism



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Les âges de l’intelligence féminine dans les textes scientifiques et littéraires du XVIIIe siècle français : éléments d’une théorie androcentrique

Adeline Gargam

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Women’s Intelligence Ages in Scientific and Literary Texts of the French 18th Century : Elements of an Androcentric Theory

Women’s access to knowledge encountered the problem of legitimacy during the Enlightenment. According to 18th century doctors, invoking the so called natural features of women, this access was dependent on their ontogenesis. These scientific theories had a great impact on philosophical and literary works of the period. The examination of both discourses shows how they helped in creating the androcentric vision of women’s intellect, which is a world apart and subject to instabilities.

Key words: theories about feminity, intellect, womb, interferences between scientific and literary texts, androcentrism.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

La mort en ligne, le cimetière virtuel et l’architecture des rites funéraires postmodernes

Alina Ţenescu

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

This paper makes use of different disciplinary methodologies in order to analyze the issue of death and representation of funerary rites within the universe of the cyberspace, in order to propose a balanced integrative vision of the function and role of recurrent non‑places within the virtual space: the electronic cemeteries with their specific rituals. Starting from an anthropo‑semio‑semantic approach and using the comparatist method, the article analyzes the specificity of funerary rites (counter‑rituals) and ceremonies related to online memorials and electronic cemeteries pertaining to different cultural spaces (French, Romanian, Indian, English‑American and so on).

Key words: death, funerary rites, rituals, electronic cemeteries, online memorials, non‑places, postmodernism



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Réticences françaises à l’égard des Postcolonial Studies : entre le soubresaut républicain et le hoquet francophone

Michał Krzykawski

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The aim of this article is to analyze Francophony as a myth which is, according to Roland Barthes, “depoliticized speech” turning “the complexity of human acts” into “the simplicity of essences.” In Barthes’ way of approaching myth, I will try to demystify (demythologize) deep ideological structures of the Francophone discourse of universal and humanist values which seem to have never been reexamined in the francophone world so far. Now, if these values are similar to those preached by La République, which keeps believing that it has a monopoly on them, one can say that Francophony, whether we like it or not, is a political act. And that is not only in the sense of polis, as a community speaking the same language and recognizing the same values, but also in the sense of realpolitik, which needs to be understood as the continuation of an imperialistic gesture overshadowed by the neo-republican discourse of equality.


Key words:  Francophony, Myth, Mythologies, French Republic, Multiculturalism, French Theory.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Le père rejeté, le père rejetant chez Hervé Guibert et Yves Navarre

Anca Porumb

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The first-person narrative novels, Mes parents by Hervé Guibert and Biographie I, II by Yves Navarre, are part of the characters’ crisis writing where the reason of evil is always the father’s presence. Without hiding behind fictitious names, both writers reveal personal stories centered on the inevitable conflict between father and son. The family theme brings them together while their behavior makes them different. The first part of our study, “The Rejected Father,” focuses on Hervé Guibert’s violent language and attitude towards his father he will never accept. The second part, “The Rejecting Father,” is an analysis of Yves Navarre’s struggle of reconciliation with his father disappointed by his sexual preferences.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Filiation symbolique : le refus de la puissance paternelle dans Œdipe roi de Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sylwia Frach

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The parent–child relationship is omnipresent in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini. In Oedipus Rex, the filmmaker uses both the original myth and Sophocles’ tragedy to underline the fact that the father–son relationship is rooted in the Ancient World. Moreover, as will be depicted later on, Pasolini uses the work to evoke his personal experiences and artistic style. In this sense, the film is founded on psychoanalytic theories. Oedipus embodies the heart of Freudian thought: metahistorical hatred against the father, patricide and incest on the one hand, nostalgia and longing for the mother’s womb on the other. At the epicenter of this reflection lies the Oedipal theme of father–son relationship coupled with his digressions.



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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