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A Metropolitan French Isolate In North America: The French Language In Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon, Marc Cormier
A Metropolitan French Isolate In North America: The French Language In Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon, Marc Cormier
Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies
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France Within Louisiana Law, Government, And Media, Nicolas Garon
France Within Louisiana Law, Government, And Media, Nicolas Garon
Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies
No abstract provided.
Entre Ombre Et Lumière : L’Artifice Et La Réflexion Sociétale Dans La Princesse Maleine De Maeterlinck, Anoosheh Ghaderi
Entre Ombre Et Lumière : L’Artifice Et La Réflexion Sociétale Dans La Princesse Maleine De Maeterlinck, Anoosheh Ghaderi
Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies
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Elgin's "Native Tongue": A "Me Too" Universe?, Amir Barati
Elgin's "Native Tongue": A "Me Too" Universe?, Amir Barati
Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies
Suzette Haden Elgin’s novel Native Tongue (1984) provides a fascinating critique of the ideologies inscribed into patriarchal language and evokes an extremely valuable linguistic and political awareness. This article will examine the liability of the ways the novel revolts against the patriarchal society via the introduction of a gynocentric linguistic intervention. I claim, Elgin’s novel showcases an invaluable instance of how it is possible for women to revolt against the pillars of patriarchy through manipulations at the gestalt and schematic level of language and most specifically, the bodily metaphoric quality of the English. This proposed transformation of the schematic and …
Writing Desire On The Lesbian Body: Baudelaire’S Fantasies And Vivien’S Realities, Emily Wieder
Writing Desire On The Lesbian Body: Baudelaire’S Fantasies And Vivien’S Realities, Emily Wieder
Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies
In The Flowers of Evil [Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)], French poet Charles Baudelaire paints three female bodies: the mistress, the prostitute, and the lesbian. The latter appears in three of one-hundred poems but so captivated Baudelaire that he almost titled the collection The Lesbians. Censors nevertheless condemned the anthology and suppressed two of the lesbian poems. The remaining lesbian poem compares the “damned women” to “thoughtful cattle.” A rare representation of lesbian bodies, this metaphor problematically depicts them as savage.
Yet this “Other” exemplifies the baudelairean poetic ideal. By crafting Beauty, the Poet immortalizes his corpus. As the …