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Review Of Michèle Vallenthini, “Sade Dans L’Histoire: Du Temps De La Fiction À La Fiction Du Temps,” The French Review, 93, 4, May 2020, 216., Olivier M. Delers
Review Of Michèle Vallenthini, “Sade Dans L’Histoire: Du Temps De La Fiction À La Fiction Du Temps,” The French Review, 93, 4, May 2020, 216., Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
"Vallenthini offers an in-depth study of three historical novels written by the Marquis de Sade towards the end of his life while he was confined at the Charenton mental asylum. Sade started drafting La marquise de Gange in 1806 and published it in 1812, around the same time when he began work on Adélaïde de Brunswick and Histoire secrète d’Isabelle de Bavière, two works that only became available in print in the twentieth century. These novels have generally received limited critical attention."
Behind The Immediacy, The Nodal Points In The Congolese Story: Two Generations Of Writers, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Behind The Immediacy, The Nodal Points In The Congolese Story: Two Generations Of Writers, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
La première génération des écrivains congolais de l' ére postcoloniale a traité du déséquilibre éprouvé par toute la société au lendemain de l'indépendance. Aussitôt que le glas de la liberté a retenti, les troubles sociaux, en partie causés á l'instigation de l'ancienne autorité coloniale, mirent á feu et á sang plusieurs zones de la nation. L'indépendance cha cha chantée dans l'euphorie géné-rale par Joseph Kabasele et l'African Jazz, chanson devenue méto-nymie auditive de cette période de liberation, ne donna suite qu'á des célébrations éphèméres suivies de crises sociales déchirantes.
Slumming With Cindy: Class, Precarity, And Performance In Cindy Aus Marzahn’S Trash Comedy, Kathrin M. Bower
Slumming With Cindy: Class, Precarity, And Performance In Cindy Aus Marzahn’S Trash Comedy, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
The restructuring of unemployment and welfare benefits under Hartz IV hit former East Germans already suffering economically since unification particularly hard, forcing many into a condition of precarity for which the governing ideology held them responsible. Frustrated in her search for suitable work, Ilka Bessin adapted the self-management model advocated by the reforms to transform her story of marginalization and failure into a comedy success as Ossi trash princess Cindy aus Marzahn. Cultivated by commercial television, Bessin’s Cindy was a product, purveyor, and critic of Germany’s neoliberal economic policies, illustrating the fraught, collusive relationship between politics and popular culture.
Review Of: Falaky, Fayçal. Social Contract, Masochistic Contract: Aesthetics Of Freedom 252 And Submission In Rousseau., Olivier M. Delers
Review Of: Falaky, Fayçal. Social Contract, Masochistic Contract: Aesthetics Of Freedom 252 And Submission In Rousseau., Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
"The strength of this work resides in the fact that it is not just an important contribution to the fields of Rousseau studies. As the title indicates, the book is a reflection on the masochistic tendencies that can be detected in all of Rousseau’s important texts."
The Genetics Of Morality: Policing Science In Dudintsev’S White Robes, Yvonne Howell
The Genetics Of Morality: Policing Science In Dudintsev’S White Robes, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
The Men and women in White Robes (Belye odezhdv), Vladimir Dudinstev's fictional account of the banning of genetics in the Soviet Union, are acutely aware that in the 20th century, the study of the fruit fly is the study of man. The key to unraveling the mystery of human nature lies in the easily observed chromosomes of the forbidden fly (drosophila melanogaster). Under Stalin, the banned geneticists were branded “Morganists” after their hero Thomas Hunt Morgan, the Columbia University researcher who pioneered the technique of mapping locations on drosophila chromosomes to specific traits in the flies. To …
Learning To Live With The Other Germany In The Post-Wall Federal Republic, Kathrin M. Bower
Learning To Live With The Other Germany In The Post-Wall Federal Republic, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
After forty years of separation, neither the West Germans nor the East Germans were prepared for the impact of reunification. But had the peoples of the two countries developed separate cultural identities to such an extent that the dissolution of the border represented merely the illusion of a return to sociocultural community? Since the collapse of the East German state in 1989 and the subsequent suturing of divided Germany in 1990, scores of books and articles have been published on the economic and political conditions that led inexorably, or less so, to the demise of the GDR, as well as …
Whimsical Pornography: Albert Dubout's Illustrations For Sade's Justine, Olivier M. Delers
Whimsical Pornography: Albert Dubout's Illustrations For Sade's Justine, Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
In Dangereux supplement: I 'illustration du roman en France au dixhuitieme siecle, Christophe Martin explains that images were generally considered to be dangerous additions to a text, because they could not be limited to their intended primary purpose: to provide a visual translation for characters and events depicted in works of fiction.1 For even as they illustrate, images also offer a reading that necessarily shapes the reader's perception of a novel. In the process, the images themselves become texts with their own complex system of signification. As such "supplements" go, illustrations of Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade's novels …
A Clash Of Fictions: Geopolitics In Recent Russian And Ukrainian Literature, Yvonne Howell
A Clash Of Fictions: Geopolitics In Recent Russian And Ukrainian Literature, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
When the vast, multinational Soviet empire collapsed in 1991, the geopolitical structure it had struggled to maintain for most of the 20111 century - often by means of brutal repression and forced remobilization of entire populations - proved itself in the eyes of many to be fatally out of sync with the epochal norm of the nation-state. By the end of the 18th century, people in many parts of the world had begun to "imagine themselves" as nations and to organize politically into states whose primary function would be to protect, nurture, and (in a kind of Romantic feedback loop) …
Garry Winogrand, Family Intimacies, Joseph C. Troncale
Garry Winogrand, Family Intimacies, Joseph C. Troncale
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
We are pleased to present this exhibition of photographs by Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984). A photographer of New York City and of American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s, the content and dynamic style of his images placed him among the most influential photographers of the period. The legendary curator and critic John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation, and Winogrand is widely considered one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century.
From ‘Sots-Romanticism’ To Rom-Com: The Strugatskys’ Monday Begins On Saturday As A Film Comedy, Yvonne Howell
From ‘Sots-Romanticism’ To Rom-Com: The Strugatskys’ Monday Begins On Saturday As A Film Comedy, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
The Strugatskii brothers’ novella Ponedel’nik nachinaetsia v subbotu (Monday Begins on Saturday; 1965) imagines bright young scientists working at the cutting edge between quantum physics and folktale sorcery in a setting that was undeniably contemporary and local. I argue that the story can be best understood as ‘soc(ialist) romanticism’ – an aesthetic mode that celebrates the possibilities for individual questing and agency in late Soviet socialism. Konstantin Bromberg’s 1982 adaptation of the Strugatskiis’s story abandons both the romanticism and complexity of the novella, but, by incorporating elements of the‘youth film’, it represents a different kind of Soviet rom-com.
Du Mythe Au Dialogue: Sade Et L'Érotisme Surréaliste, Olivier M. Delers
Du Mythe Au Dialogue: Sade Et L'Érotisme Surréaliste, Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
Avec la peinture, la photographie et le dessin, le surréalisme parvient progressivement à s'éloigner d'une conception trop idéologique du travail de Sade et à engager un dialogue à la fois esthétique et politique entre l'univers érotique surréaliste et la représentation sadienne d'une sexualité qui s'affranchit de toute norme sociale. Man Ray, par l'étendue et la variété des sujets qu'il traite, fait office de figure centrale dans ce mouvement du mythe au dialogue. De ses portraits « imaginaires » du Marquis, à l'illustration du roman Aline et Valcour, aux photographies de figurines en bois faisant référence à des thématiques sadiennes, …
Made In Germany: Integration As Inside Joke In The Ethno-Comedy Of Kaya Yanar And Bülent Ceylan, Kathrin M. Bower
Made In Germany: Integration As Inside Joke In The Ethno-Comedy Of Kaya Yanar And Bülent Ceylan, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
As the largest “foreign” population in Germany, Turkish immigrants have been the primary target for concerns about integration and the impact of immigration on German culture. Since the founding of the first Turkish German cabaret in 1985 by Şinasi Dikmen and Muhsin Omurca, the misconceptions and one-sided expectations associated with integration have been played, parodied, and satirized by Turkish German performers. As producers of contemporary ethno-comedy, Kaya Yanar and Bülent Ceylan appeal to mass audiences with a new approach, inverting questions of integration by creating communities through laughter in which audiences are at once in on the joke and its …
The Invention Of The Native Speaker, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
The Invention Of The Native Speaker, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
This paper argues that employing the designations “native speaker” and “native language” unreflectively is to engage in a gesture of othering that operates on an axis of empowerment and disempowerment. Bonfiglio examines the ideological legacy of the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “native speaker” by historicizing their linguistic development. He traces the construction of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race, which informed the philology of the early modern era and culminated most divisively in the race-conscious discourses of the 19th century. Bonfiglio makes the case that scholarship should scrutinize the tendency to …
Piège Ou Mésaventure, Ordres Des Connaissances Et Des Croyances En Rivalité : Échos Dans Deux Œuvres De V. Y. Mudimbe, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Piège Ou Mésaventure, Ordres Des Connaissances Et Des Croyances En Rivalité : Échos Dans Deux Œuvres De V. Y. Mudimbe, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
Cependant, même l'action résultant de la Convention de 1906 entre le Saint Siège-signée par de Cuvelier et Monseigneur Vico-et ce qui était l'État Indépendant du Congo, jugée mieux Iotie à certains égards, elle souffrait des mêmes carences que les enseignements dispensés par d'autres organisations confessionnelles. En l'absence d'une politique cohérente suivie, ce mariage noué entre deux partenaires de circonstances, la religion et l'enseignement des connaissances, menait vers des avatars, et pourquoi pas vers des crises identitaires qui sourderont plus tard avec force. Ma communication traite de cette disparité d'abstraction et de la crise identitaire d'une collusion mal assortie dont la …
The Transcendent As Theatre In Roerich's Paintings, Joseph C. Troncale
The Transcendent As Theatre In Roerich's Paintings, Joseph C. Troncale
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
It would not be an exaggeration to say that much of Russian artistic culture in the first two decades of the 20th century was theatricalised. The work that Russian painters did in the theatre was intimately integrated and synthesised with all of the other elements of a production. Many artists of the World of Art Movement were instrumental in revolutionising the theatrical arts in Russia at the invitation and under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev. Following the pioneering steps of Konstantin Korovin, many artists, including Nicholas Roerich, Alexander Benois, Leon Bakst, Mstislav Dobuzhinski and later the avant-garde painters Natalia Goncharova, …
The Prostitute As Neo-Manager: Sade's Juliette And The New Spirit Of Capitalism, Olivier M. Delers
The Prostitute As Neo-Manager: Sade's Juliette And The New Spirit Of Capitalism, Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
In fact, Juliette's actions reveal a fundamental truth about the underlying social and economic structures of Sade's universe: the existence of two different groups, one composed of exploiters who are mobile, adaptable and connected, and the other formed by the exploited, who are condemned to a life of suffering and vagabondage. This division is also characteristic of what theorists have called 'modern network economies' and my analysis will explore the continuities between prostitution in Sade's fictional society and the nature of the post-industrial world as described by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello in a recent study, Ihe …
Serdar Somuncu: Reframing Integration Through A Transnational Politics Of Satire, Kathrin M. Bower
Serdar Somuncu: Reframing Integration Through A Transnational Politics Of Satire, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
Founded by Şinasi Dikmen and Muhsin Omurcu in Ulm in 1985, Knobi-Bonbon is widely recognized as the first Turkish German cabaret in the Federal Republic. Dikmen and Omurcu focused on ethnic stereotypes, integration, and coexistence in their early programs, with an emphasis on the German misunderstanding of integration as cultural assimilation (Boran 202, 219). With a run of successful performances, Knobi-Bonbon established a momentum that has carried through to the present day, making Turkish German comedy a fixture on the German stage. Responding to the wave of nationalism and xenophobia that followed in the wake of unification, Knobi-Bonbon’s shows became …
Claude De France, Mere/Mer De Verueuse Memoire, Lidia Radi
Claude De France, Mere/Mer De Verueuse Memoire, Lidia Radi
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
En 1517, Pierre Gringore met en scène Ies spectacles de rue pour l'Entree de la royne [Claude] de France a Paris faicte le mardy XII. jour du mays de May. L'an de grace mil cinq cens et XVII.2 Un an plus tard Guillaume Michel, dit de Tours,3 reprend Ia plupart des personnages représentés dans Ies spectacles de Gringore et Ies fait défiler dans son Soulas de Noblesse sus le coronnement de la Rayne de France Claude (1518), qui est Ia dernière pièce de son Penser de Royal Memoire, ouvrage à visée politique et religieuse, dédié …
Serdar Somuncu: Turkish German Comedy As Transnational Intervention, Kathrin M. Bower
Serdar Somuncu: Turkish German Comedy As Transnational Intervention, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
A reconceptualization of Germanness, combined with a reconsideration of what constitutes “Germanness” and “Turkishness” and how they are linked, is a central theme in the programs of a younger generation of Turkish German cabaret artists and comedians. As a member of the new generation of performers, Serdar Somuncu stands out, not only for his unapologetic embrace of political theater critical of both German and Turkish social politics, but also for his assertion of a right and responsibility to engage with Germany’s past, coupled with an insistence on differentiation and balanced comparison when discussing integration. After gaining notoriety through his Mein …
Minority Identity As German Identity In Conscious Rap And Gangsta Rap: Pushing The Margins, Redefining The Center, Kathrin M. Bower
Minority Identity As German Identity In Conscious Rap And Gangsta Rap: Pushing The Margins, Redefining The Center, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
After rap entered the German music scene in the 1980s, it developed into a variety of styles that reflect Germany's increasingly multiethnic social fabric. Politically conscious rap assumed greater relevance after unification, focusing on issues of discrimination, integration, and xenophobia. Gangsta rap, with its emphasis on street conflict and violence, brought the ghetto to Germany and sparked debates about the condition of German cities and the erosion of civic consciousness. Alternately celebrated and reviled by the media, both styles utilize rap's synthesis of authenticity and performance to redefine the relationship between minority identity and German identity and debunk Leitkultur.
Ferdinand Oyono, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Ferdinand Oyono, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
Ferdinand Oyono was a Cameroonian statesman and a Francophone novelist of the first generation of African writers who became active after World War II. He entered the literary scene at a time when writers such as his fellow Cameroonian Mongo Beti and the Senegalese Sembene Ousmane and Leopold Sedar Senghor were at their peak. Oyono and Mongo Beti are known as "the forefathers of modern African Identity" for their anticolonial novels.
Une Nouvelle Voix Narrative À La Recherche De Son « Moi », Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Une Nouvelle Voix Narrative À La Recherche De Son « Moi », Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
Trente ans après les crises d'indépendances, l'Afrique a connu des secousses particulièrement paralysantes dont le prix en vies humaines se mesure au nombre élevé de personnes décimées par des fléaux tels que la famine, les épurations ethniques, les guerres, les génocides et la mauvaise gouvernance. Devant cette tragique situation, l'art, en tant qu'expression du beau, se vide de son attrait sous la pesanteur de l'anormal (l'horreur) qui nécessite, sinon une réparation imminente, tout au moins une dénonciation immédiate. Se sentant abandonnée à son propre sort - l'élite a misérablement échoué - le petit personnage issu du peuple, le délinquant, le …
The Liberal Gene: Sociobiology As Emancipatory Discourse In The Late Soviet Union, Yvonne Howell
The Liberal Gene: Sociobiology As Emancipatory Discourse In The Late Soviet Union, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
In the following analysis, we will find that Soviet sociobiology did not develop incrementally out of daring interdisciplinary probes; rather, it seemed to spring forth fully formulated in the comprehensive Novyi mir article. Moreover, already in 1971, several years before Wilson's book established its controversial eponymous discipline in the United States, the biosocial paradigm was framed by its earliest Soviet proponents as a scientific vindication for diversity, pluralism, individual difference, heterogeneity, human rights, and ultimately, individual responsibility for one's own actions. In short, the same scientific discipline that in the west was associated with racism, reductionism, and social determinism developed …
Baring The Brain As Well As The Soul: Milan Kundera's The Joke, Yvonne Howell
Baring The Brain As Well As The Soul: Milan Kundera's The Joke, Yvonne Howell
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
In what follows, I will argue that two current theories about how our minds ascribe intentional psychological states to other people (so-called Theory of Mind) as well as to non-personal events that happen to us (a proposed Existential Theory of Mind) provide a rich interpretive framework for understanding the social and historical context of Kundera’s innovative aesthetics.
Poem (Film Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Poem (Film Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
POEM is the feature-length debut for Ralf Schmerberg, a self-taught photographer and filmmaker known for his music videos of German bands Die Toten Hosen and Die Fantastischen Vier and his imaginative television commercials. Schmerberg and his collaborator, the writer Antonia Keinz, spent two years reading poetry to determine the final selection of 19 poems for the film project. The concept of creating a film devoted to visual interpretations of poetry was intriguing enough to attract big name actors, including Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meret Becker, Hannelore Elsner, Jürgen Vogel, and Hermann van Veen, as well as camera men who previously had …
La Rhétorique De La Persuasion Dans Le Penser De Royal Mémoire De Guillaume Michel, Dit De Tours, Lidia Radi
La Rhétorique De La Persuasion Dans Le Penser De Royal Mémoire De Guillaume Michel, Dit De Tours, Lidia Radi
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
En 1518, chez Jehan de la Garde et Pierre le Brodeur, paraît un recueil ayant pour titre Le Penser de Royal Mémoire, composé d´une douzaine de pièces dont la plupart sont des épîtres. La taille de chacune de ces compositions varie selon son propos, et aussi selon la fonction qu´elle remplit dans la structure de l´oeuvre. Chaque pièce a un caractère à la fois didactique et épidictique. La plupart sont adressées au jeune roi François 1er, pour l´inciter à se lancer dans la croisade proclamée par le pape Léon X, avec qui il signe un nouveau Concordat2 …
À La Recherche Du «Bourgeois»: Drame Sérieux Et Tentations Narratives Chez Diderot, Olivier M. Delers
À La Recherche Du «Bourgeois»: Drame Sérieux Et Tentations Narratives Chez Diderot, Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
Dans le drame bourgeois de Diderot, il n'y a pas de « bourgeois». Pas de personnages bourgeois (par exemple, pas de M. Jourdain ou de Turcaret dans le rôle du bourgeois à ridiculiser), pas de valeurs bourgeoises (qui sont après tout une invention du XIXe siècle), pas d'esprit de groupe bourgeois - de conscience de classe - qui unirait et distinguerait les protagonistes du Fils naturel (1757) et du Pere de famille (1758). Béatrice Didier, dans son Diderot dramaturge du vivant, remarque ce flottement conceptuel sans pour autant s'en distancer : « il s'agit de représenter la vie …
Don, Obligation Et Reconnaissance Dans Les Lettres D’Une Péruvienne De Graffigny, Olivier M. Delers
Don, Obligation Et Reconnaissance Dans Les Lettres D’Une Péruvienne De Graffigny, Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
La critique, des deux cotés de l’Atlantique, est restée étrangement silencieuse sur le rôle central que joue le don – ainsi que la dette de gratitude qu’il instaure – dans la progression narrative du roman et le développement émotionnel de l’héroïne. Le thème du don, quand il est mentionné, reste souvent cantonné à un rôle mineur, sans qu’on ne tienne compte de son importance systémique. Anne Dugan, par exemple, remarque que Zilia décrit une société où le lien qui régit les relations interpersonnelles n’est plus lié à des principes éthiques, ce qui encourage des formes d’échange basées, plus ou moins …
Protest Song In East And West Germany Since The 1960s (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Protest Song In East And West Germany Since The 1960s (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
While the title of this nine-essay anthology focuses on the protest song from the 1960s and beyond, one of key elements of the book is an examination of the legacy of the Vormärz revolutionary songs and political cabaret of the Weimar Republic in the repertoire of West-German and East-German Liedermacher. The first two chapters by David Robb offer a differentiated analysis of how the Vormärz and early twentieth-century political song traditions were adopted and adapted in the FRG and the GDR and how the resulting high/low culture blend of the political song enhanced its appeal. The third chapter, also …
La Socialité En Chaîne Et En Réseau Dans Les Egarements Du Cœur Et De L’Esprit De Crébillon Fils, Olivier M. Delers
La Socialité En Chaîne Et En Réseau Dans Les Egarements Du Cœur Et De L’Esprit De Crébillon Fils, Olivier M. Delers
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
L’importance politique de l’oeuvre de Sade n’est plus à démontrer – on peut citer en exemple les analyses d’Adorno et Horkheimer sur Justine ou plus récemment le travail de Frances Ferguson sur la nature de l’action chez Sade. Colette Cazenobe a quant à elle ouvert la voie d’une lecture politique de Crébillon dans son Crébillon fils ou la politique dans le boudoir. J’aimerai ici ouvrir un autre filon dans l’interprétation des textes de Crébillon en m’appuyant sur le travail critique effectué par Roland Barthes dans son Sade, Fourrier, Loyola. En fin lecteur des implications théoriques de la fiction …