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Reading Antelme With Levinas: Recreational Activities In Concentration Camps, Arwa Reda

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

Whether humanities humanize or not has always been a question that gathered both its proponents and opponents. Between those who confirm the statement and those who adamantly repudiate it, history has provided instances that simultaneously bear out both positions. Rather than attempting to prove or to deny the humanizing aspect of language and literature, this article looks at the matter from a different angle. Instead of the either-or argument, I propose the how as a bedrock of understanding the way humanities can humanize. Many camp survivors extolled what could be qualified as a redemptive force of language and literature. A …

La Terre Natale : À La Source De L’Écriture, Chez Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Michèle Druon

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium

"Mais le pays natal est moins une étendue qu’une matière ; c’est un granit ou une terre, un vent ou une sécheresse, une eau ou une lumière ; c’est par lui que notre rêve prend sa juste substance ; c’est à lui que nous demandons notre couleur fondamentale." --Gaston Bachelard, L’Eau et les Rêves.

Tout au long de son oeuvre, Colette a cherché à ressusciter dans ses textes le « paradis terrestre » de son pays natal, la Bourgogne, et le rêve profond qui lui est attaché. Déjà évoquée dans les scènes campagnardes du premier Claudine (Claudine à l’Ecole, …

Un Homme, Deux Cultures: Charles De Villers Entre France Et Allemagne (1765–1815) (Book Review), Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

“Le Soleil De France”: Warm Translations Of Guy De Maupassant In Works By Isaak Babel’ And Ivan Bunin, Cassio De Oliveira

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the wake of Lev Tolstoi’s appraisals of his work, Guy de Maupassant was embraced by Russian twentieth-century authors who admired his mastery of the short story. The Soviet writer Isaak Babel’ and the émigré writer Ivan Bunin reference stories and other texts by Maupassant in their stories ‘Guy de Maupassant’ and ‘Bernard’. To these authors, Maupassant constitutes a means of expressing their own outlook on the craft of literature. Mediated by the act of translation from French into Russian, Maupassant’s writing enables the Russian authors to articulate distinct identities regarding their national literature: as Soviet and émigré.

Effects Of Speech Cues In French-Speaking Children With Dysarthria, Erika S. Levy, Gemma Moya-Galé, Younghwa Michelle Chang, Luca Campanelli, Andrea A. N. Macleod, Sergio Escorial, Christelle Maillart

Publications and Research

Background: Articulatory excursion and vocal intensity are reduced in many children with dysarthria due to cerebral palsy (CP), contributing to the children’s intelligibility deficits and negatively affecting their social participation. However, the effects of speech-treatment strategies for improving intelligibility in this population are understudied, especially for children who speak languages other than English. In a cueing study on English-speaking children with dysarthria, acoustic variables and intelligibility improved when the children were provided with cues aimed to increase articulatory excursion and vocal intensity. While French is among the top 20 most spoken languages in the world, dysarthria and its management in …

William Newton Short, Jr. Papers, 1948-1997, William Newton Short Jr.

Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids

Finding aid for the William Newton Short, Jr. Papers, 1948-1997.

Migrant Necropolitics At The Table: "Civilized Cannibalism" In Mahi Binebine's Cannibales, Taïeb Berrada

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In Cannibales, the Maghrebi Francophone author Mahi Binebine revisits the encounter between the so-called “cannibals” and the European colonizer in the context of illegal immigration where bodies become commodities exchangeable for social improvements creating a different form of cannibalism. It is no longer the usual dichotomy between the civilized and the savage that is at work but rather a “civilized” European imperialist who feeds himself on a migrant’s flesh. This article argues that this representation works as a “colonial fragment” from the past but contextualized in today’s globalization. Binebine’s morbid depiction of an ambivalent postcolonial cannibalistic encounter translates as …

Working At The Bibliotheque Droit Letters: Perspectives From A Jsu Librarian In France, Carley Knight

Presentations, Proceedings & Performances

This presentation by Carley Knight discusses professional development leave in Burgundy, France during the academic year 2018-2019. She offers her perspective on professional development leave as well as what it was like to work in France during the Yellow Vest protests.

Amjambo Africa! (February 2020), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Free English classes in Portland.. p.4

From Jordan to Maine............... p.13

Legislative Update.................... p.16

Failures Of Grace: Limits Of Tragedy In The Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Failures of Grace argues that nineteenth-century novelists challenge the hegemonies of literary form and the value of personal suffering through what I call the trans-genre tragic novel. This new form is emblematic of a period in which values hang in the balance and places traditional values at odds with themselves by combining the low form of the novel with the highest mimetic mode in the Western tradition: tragedy. It simultaneously proposes the most vulnerable members of society as tragic heroes in contrast to the noble figures who previously were presumed to define the genre.

Through close readings of works by …

Out Of Home: Social Class In Women’S Writing, 1950–2016, Lisa M. Karakaya

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Out of Home: Social Class in Women’s Writing 1950 – 2016 employs an intersectional feminist and critical race theory methodology to examine social class in relation to gendered and racial subjugations in the work of selected French and francophone women authors across diverse regions. This dissertation features Annie Ernaux’s texts in the introduction, and then the colonial societies of French Indonesia and Algeria as depicted by narrators in the position of colonizers in the first two chapters. In the last two chapters, post-colonial or settler societies of Guadeloupian and Québécois texts are shown as depicted by colonized or marginalized narrators. …

Level 2: La Rentreé / Back To School, Ashley Ayala, Grace Holland

The Global Library

To you, young reader, I dedicate this book. May it encourage you to read, read, and read again!

My name is Grace. I am a student at Kennesaw State University. I live in Georgia in the United States. I study biology to become a doctor. I love animals, I have two dogs.

My name is Ashley. I am a student at Kennesaw State University. I live in the United States, but my parents are from Peru. I study biology because I want to become a doctor. I'm learning French because I would like to help people all around the world. …

Level 1: Ma Grande Famille / My Big Family, Cody Barnes, Moriah Boynton

The Global Library

To you young reader we dedicate this book. May he encourage you to read, read and re-read again.

About the Authors:

My name is Cody Barnes. I am nineteen years old. I am a student at Kennesaw State University. I play ultimate frisbee for college.

My name is Moriah Boynton. I am eighteen years old. I am a student at Kennesaw State University too. My main subject at university is psychology.

À toi jeune lecteur nous dédions ce livre. Puisse-t-il t’inciter à lire, lire et relire encore.

À propos des auteurs:

Je m’appelle Cody Barnes. J’ai dix-neuf ans. Je suis …

Les Jeunesses En France: Économie, Culture, Sociologie, Christiane Métral

French Studies: Faculty Books

Part of a collection of articles focusing on the issues facing contemporary France.

Level 1: La Famille De Samuel / Samuel's Family, Rodrigo Mendoza

The Global Library

To you, young reader, I dedicate this book. May it encourage you to read, read, and read again!

Hello, my name is Rodrigo Mendoza. I am American. I study engineering at Kennesaw State University. I love science, reading, and working.

A toi jeune lecteur je dédie ce livre. Puisse-t-il t'inciter à lire, lire et relire encore !

Bonjour je m'appelle Rodrigo Mendoza. Je suis américain. J'étudie l'ingénierie à Kennesaw State University. J'aime la science. J'aime lire. J'aime travailler.

Level 1: Ma Famille / My Family, Jaydah Christian

The Global Library

I dedicate this book to my family.

Hello! My name is Jaydah Christian. I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm eighteen years old. I have brown hair and brown eyes. I am funny, polite, happy, and charming. I go to KSU. I study management. I like studying during the weekend and meeting up with my friends.

Je dédie ce livre à ma famille.

Bonjour ! Je m'appelle Jaydah Christian. J'habite à Atlanta, Georgia. J'ai dix-huit ans. J'ai les cheveux bruns et les yeux marron. Je suis amusante, polie, heureuse, et charmante. Je vais à KSU. J'étudie la gestion. J'aime étudier le …

Amjambo Africa! (January 2020), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Transportation planning ...........p. 2

Celebrating Diversity in Maine .p. 3

Opinion on refugee numbers....p. 4

Jamat Ibrahim dreams big..........p. 9

In Her Kitchen ...........................p. 10

Lewiston author pens children’s book.........................p. 13

Food Co-op and MAIN ............p. 18

World Affairs Council...............p. 19

Youth Get Together..................p. 19

Towards Modeling Second Dialect Speech Learning: The Production Of Bogota [S] In Ciudad Bolivar By Speakers Of Three Different Varieties Of Colombian Spanish, Cenaida Gómez, Jeff Tennant, Yasaman Rafat

French Studies Publications

This study investigates the second dialect production of Bogota Spanish /s/ in coda position by speakers of three different varieties of Colombian Spanish, who have been in contact in Ciudad Bolivar, a community located in Bogota, Colombia. The study has three aims. First, it will examine the role of phonetic distance in the acquisition of /s/ production. Second, it will determine the linguistic factors that constrain the realization of /s/ sound by the speakers of the three varieties studied. Third, it will look into the role of extralinguistic factors in the production of /s/. A total of 2322 tokens extracted …

“The Very Essence Of French Cinema”(?): Jacques Feyder’S Return To France, 1944–1948, Barry Nevin

Articles

No abstract provided.

Framing “L’Âme Des Personnages”: Performance And Affect In Jacques Feyder’S Pension Mimosas (1935), Barry Nevin

Articles

Although Jacques Feyder's authorial control over his productions and his direction of actors constituted two of the most widely appreciated aspects of his approach to filmmaking during his own lifetime, the impact of each on his mise en scene has received little critical attention. This article aims to remedy this oversight by linking both aspects in three stages: first, drawing on contemporary periodicals, recollections of Feyder's performers and his own writings, it illustrates Feyder's preoccupation with the creation of in-depth psychological portraits through his actors; second, focusing on Pension Mimosas (1935), it demonstrates that Feyder's technical style, although aligned closely …