Décentrement(s), Théories et pratiques d’un concept nomade
Edited by Elodie Gallet, Geneviève Guétemme and Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal
Hermann, 2024, IBSN: 9791037040763
“Decentering” is a central tool of our modernity, used to question the limits of disciplines, knowledge and discourse. How does decentering manifest itself? What is gained by losing the center? What concrete or symbolic traces remain after the relegation of a center? We hypothesize that decentering, in its material, memorial and monumental forms, is a way of thinking about transculturalism and interdisciplinarity.
FLAMME "Equilibre(s) en études civilisationnelles" Special edition N° 2
Edited by Elodie Gallet and Lucie Genay
September 2024, ISSN: 2802-7329
L’Entre-deux N° 15(2), Écriture et politique : Jorge Semprun
Edited by Jaime Céspedes
July 2024, ISSN: 2552-7665
Polar et émeraude noire, Portrait(s) de l'Irlande à travers le roman policier
Thierry Robin
Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024, ISBN: 978275394807
Writing history always means conducting a meticulous investigation, starting with the facts and their objective traces, and dissociating them from representations and memories that are necessarily more debatable. Ireland is a land where memory issues are as complex as they are powerful. This book explores the genesis of a literary genre, the detective novel, which is currently enjoying resounding success in Ireland and around the world. It thus takes the form of a Russian doll: an investigation into a genre in which the investigation is at the heart of the issues and narrative devices, in an Ireland profoundly changed since 1916.
Quatre garçons dans la guerre d’Espagne (1936-1939)
Ruthe Rewald
Translated by Danielle Risterucci-Roudnicky
L’Harmattan, 2024, ISBN: 9782336438276
Between 1936 and 1939, against a backdrop of fighting between the Republican militia, supported by the International Brigades, and Franco's Fascist army, backed by Mussolini and Hitler, four young Spaniards, aged between 10 and 13, courageously resist the oppression of a regime founded on terror and destruction. They choose to fight for freedom, equality and education.
This novel about the Spanish War, in which the children are unwillingly embroiled, is an invitation to reflect on the direct and collateral damage of warmongering ambitions, the ambivalence of certain forms of resistance, and the different ways of defending an ideal. At a time when war, both a reality and a threat, is upsetting the balance of peace, this book, like all Ruth Rewald's others, resonates with the concerns of young people and adults today.
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Revue Française d'Études Américaines N° 179, Une nation tranquille (1815-1860)
Edited by Pierre Gervais, Augustin Habran, Auréliane Narvaez and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
Belin, 2024, ISBN: 9782410029239, 25€
Founded in 1976, the Revue Française d'Études Américaines (French Review of American Studies) brings together scholarly articles on North American studies, in the fields of literature, arts, social sciences and humanities. Quarterly issues are organized thematically. They also include off-theme articles, points of view, bibliographical summaries and interviews.
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Japon pluriel 14 – Périphéries et centres, Actes du quatorzième colloque de la Société française des études japonaises
Edited by Aline Henninger and Mayumi Shimosakai
Published by Picquier, 2024, ISBN: 9782809716498, 25€
Since 1995, the Japon Pluriel series has presented the current state of Japanese research in the French-speaking world by publishing the proceedings of the biennial colloquium of the Société française des études japonaises. This volume, the fourteenth in the series, reports on the research presented at the University of Orléans in December 2021 during the SFEJ colloquium on the theme of “Peripheries and Centers”. The contributions gathered in this volume question the notions of centers and peripheries, in order to take into consideration the lesser-known aspects of Japanese history, whether they have been marginalized for methodological reasons or passed over in silence for political reasons. This fourteenth edition thus provides a better understanding of the social, political, urban, economic and cultural transformations at work in Japanese history, through sixty-one articles reflecting the current state of Japanese research in the French-speaking world. This issue also focuses on issues relating to the teaching of Japanese in the French school and university system.
