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A double nightmare of racist violence in bande dessinée and film: Cauchemar Blanc (Moebius, 1974 and Kassovitz, 1991) by Defever, Elke

“…The following article offers a comparative, contextualized analysis of two versions of Cauchemar Blanc: its initial iteration as a bande dessinée published in…”
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Survival and speechlessness in Malabou: Oedipus or Eurydice? by Aigner, Eva-Maria

“…How to speak of wounding, of survival? Regarding a new “recently adopted apocalyptic tone in philosophy” and the multiple crises of the twenty-first century…”
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Reimagining postcolonial identities: The Blancs-Matignon of Guadeloupe by Ramakrishnan, Mahadevi

“…Mariette Monpierre's and Michel Reinette’s 2022 documentary, Les Derniers Blancs Matignon de Guadeloupe, and Estelle-Sarah Bulle’s 2018 novel, Là, où les…”
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Interrogating double absence in transclasse autobiography: Postcolonial identity in flux in Kaoutar Harchi's Comme nous existons by Sumner, Maddison

“…In 2014, philosopher Chantal Jaquet coined the term transclasse to describe a person who is in the process of changing their social class. In opposition to the…”
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The carceral in Tunisian popular culture by Chamekh, Mohamed

“…This article makes use of James Scott's theory of ‘hidden transcripts’ to study cultural works and relevant writings that document the history of the carceral…”
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Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas in English: On putting the record straight… and queering it? by Bradford, Terry J.

“…This article is part of a wider project investigating the theory and practice of song translation and performance. It derives – specifically – from my own…”
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Rethinking haute couture: Julien Fournié in the virtual worlds of the metaverse by Armitage, John

“…This article deals with the concept and practice of haute couture, of the designing and making of high-quality fashion clothes, and haute couture's…”
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Phenomenology and its phantoms: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Leiris by Noland, Carrie

“…My essay focuses on the figure of the phantom in the work of phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the ethnographer Michel Leiris. I study their evocation…”
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Wonder and loss in Céline Sciamma's Petite maman by Lachman, Kathryn M

“…This article reads Céline Sciamma's 2021 film Petite maman in relation to the widespread isolation and loss experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. The film…”
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Éléments de transferts culturels franco-vietnamiens dans la revue Bách Khoa de Saigon by Pham, Van Quang

“…The purpose of this article is to examine French literary and philosophical cultural transfers to South Vietnam through the journal Bách Khoa. This study is…”
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'C’est comme ça qu’on fabrique des automobiles': Race, work, and colonial afterlives in Robert Linhart's L’Établi by Lyons, Patrick James

“…Robert Linhart's L’Établi recounts the author's experience of ‘établissement’ as a young Maoist militant in the months immediately following May ‘68. Ten years…”
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“Original sufferhead”: The boy-child and masculine sufferings in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé and Les Soleils des Indépendances by Jemiluyi, Omotayo Ajileye

“…Revered as one of the principal figures of contemporary African literature and one of the greatest francophone writers, the celebrated Ivorian author; Ahmadou…”
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Creepypasta and “the Fabrègues Affair”: Imitation and aggression in a recent case of youth violence by Curtis, Ian Williams

“…This article offers a critical analysis of “the Fabrègues Affair” (2022), a case of youth violence in which two twelve-year-old girls carried out a series of…”
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Generating desire: Chocolate, chromolithographs, and Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy's fairy tales by Duggan, Anne E.

“…There existed a fascinating means of collecting fairy tales in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that has hitherto remained unexplored: the…”
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Theatricality, cine-choreography, and kinaesthetic empathy in Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet by Byrne, Sebastian

“…This article explores the bodily and affective dimensions of Hafsia Herzi's belly dance performance in Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet, as a way of…”
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The pursuit of luxury as an act of transgression: Bataille, sovereignty, desire by Armitage, John

“…Through concepts such as the act of transgression, the idea of the pursuit of luxury can be radically transformed by reconsidering the work of the French…”
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Criminalizing Muslim agency in Europe: The case of ‘political Islam’ in Austria, Germany, and France by Hafez, Farid

“…This article discusses the emergence of a discourse on ‘political Islam’ in the policy circles of European elites. It interprets this discourse on one hand as…”
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The ‘Islamo-gauchiste threat’ as political nudge by Marlière, Philippe

“…What is ‘islamo-gauchisme’? The word sparked heated debates in French academia and in public conversations in 2020–2021. This article endeavors to shed light…”
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Dany Laferrière as a Japanese writer: Fantasy and despair by McQuade, Paul

“…Dany Laferrière has demonstrated a continuous engagement with Japan, beginning with the novel Éroshima in 1987 and continuing to his most recent publication in…”
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Breaking the Republican mold: French independent schools and agonistic pluralism amidst Franco-conformity by Ferrara, Carol

“…The modern French school system was established in the late nineteenth century upon an acculturating, assimilationist, and secular ideology of making “French…”
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