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Refusing Consumption and Querying Genre: A Partial Reading of Marie NDiaye (2019)
Journal Article
Still, J. (2019). Refusing Consumption and Querying Genre: A Partial Reading of Marie NDiaye. Parallax, 25(3), 288-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2019.1624324

Even thinking (at) the border of thought, images and dreams (perhaps semi-fictions), inevitably raises questions of genre and how we read: what is the effect of the words (syllables, letters, sounds), and what is their affect? Does the phrase 'uniden... Read More about Refusing Consumption and Querying Genre: A Partial Reading of Marie NDiaye.

Spanish and Latin American women writers in the literary canon: a paratextual study of anthologies of fantastic literature (1946-2016) (2019)
Journal Article
Garcia, P. (2019). Spanish and Latin American women writers in the literary canon: a paratextual study of anthologies of fantastic literature (1946-2016). Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96(6), 575–593. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.34

While it is evident that there are outstanding women authors of the fantastic in Spain and Latin America since the nineteenth century, it is not as clear whether these writers are fairly represented in the corpus available to readers. To what extent... Read More about Spanish and Latin American women writers in the literary canon: a paratextual study of anthologies of fantastic literature (1946-2016).

Sylvain Tesson, l’extrême comme nostalgie (2019)
Book Chapter
Ridon, J.-X. (2019). Sylvain Tesson, l’extrême comme nostalgie. In Voyages Extrêmes (65-78). Classiques Garnier

Les discours de l’extrême sont actuellement à la vogue dans les medias et dans l’industrie touristique qui essaye d’inventer de nouvelles pratiques du voyage. Entre le goût du risque et la recherche de parcours qui sortent des sentiers battus, les vo... Read More about Sylvain Tesson, l’extrême comme nostalgie.

Jean Baudrillard et Édouard Glissant : lecture croisée et contradictoire de Segalen (2019)
Book Chapter
Ridon, J.-X. (2019). Jean Baudrillard et Édouard Glissant : lecture croisée et contradictoire de Segalen. In Victor Segalen, "Attentif à ce qui n'a pas été dit" (385-399). Hermann

La réflexion de Segalen sur la question de l’altérité a marqué la pensée contemporaine de deux façons distinctes qui dévoilent une tension au sein même de son concept d’exotisme. D’un côté, son idée d’une altérité non traduisible qui échapperait à to... Read More about Jean Baudrillard et Édouard Glissant : lecture croisée et contradictoire de Segalen.

Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions (2019)
Book
GOETTSCHE, D. (2019). Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14024

In the postcolonial reassessment of history, the themes of colonialism, decolonisation and individual and collective memory have always been intertwined, but it is only recently that the transcultural turn in memory studies has enabled proper dialogu... Read More about Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions.

The Danube Archipelago: the hydropoetics of river islands (2019)
Book Chapter
Zoric, V. (2019). The Danube Archipelago: the hydropoetics of river islands. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions (513-537). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14024

This essay looks at the Danubian river islands in the postcolonial memory of South Slavs. These river islands are liminal in multiple ways: hydrologically, because they are situated between the two riverbanks; geographically, because they emerged bet... Read More about The Danube Archipelago: the hydropoetics of river islands.

Dossier : Le groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité – Biology and complexity: Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan (2019)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (2019). Dossier : Le groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité – Biology and complexity: Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan. Natures Sciences Sociétés, 27(2), 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2019031

This article considers the important contribution made by Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan – both members of the Groupe des Dix – to the theorisation of life and information. They have both played a major role in challenging the dominant determinist, mech... Read More about Dossier : Le groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité – Biology and complexity: Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan.

Victor Segalen: Écrire sur les traces et la question de l’informe (2019)
Book Chapter
Ridon, J.-X. (2019). Victor Segalen: Écrire sur les traces et la question de l’informe. In M. Poizat-Amar (Ed.), Dans le sillage de Victor Segalen: Héritages, présences, trajectoires. Passages

Je commence par le paradoxe qui est au centre de l’idée de trace et qui en même temps donne une direction à toute l’œuvre de Victor Segalen. En effet la trace est à priori l’opposée de l’altérité que l’écrivain cherche à définir dans son concept d’ex... Read More about Victor Segalen: Écrire sur les traces et la question de l’informe.

Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua (2018)
Journal Article
Zhao, H. (2018). Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 4(2), 161-196. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.18003.zha

This study investigates the perception of the variation of neutral tone, a phonetic feature in China’s official language, Putonghua. Specifically, I explore whether native listeners perceive social meanings such as standardness, regional-ness, status... Read More about Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua.

‘That’s Ours. Don’t Touch.’ Nashe Radio and the Consolations of the Domestic Mainstream (2018)
Book Chapter
MCMICHAEL, P. (2018). ‘That’s Ours. Don’t Touch.’ Nashe Radio and the Consolations of the Domestic Mainstream. In V. Strukov, & S. Hudspith (Eds.), Russian Culture in the Age of Globalization (68-98). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315626628

In twenty-first-century Russia the symbolic authority of a generation of rock stars born at around the same time as the current president of the Russian Federation continues to exert itself. Artists like Boris Grebenshchikov (b. 27 November 1953, Len... Read More about ‘That’s Ours. Don’t Touch.’ Nashe Radio and the Consolations of the Domestic Mainstream.

Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Oergel, M. (2018). Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain. Angermion, 11(1), 31-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2018-0002

This essay presents the early reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Britain. Retrieving this largely forgotten engagement with Arndt, and engagement of Arndt as it turns out, provides two insights. On a more general level it illustrates the influence of... Read More about Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain.

Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten (2018)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2018). Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten. Oxford German Studies, 47(3), 351-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2018.1503473

In Flamingos, Ulrike Almut Sandig’s collection of eleven stories, narrative perspective comes under constant challenge so that these superficially simple texts reveal on closer inspection a multi-layered complexity. The following close readings of a... Read More about Challenging perspectives: narrative approaches in Ulrike Almut Sandig's Flamingos. Geschichten.