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Miguel de Unamuno’s notion of public sphere (2019)
Book Chapter
Roberts, S. (2019). Miguel de Unamuno’s notion of public sphere. In L. Villamediana González, & D. Jiménez Torres (Eds.), The configuration of the Spanish public sphere: from the Enlightenment to the Indignados (174-191). Berghahn Books

This chapter analyses Unamuno's evolving notion of a public sphere in Spain between the 1890s and the 1930s.

The psychodynamic analysis of work (2019)
Journal Article
Marks, J. (2019). The psychodynamic analysis of work. Modern and Contemporary France, 28(3), 291-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2019.1702938

This article provides an overview of the psychodynamic analysis of work associated primarily with Christophe Dejours. It explores briefly the roots of psychodynamics in the psychopathology of work that emerged as a field in France in the 1950s. It th... Read More about The psychodynamic analysis of work.

‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina (2019)
Journal Article
Miranda, R. (2019). ‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 96(8), 1317-1342. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2019.1654266

The function of the self-proclaimed ‘Proustian’ traits of Gilberto Freyre’s work will act as the point of departure for a critique of Freyre’s conception of his non-fiction works, namely the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953). As Freyre strategicall... Read More about ‘Aprendiz de Proust’: Gilberto Freyre in Search of a Lost Past and a Renewed Future in Aventura e rotina.

Music Hall, Jigs and Strippers: English Low-Brow Music in French Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing (2019)
Journal Article
Scott, H. (2019). Music Hall, Jigs and Strippers: English Low-Brow Music in French Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 55(4), 397-414. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz020

It is a commonplace to remark that nineteenth-century England was a land without music. Yet French travel writers in the fin de siècle remark again and again on their astonishing, low-brow musical encounters in the nation’s capital. The present artic... Read More about Music Hall, Jigs and Strippers: English Low-Brow Music in French Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing.

L’oralité dans Allah Superstar : représentations, tensions, traduction (2019)
Journal Article
Mevel, P. (2019). L’oralité dans Allah Superstar : représentations, tensions, traduction. TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, 31(1), 47–68

This article examines the way in which banlieue French—a largely predominantly spoken linguistic variety—is used narratively and aesthetically in Y. B.’s novel Allah Superstar, and makes suggestions with regards to its English language translation. T... Read More about L’oralité dans Allah Superstar : représentations, tensions, traduction.

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. (2019). Sylvain Tesson, l’extrême comme nostalgie. In Voyages Extrêmes (65-78). Paris: 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. (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). Paris: 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. Oxford: 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.