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Saints and lovers: myths of the avant-garde in Michel Georges-Michel's Les Montparnos (2012)
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Shingler, K. (2012). Saints and lovers: myths of the avant-garde in Michel Georges-Michel's Les Montparnos. French Cultural Studies, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155811427631

This article examines Michel Georges-Michel’s 1924 novel Les Montparnos as a study of the myths circulating around the Montparnasse avant-garde of the 1920s, and their function in relation to art. Key amongst these myths is the idea of art as a relig... Read More about Saints and lovers: myths of the avant-garde in Michel Georges-Michel's Les Montparnos.

Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the fascination of cross-cultural experience in contemporary German historical novels about colonialism (2012)
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Göttsche, D. (2012). Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the fascination of cross-cultural experience in contemporary German historical novels about colonialism. German Life and Letters, 65(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2011.01563.x

This article maps four different types of cross-cultural experience in contemporary historical novels about colonial Africa (colonialist, exoticist, intercultural, and transcultural) before focusing on Buch’s Sansibar Blues (2008) as a case study in... Read More about Hans Christoph Buch’s Sansibar Blues and the fascination of cross-cultural experience in contemporary German historical novels about colonialism.

‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps (2011)
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Marks, J. (in press). ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps. Modern and Contemporary France, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2011.610166

Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's work on Michel Foucault, control societies and cinema, Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps is analysed as a cartographic rendering of post-Fordist labour. The film creates a pervasive ambiance of liminality and dreamlike di... Read More about ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps.

‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’ (2011)
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Sharman, A. (2011). ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00528.x

The article examines two ‘postmodern’ critiques of modernity: a general history which argues that it was never solely Western, and a work of Latin American cultural criticism which wishes to leave a modernity seen as eurocentric. It argues that to u... Read More about ‘Latin American Modernity, and yet...’.

Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes (2011)
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Shingler, K. (2011). Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes. Paragraph, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2011.0006

Literary scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in reading, and have incorporated scientific research in this area into their critical approaches to texts. This article argues that su... Read More about Perceiving text and image in Apollinaire's calligrammes.

A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea' (2011)
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Bartel, H. (2011). A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'. German Life and Letters, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01519.x

In the extensive tradition of adaptations of the Medea myth in German-speaking literature Paul Heyse’s novella Medea (1898) has been often overlooked. However, the fact that it is the first text to introduce the tragic heroine from classical mytholog... Read More about A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'.

Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’ (2010)
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Marks, J. (in press). Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’. Paragraph, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/E0264833410000945

This article explores literary interrogations of the bioethical implications of cloning. It does so by outlining the basic science of cloning before going on to question the dominance of the Freudian notion of the ‘uncanny’ in the critical theoretica... Read More about Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’.

Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s (2010)
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Göttsche, D. (2010). Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s. German Life and Letters, 63(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2009.01482.x

Since the 1980s African migrants’ writing in German has seen significant development, establishing itself as one of the few examples of a German postcolonial literature in the literal sense, undercutting traditional notions of national literatures, a... Read More about Cross-cultural self-assertion and cultural politics: African migrants' writing in German since the late 1990s.

Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro (2010)
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Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2010). Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro

Confronting the fact that Amado L. Caeiro’s poetry collection Baralha de sonhos comes framed by the interpretations provided through the accompanying texts authoredb by António Gil Hernández (legal name who fabricated Amado’s as his otherbproper name... Read More about Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro.

Reading through photography: Roland Barthes’s last seminar “Proust et la photographie” (2009)
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Yacavone, K. (2009). Reading through photography: Roland Barthes’s last seminar “Proust et la photographie”. French Forum, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.0.0064

Focused on Roland Barthes’s notes for the last seminar of his Collège de France lecture series, entitled “Proust et la photographie,” this article considers the later Barthes’s conceptions of reading and writing, arguing that they are closely intertw... Read More about Reading through photography: Roland Barthes’s last seminar “Proust et la photographie”.

Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza) (2008)
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Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2008). Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza)

In 2003 the Galizan writer João Guisan published Isto é um livro. Projecto Dicionário Vivo, conceived as ‘a project of a Project’ which would retain an essential relationship with language and writing but would potentially exceed them, crossing the b... Read More about Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza).

Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic (2007)
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Andrews, J. (2007). Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic. Modern Language Review, 102(1),

Meyerbeer's grand opera L'Africaine (1865) tells the story of the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's triumphant journey back from the east African coast and his love for an African slave. It raises questions relating to the repres... Read More about Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic.

Emine Sevgi Özdamars Erzählung »Der Hof im Spiegel«: Spielräume einer postkolonialen Lektüre deutsch-türkischer Literatur (2006)
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Göttsche, D. (2006). Emine Sevgi Özdamars Erzählung »Der Hof im Spiegel«: Spielräume einer postkolonialen Lektüre deutsch-türkischer Literatur. German Life and Letters, 59(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00365.x

Im Anschluss an zumeist angloamerikanische Forschung zur deutschsprachigen Migrantenliteratur reflektiert der Beitrag Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer postkolonialen Lektüre der deutsch-türkischen Literatur. In deren zweiter Entwicklungsphase führen M... Read More about Emine Sevgi Özdamars Erzählung »Der Hof im Spiegel«: Spielräume einer postkolonialen Lektüre deutsch-türkischer Literatur.

Calixthe Beyala: black face(s) on French TV (2004)
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Hitchcott, N. (2004). Calixthe Beyala: black face(s) on French TV. Modern and Contemporary France, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/0963948042000284731

As president and spokeswoman of the French black rights movement, Collectif Egalité, Cameroonian-born novelist Calixthe Beyala is committed to pushing for an improvement in the representation of black people on television in France. This article disc... Read More about Calixthe Beyala: black face(s) on French TV.

Der neue historische Afrika-Roman: Kolonialismus aus postkolonialer Sicht (2003)
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Göttsche, D. (2003). Der neue historische Afrika-Roman: Kolonialismus aus postkolonialer Sicht. German Life and Letters, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00256

Im Rahmen des sprunghaft angestiegenen Interesses an Afrika in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrtausendwende sind seit Uwe Timms Morenga (1978) neue historische Afrika-Romane entstanden, die die Erinnerung an den vergessenen deutschen Anteil a... Read More about Der neue historische Afrika-Roman: Kolonialismus aus postkolonialer Sicht.

Missverständnisse, Rollenspiele, Double Binds: Kommunikation und Bewusstsein im Werk Birgit Vanderbekes (2002)
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Uecker, M. (2002). Missverständnisse, Rollenspiele, Double Binds: Kommunikation und Bewusstsein im Werk Birgit Vanderbekes. German Life and Letters, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00232

Abweichend von der dominierenden Strategie der Literaturkritik, die das Werk Birgit Vanderbekes in erster Linie auf seine soziologische Repräsentativität für Entwicklungen der deutschen Gesellschaft seit den fünfziger Jahren untersucht hat, konzentri... Read More about Missverständnisse, Rollenspiele, Double Binds: Kommunikation und Bewusstsein im Werk Birgit Vanderbekes.