SPECIAL ISSUE: Queering Blackness
Yannick Blec, Anne Crémieux, Queering Blackness, Midwest Popular Culture Association, vol. 12, n° 1, 2024
https://www.mpcaaca.org/pcsj-volume-12-number-1
Editorial Introduction: Beyond Sociodemographics
CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD
SPECIAL ISSUE: Queering Blackness
Introduction to the Special Issue
YANNICK M. BLEC and ANNE CREMIEUX (GUEST EDITORS)
The Queer Spaces of Black Dance Music
CLAUDE CHASTAGNER
Everybody Needs a Safe Place: An Interview with Damon Percy
CLAUDE CHASTAGNER
Whatever Liberation Looks Like, Dance Is One of the Tools: An Interview with Takiyah Nur Amin
CLAUDE CHASTAGNER
"You Bitches Wouldn't Get It": Queer Ludonarrativity in Lil Nas X's "Late To Da Party (F*CK BET)"
LAURON KEHRER
From Shadows to Spotlight: Exploring Black Queer Aesthetics and Politics in the Works of Lil Nas X and Danez Smith
GLENN SMITH and MATHIEU PERROT
Harmony of Self: L'Marco's Ode to Awareness
GLENN SMITH
Young M.A: Queering Blackness in the Classroom
ÉMILIE SOUYRI
"I Never Hesitated": A Quare Analysis of Rap Non-Binary Identity in Lil Uzi Vert's 032c Interview
MELVIN L. WILLIAMS and CHRISTIN SMITH
The Marketing of a Voguing Icon: How Leiomy Maldonado Became the Face of Black Opal’s 2021 Campaign
FRÉDÉRIC HERBIN
Quare Representations In Absentia: Non-Binary Black Characterization(s) in Video Games
LAURA GOUDET
Queering Lafayette: Adapting and Subverting the Black Sissy Trope in True Blood
ELIZABETH MULLEN
The Translation Memoir, Life Writing
Lily Robert-Foley and Delphine Grass (eds), The Translation Memoir, Life Writing, Volume 21, issue 1 2024
This introduction presents the frame and contents of this volume devoted to the translation memoir. The translation memoir is formed at the intersection of life writing and translation studies, in which translators interweave reflections on their practice, craft, texts they translate and positionalities they occupy. As such it is a kind of creative-critical research carried out by translators. It offers a unique entry into texts, languages, cultures and the work of translation. The contributions included in the volume explore the way in which the subject position of writing can be displaced and problematised by inserting the translator's voice and subjectivity into a text, as the translator is precisely the player within a textual ecology who is supposed to not occupy a central position, but reside on the margins, invisible or couched in shadows, speaking only through the voice of another. The writings discussed in this volume, and in some cases the writings themselves, are thus a form of translational experimentation insofar as they break some of the rules, or push the limits of translation as precisely that which is not traditionally considered an original, authored writing. As such it is also a location from which to carry out critiques of other dominant paradigms such as national or gender-based oppressions.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14484528.2023.2281044
Style and Sense(s)
Editors: Linda Pillière, Sandrine Sorlin
- Brings together analyses of a wide range of genres and media
- Showcases pioneering research by upcoming academics and new insights from established scholars
- Makes a valuable contribution to the broad interdisciplinary study of stylistics
This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses. The title originated in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) 2022 conference and marks the 40th onsite event by showcasing some of the excellent papers delivered on that occasion. The selected chapters fall into 4 parts each of which gives pride of place to how style makes sense and how senses make style. The chapters follow research in neuroscience and sociocognition, investigate how body and mind are inextricably linked through embodied meaning; how emotions are both conveyed and perceived; and how impressions, thoughts and worldviews can be induced by a certain style. The apprehension of the senses is carried through a variety of theories (cognitive linguistics and stylistics, ecostylistics, phenomenology, simulation theory, enactivism, metaphor theory, Text World Theory) and is applied to various genres (poetry, novels, short stories, detectivefiction, restaurant reviews) and media (the oral vs written tradition, ekphrasis, and semiotic transfers). This book will be of interest to students and academics in stylistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, ecostylistics, and multimodality.
The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy
Editors : Sandrine Sorlin | University Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 & Tuija Virtanen | Åbo Akademi University
https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.343
As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject to pragmatic examination. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, communication and media studies, as well as corpus linguistics, and by its transdisciplinary nature, to researchers in philosophy, sociology, and political science. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay between language, culture and society, across varieties and registers of English.
Table of contents
List of contributors
Part I. Introducing and theorizing hypocrisy
Chapter 1. Introduction to hypocrisy
Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen
Chapter 2. A pragmatic model of hypocrisy
Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen
Part II. Metapragmatic approaches to hypocrisy
Chapter 3. Politics, religion, and drama: Exploring the metapragmatics of hypocrisy
Mathew Gillings
Chapter 4. “Ding ding ding we have a hypocrite!”: The metapragmatics of verbal hypocrisy in discussion forum interaction
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Part III. Hypocrisy and authenticity in political and public discourse
Chapter 5. Hypocrisy, authenticity, and the rhetorical dynamics of populism
Martin Gill
Chapter 6. Apology as hypocrisy: Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump
Helena Halmari
Part IV. Benign hypocrisy
Chapter 7. Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy
Michael Haugh
Chapter 8. Pretending to pretend: Performing “autohypocrisy” in online discourse
Tuija Virtanen
Part V. The ubiquity of hypocrisy
Chapter 9. The – mostly – brighter side of hypocrisy and the concept of face
Jim O’Driscoll
Chapter 10. A plea for hypocrisy: Pragma-philosophical considerations
Sandrine Sorlin
Part VI. Closing
Chapter 11. An epilogue and note on cross-cultural hypocrisy
Jonathan Culpeper
Index
Home. Les sens d'une maison
J. Feyereisen, R. Gangemi, A. Sepp, D. Houdmont
This book is the result of a critical and collective long-term reflection that originates in the cycle of interuniversity seminars, Home, initiated in Brussels in 2018, around the polysemic aspects and porous borders of the notion of ‘home’. Any attempt at definition raises the question of whether home corresponds to a place, a space, a feeling—in the singularor plural—, to practices or states of being in the world, as well as to its inhabitants, their concrete and symbolic lives, their memories and their class, gender, generational, and racial relations. And we will raise it from the point of view of contemporary literature and arts to better grasp their role in the understanding of a domestic spatiality.
Cet ouvrage est le réceptacle d’une réflexion critique et collective au long cours qui trouve son origine dans le cycle de séminaires interuniversitaires, Home, initié à Bruxelles en 2018, autour des facettes polysémiques et des frontières poreuses de la notion de « home ». Toute tentative de définition pose la question de savoir si home correspond à un lieu, un espace, un sentiment — au singulier ou au pluriel —, à des pratiques ou à des états d’être au monde, ainsi qu’à ses habitants, à leur vie concrète et symbolique, à leur mémoire et à leurs rapports de classe, de genre, de génération et de race. Et nous la poserons à partir de la littérature et des arts contemporains afin d’en comprendre le rôle dans cette appréhension d’une spatialité domestique.
Experimental Translation. The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production
By Lily Robert-Foley
ISBN : 9781913380700
Published: February 20, 2024
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
The history and future of an alternative, oppositional translation practice.
The threat of machine translation has given way to an alternative, experimental practice of translation that reflects upon and hijacks traditional paradigms. In much the same way that photography initiated a break in artistic practices with the threat of an absolute fidelity to the real, machine translation has paradoxically liberated human translators to err, to diverge, to tamper with the original, blurring creation and imitation with cyborg collage and appropriation. Seven chapters reimagine seven classic “procedures” of translation theory and pedagogy: borrowing, calque, literal translation, transposition, modulation, equivalence, and adaptation, updating them for the material political and poetic concerns of the contemporary era. Each chapter combines reflections from translation studies and experimental literature with practical guides, sets of experimental translation “procedures” to try at home or abroad, in the classroom, the laboratory, the garden, the dance hall, the city, the kitchen, the library, the shopping center, the supermarket, the train, the bus, the airplane, the post office, on the radio, on your phone, on your computer, and on the internet.
Now You See Her. How Lesbian Culture Won Over America
Now You See Her. How Lesbian Culture Won Over America
Anne Crémieux
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8581-6 eISBN: 978-1-4766-4816-3
Imprint: McFarland
Over the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise of lesbian visibility since the 1990s with in-depth historical analyses of representation in sports, music, photography, comics, television and cinema. Each chapter is complemented by an interview: soccer player and coach Saskia Webber, singer-songwriter Gretchen Phillips, photographer Lola Flash, cartoonist Alison Bechdel and filmmakers Jamie Babbit and Anna Margarita Albelo discuss the societal transformations that shaped their careers. From the “riot grrrl” movement of the early 1990s punk scene to screen representations of queer culture (The L Word, Orange Is the New Black), this book discusses how lesbian presence successfully infiltrated several patriarchal strongholds, and was transformed in return.
The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative
Jean-Michel Ganteau. The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative. Londres et New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9781032423203
This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an “ecology of attention” (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this, I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology, but also more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives, I address such issues as social invisibilities, climate change, AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention.
The Duty to Presence / Le devoir de présence
Lily Robert-Foley
The Duty to Presence / Le devoir de présence
Éditeur Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN-13 9791024017136
"The women are everywhere in this book. Their names are sprinkled across its pages, but more than that, their influence can be felt in all my ideas, and in the rhythm and body of my words. They are the single biggest influence on my own feminism, which is a shared feminism (I hope), and this book is nothing if it is not a kind of feminist manifesto (I hope). Much of the work here is about me trying to reconcile our shared feminism with my evolving into motherhood, a journey that sometimes represented some contradictions for me, but in the end turned out to be an enriching, complex layering of my feminism, like plants growing together in a garden. Feminism, for me, is always becoming, never still, always self-critiquing, sprouting and blooming, dying, becoming seed again." (Lily Robert-Foley)
Summary of Unequal Seansons
Remembering something I had never known
First notebook: The bird on the branch
Dear Mom–Mother's Day 2019
Second notebook: A year of sun
Years and Moms–For Cathy
Third notebook: The bear with the umbrella
How to Love–For Elisabeth, on her 70th birthday
Fourth notebook: White paper
Folk Song for Felix–Sung
Bestiary of Words Found
Lulling Prayer for Félix–Sung
Bibliography
Afterword: Questions to Lily Robert-Foley
Acknowledgments
Author's Bibliography
Writers at War. Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden
By Isabelle Brasme
Copyright Year 2023
ISBN 9781032219936
Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms.
While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors’ literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war.