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From the gypsy, Amica, who seduces François, in Le torrent, to the black dancer Jean-Ephrem de la Tour, in Un habit de lumière, to Doctor Nelson who turns the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières upside down in Kamouraska and Stevens Brown accused of murder in Les fous de Bassans, the Other is a figure that haunts Anne Hébert's entire work. The objective of this article is initially to identify the various manifestations of otherness in order to identify its recurring forms, allowing us to examine the meaning of the omnipresent figure of the Other. Does the character as Other, from the pen of a Quebec author, bring to light the hidden, unacknowledged desires of an individual or a society? What is basically its symbolic power and its function of revelation?
Keywords: Anne Hébert, Anne Hébert, altérité, Alterity, malfaisance, Malfaisance, Eros, Eros, Thanatos, Thanatos
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AbstractBy allowing the creation of a parental relationship between a child and two persons of the same sex, the reform adopted on June 24, 2002 not only formalizes homosexual families, but also recognises the existence of a serious rift with the biological actualities that had previously served as a model for laws dealing with filiation. According to the then Justice Minister, some such overhaul had become necessary in order to be able to provide legal protection for the children involved. However, remodelling the parameters of filiation was not the only legislative option available to achieve the desired objective. Other measures, such as joint parental authority or the legal recognition of a new form of “psychological kinship” could have been contemplated as a way of ensuring the legal protection of the children in question. This reform, adopted in haste by the Quebec legislator, opens up prospects whose impact on children's welfare cannot yet be fully measured. This incomplete piece of legislation does not respond to the need for legal protection of the majority of children growing up in a homosexual environment.
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The term « diversity » is gaining in popularity as it highlights efficiently the mythical norm of the universal social subject. Its various usages indicate that the meanings of diversity and heterogeneity are intermingled, leading to a semantic confusion between both terms. The authors compare the heuristic value of the terms to think out emancipation. They expose a series of analytical considerations emphasizing the necessary differentiation between the normative nature of the political usages of diversity and the social fact of heterogeneity. They further dwell upon the complexity of conceptualizing resistance showing the inescapable, yet seldom considered, ternary nature of any power relation.
Keywords: diversité, hétérogénéité intragroupe, domination, rapports sociaux, intersectionnalité, émancipation
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This article is based on Jean Echenoz's first novel, Le méridien de Greenwich (1979), and focuses on the status of the scientific researcher and his/her place in the social domain. The article first examines this issue from a sociological perspective, then examines a few particular effects of “science fiction” in Occidental society, effects manifested in the novel while the intellectual power of a scientist is at stake.