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AbstractThe research project concerns language socialization among urban immigrant adolescents. A large number of interactions shows that among the factors that play a role in rising to peer social status and in acquiring certain language features, space seems to be important. As well, the subjects identified as leaders seem to have an affirmative and representational function in terrritorilized spaces that do not necessarily correspond to exogene categories, be they administrative, media or popular. I will attempt to determine to what extent and how territories and reference spaces are constructed, and with what characteristics they are associated with respect to language practices and identity building.
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The present study examines the Portuguese right-wing and Hungarian communist regimes' attitudes towards homosexuality and sexual minorities through an analysis of English-language literary works translated and published in Hungary and Portugal between 1939 and 1974. One of its main objectives is to contribute to the scarce body of research on the history of non-normative sexualities by mapping literary works in English that might have been read by the queer community as possible self-help literature in the two countries. Besides the prevailing publishing practices, the modi operandi of the Hungarian and Portuguese censoring apparatuses are compared to see what kind of translated literature with homosexual content was or was not allowed to be published under the two opposing dictatorial regimes and why. The research draws heavily on the book censorship files stored at the National Archives of the Torre do Tombo in Lisbon along with the findings of the Hungarian project English-Language Literature and Censorship (1945-1989) and the project Intercultural Literature in Portugal 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography.
Keywords: Salazar's Portugal, Hungarian People's Republic, censorship, publishing practices, homosexual-themed literature, Portugal de Salazar, République populaire de Hongrie, censure, pratiques éditoriales, littérature à contenu homosexuel
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1983 marked a first turning point in the career of director David Cronenberg who chose to turn to literary adaptations rather than original screenplays. However, whatever the relationship he has with the adapted material (King, Ballard, etc.), the figure of William Burroughs remains a constant in his work: an Ur-text. Cronenberg is, in fact, a “Burroughsian” director (a term that it is up to us to define) in all of his adaptations, including the most personal, and the influence of the American writer, of whom he is a reader, is found even in Consumed, a novel by the Canadian published in 2014. We will thus analyze the paradoxical relationship between Cronenberg and Burroughs, the filmmaker taking charge of the impact of the novelist as much in his style as in his themes, while seeking to move away from any imitation and searching for a voice which is unique to him. Also, 1991 is a second turning point in the career of the director who, by adapting Naked Lunch, a novel considered unadaptable by William Burroughs, decides to confront his inevitable model while freeing himself, to a large extent, from the source text. In doing so, Cronenberg definitely plays with the rules of adaptation but also, and perhaps above all, of transgression, and invents a new kind of transposition which says as much about the figure of the insurmountable writer as about that of the artist who questions the mechanisms of the creative process, contagion and authority.
Keywords: David Cronenberg, David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, adaptation cinématographique, movie adaptation, cinéma, cinema, cut-up, cut-up
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This article aims to illustrate how translation is a witness to the way texts are read from one era to another, and how the translator translates a text in much the same way as he reads it (Ut legis ita vertis !) Moreover, the age in which a text is read is not necessarily the one in which it was written, so that the translator often introduces the text to be translated into a different time period than that of the original and one which the author could not have earlier foreseen. In this respect, the study of translations is part of a broader context in which the researcher must draw out the different elements that led to a particular reading of the translated text. This type of study, the “genetic philology of translation”, finds an example here in the contextualisation of the first known French translation of Plato’s Phaedo by Jean de Luxembourg.
Keywords: Plato, Phaedo, Marsilio Ficino, Louis Le Roy, Jean de Luxembourg, Renaissance translation, Renaissance philosophy, History of translation
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According to the theoretical perspectives of Catherine Bell and Michel Foucault, a ritual can be interpreted as a discourse which develops a hegemonic order, a strategic way to implement the normative functioning of the context in which the ritual is embedded. In a religious context, ritualization can be used to establish power relations within religious communities, particularly between the sexes. From these perspectives, this article analyses the Jewish rite of immersion, the mikvah, from its traditional form to its contemporary feminist transformations. The mikvah was originally a purification ritual that governed the lives of Jewish women who were menstruating and married, giving them a certain status within their community. Rabbi Elyse Goldstein has rethought this practice to adapt it to changing mentalities, and to detach it from its role as a regulator of marital sexual intercourses.
Keywords: rituality, ritualité, Judaism, judaïsme, feminist transformation, transformations féministes, rapport de pouvoir, power relations, mikvah, miqveh
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This article documents factors that can undermine the social participation of LGBTQ2S young adults within Quebec organizations dedicated to sexual and gender diversity. As part of the SAVIE-LGBTQ Research Partnership, 49 life-story interviews were conducted with individuals aged 18 to 29. Thematic analysis of the qualitative data identified four categories of barriers. Individual barriers stem from personal issues such as time management and activist burnout, alongside fears of victimization that accompany the process of self-discovery and self-affirmation. Interpersonal barriers reflect group dynamics that can generate discomfort or unease, as well as experiences of discrimination. Intra-community barriers highlight the tensions and recognition issues that run through LGBTQ2S communities, especially in terms of identity. Finally, organizational barriers underscore the challenges associated with diverse spaces of social participation and the structural issues facing organizations.
Keywords: young adults, jeunes adultes, diversité sexuelle et pluralité des genres, sexual and gender diversity, social participation, participation sociale, exclusion, exclusion, Québec, Quebec
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GRIS-Montreal is a community organization that demystifies sexual orientation, as well as trans and non-binary (TNB) identities, through the sharing of personal accounts in a variety of settings, including educational institutions. Drawing on data gathered through questionnaires distributed at the organization’s workshops, this article analyzes how young adults studying at college or university perceive TNB people. Based on a qualitative thematic analysis of short-form responses from 689 questionnaires, the results address three main questions: (1) how questionnaire respondents defined TNB people and what this says about young people’s level of understanding; (2) how youth attitudes regarding TNB people reflect a range of stances towards gender plurality; and (3) how young adults’ representations of trans people’s experiences tend to be rooted in body-related aspects and the idea of transition (becoming), whereas their representations of non-binary people tend to be rooted in notions of identity.
Keywords: transgender, transgenre, non-binary, non-binaire, representations, représentations, attitudes, attitudes, jeunes adultes, young adults
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For some time now, queer theory has uncritically assumed that identity politics should be rejected outright. Through a theoretical and biographical discussion of Michel Foucault’s resistance against the subject—his attempts at subject effacement—this paper argues that resistance is not realized through non-identity politics alone. It addresses two main questions: does the practice of non-identity sufficiently resist knowledge that (re)presents subjects and what are the social and political possibilities or risks of subject effacement? In response to these questions, it argues that, although the queer politics of non-identity is a mode of resistance, it is not sufficient as resistance in all contexts or fields of knowledge. It suggests that in many contexts, what Foucault refers to as the “infinite possibility of self” or the interruption of the subject cannot be realized through invisibility politics: in many contexts this possibility can only be experienced if and when the subject comes face to face with the presence of an other-subject.
Keywords: Identity, Subjectivity, Non/Identity Politics