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Although it may seem paradoxical to mention manifestoes given today's disintegration of artistic activities and movements, there was a late twentieth century return to the genre that paralleled a “crisis in contemporary art”. To wit, art critic Nicolas Bourriaud published Esthétique relationnelle in 1995, a book outlining a new theory based on a wide selection of stylistically and topically diverse previous works. While its theoretical approach links the book to the “avant-garde” manifesto, Bourriaud's quasi-sociological slant and his reliance on a legacy contrast with the polemical tone and the “tabula rasa” that characterise the “avant-garde”. Changes in the historical context can explain that important difference: in today's global village, contemporary artists create new forms of engagement and utopias far removed from their elders', thereby changing the modalities and finalities of the manifesto.
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The proliferation of literary prizes has had as much impact on literature as it has had on the section for young readers, but for different reasons. In the case of the former, it seems as if the creation of new prizes may have been in response to recurrent crises in this venerable institution over more than a century. In the case of the latter, the number of prizes for children's books has increased though no such crisis has occurred. Far from the heightened mediatisation of literary prizes corrupted by an arbitrary and commercialized selection process, children's book prizes that are less renown require a more profound mediation process in order to make an effective contribution to the discovery of literature by young people. Prizes for children's books encourage reading, discussions, debates and encounters with authors. Therefore, the processes they put in place are more interesting than their results, that is to say they are significant because their main interest is the way children choose their favourite books rather than because they announce a list of prize-winners.
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This article expresses some thoughts on the problematic relations between the French speaking writers and the French literary establishment They are rarely awarded great French literary prizes and this invites us to examine the reasons why there is such an imbalance between the European French written and the French overseas litteratures, the former being more often awarded than the latter. The history of literary prizes reveals that, first of all, they have always been the theatre of conflicts of interest within the French literary circles. Contrasted publishing realities, marketing connected, ideological or aesthetical motivations explain that the French speaking writers have difficultes to be literary honoured in France.
Keywords: Literary prizes, French written litteratures, identity, publishing, consecration, Prix littéraires, consécration, littératures francophones, édition, identité
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This paper begins by situating the curiosity of writers of the interwar period towards cannibalism, and then proposes an analysis of two adventure stories by Renée Dunan: the novella Uzcoque and the novel Kaschmir. Jardin du Bonheur. Cannibalism is approached in two ways — literally and metaphorically — within plots whose main issue is to show what women are capable of.
Keywords: Anthropophagie, polyandrie, guerre des sexes, récits d'aventures, Renée Dunan, femmes, Anthropophagy, polyandry, war of the sexes, adventure stories, Renée Dunan, women
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The paper deals with Gauguin's geographical identities. It shows that the painter is not attached to a specific place, but is rather longing for the Elsewhere. This exoticism is shared with other orientalist artists, but his quest goes further. He longs for a more authentic human experience and expression, and hopes to find it in the "Savage", a figure of the Other defined by Geography. Gauguin wants to get away from the West and from the straitjacket of civilization. His journey is a quest for his identity. Gauguin's case shows that geographical identities have not necessarily something to do with territories, but may result from a complex and individual construction. The actor's representations and choices should then be taken seriously and be analyzed as elements of personal geographical identities, which may come to complement collective ones based on territories.