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Today, the “crisis of masculinity” discourse is a “cliché”. But this alleged crisis occurs while men still hold more power and privileges than women. It is therefore important to critically investigate the rhetoric about the “crisis of masculinity” and assess its political meaning. In order to do so, we begin by looking at Western history and show that men have been claiming to be in crisis for the last five centuries. After discussing more specifically three historical periods (England in the seventeenth century, France during the 1789 Revolution, and the West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century), we pay special attention to contemporary discourse. The analysis confirms that the rhetoric about “crisis of masculinity” carries a critique of feminism and a rejection of gender equality. This discourse also justifies the (re)affirmation of conventional masculinity.
Keywords: antiféminisme, masculinité, virilité, histoire de la virilité
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Collections of newspaper columns acted as privileged experimental sites for end-of-the-century authors. A study of the origins of these anthologies reveals how media transfer functions and the generic hybridity that results from it: the texts circulate from one medium to another among newspapers, reviews and books, and borrow traits from these diverse editorial styles. The column oscillates between journalism and literature while embodying a multitude of micro-styles in which the entire art of the writer is practiced. The anthology effect tends to stiffen these forms and cause them to lose some of their richness, but the play between unity and fragmentation that they generate results in a hybrid, resolutely modern work.
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This article analyzes the first novel by Dany Laferrière, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer. It demonstrates that, read from the point of view of its narrative architecture, its organization of space, the place it gives to the production, distribution and reception of the artistic work, this novel is a clear representation of the book-object. It thus intends to contribute to completing the analyses that limited themselves to the subsidiary facets of that key element which gives content and form to the novel.
Keywords: représentation, objet-livre, architecture narrative, lieux, réception, Laferrière, representation, book-object, narrative architecture, places, reception, Laferrière
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Hitoshi Iwaaki's masterpiece Parasyte (1988-1994), though ignored by academic critics, encapsulates in a particularly striking way the different issues surrounding manga bodies as they are torn between body horror and the pleasures and disgraces of becoming-posthuman.
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In the first part of the article, I examine Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast in light of Butor's interpretation of Rembrandt's sight/blindness paradox. In the second part of the article, I then outline the numerous ways in which Belshazzar's Feast flourishes in Butor's own L'Emploi du temps. While numerous researchers have highlighted the importance of biblical intertextualities in this novel – Cain and Abel, Babel, the Apocalypse – Belshazzar's Feast has been largely overlooked, despite being central to the text. Through a detailed analysis of both Rembrandt and Butor's representations of Belshazzar's Feast, I argue that, for both artists, the traditional distinctions between text and image blur when the mysterious and divine letters in this biblical scene cease to necessarily form words.