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This article challenges established understandings of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing as a portrait of parallel female and national victimization by focusing on recent theorization of the inherently fraught relationship between national and gendered identities. It addresses the conflicted relationship between national purpose and female autonomy.
Keywords: Femininity in literature, French women authors, Women in literature
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This paper, which doubles as a call to action, draws on my personal experience, theoretical analysis, and sexually explicit self-portraiture to produce a sex positive reflection locating sites of shame as sites of resistance to western society's conceptualization of the body, regarding dependency, vulnerability, touch, and sexuality.
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Sexual desire involves a subjective experience that may differ significantly from one individual to another and is closely linked not only to personal preferences but also to the circumstances of the moment, cultural norms, and social expectations. When experiencing sexual desire, there are not only positive but also negative dynamics at play, and such an experience can also trigger a wide range of emotions that might differ depending on the circumstances of the moment. The aim of this paper is to explore the expression of sexual desire as well as its relationship to a broad spectrum of emotions through a selected group of ancient Egyptian textual sources, such as love songs.
Keywords: Sexual Desire, Sexuality, Emotions, Love Songs, Ancient Egypt
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Not all utopias are truly imaginative, yet minor ones can be instructive or amusing. This article explores the hierarchy-obsessed French Antangil as well as some minor English ones so as to deduce further what so entranced so many about Nowhere’s possibilities. None is as radical as Utopia itself—nor as intelligent. They do, however, show the uses to which a “utopia” can be put. After a glance at Antangil this article moves to a letter from the king of Utopia and thence to Edward Howard’s royalist drama Six Days in a New Utopia (1671), an interesting failure on stage. After a few glances at other utopias the article ends with a grimly amusing avian debate concerning the desire of foreign (French) canaries to settle in Utopia (England), where they will be safe from a persecutory eagle (Louis XIV). Utopia is “nowhere,” but it is a useful nowhere.
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When in 1834, during his Grand Tour of Europe, Hans Christian Andersen set foot in Naples, he was immediately won over by the exuberant vitality of the Neapolitan people. The Parthenopean city, where he “was exposed to sensuality as a daily temptation” (Rossel, “Hans Christian Andersen” 24 and “Do You Know the Land” 95), also awakened Andersen’s more repressed instincts. From this experience he drew material for his most autobiographical novel, Improvisatoren (1835; The Improvisatore), whose protagonist tries to and succeeds in resisting the seductions of Neapolitan sensuality. If on the one hand the Danish author underwent the typical experience of the Northern traveller visiting the South and, more specifically, Naples, enjoying its openness and gaiety, on the other hand he never completely abandoned himself to Southern allures, upholding his moral and religious beliefs against a city that continuously attempted to wholly seduce him. The present paper aims to retrace Andersen’s first journey to Naples—where, by the writer’s own account, “the blood boils” (The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen 85)—as a voyage into a tempting sensuality, contextualizing it within the wider context of nineteenth-century travelling experience in the city by Northern travellers.
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Keywords: Anne Archet, Anne Archet, Anarchie, Anarchy, Non-binarity, Non-binarité, Identités, Identities, Sexualités, Sexualities, Polyamory, Polyamour
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I analyze the way in which the Bildungsroman seizes on bisexuality in two contemporary French novels: Saccage (2006) by Éric Jourdan and A Boy Like Another (2012) by Joël Breurec. A novelistic genre representing the entry into adulthood of a young protagonist and his identity construction, the Bildungsroman proves here to be an adequate analytical tool for understanding the construction of bisexual identity through literary strategies aimed at represent it.
Keywords: Bisexuality, Bisexualité, Bildungsroman, Bildungsroman, LGBTQAI Studies, Etudes LGBTQAI+, Désir sexuel, Sexual desire, Plaisirs corporels, Pleasure, Gaze, Regard
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This article gives voice to feminine and « feminist » writers and critics of Subsaharian Francophone African literature. It shows how this literature has been the object of many controversies. Feminism, as a Western movement, has a negative connotation in Africa because it doesn't quite befit this continent's reality. African women writers who choose feminism as a means to liberate the African woman, her body and her writing must constantly deal with the censorship of the reader/critic, which conditions their writing and forces them to engage in an ongoing process of discursive negotiations. This article also shows that in spite of the controversy which surrounds such writings, women writers and critics agree on the fact that the feminist movement implies mostly western sociocultural values. Thus, it seems important to be most cautious when applying feminist theories to African texts.
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Play is considered by several authors as the principal means used by the child to represent and communicate intrapsychic conflicts and relational difficulties, express unconscious fantasies, and elaborate and modulate anxieties related to these fantasies. Neglect and maltreatment within the early significant relationships may impair the development of the child's symbolic capacity. Physical and sexual abuse during childhood can also provoke a temporary loss of the child's ability for pretend play. Another consequence of maltreatment is the presence of post-traumatic themes and play activities related to a literal and compulsive repetition of traumas. This article presents the psychotherapy of a young girl who has been exposed to complex trauma before the age of 3. Firstly, the child's life history and different foster placements are recounted. Secondly, clinical examples are used to illustrate the symbolic and post-traumatic themes and play activities showed by the child in psychotherapy. The authors distinguish post-traumatic play segments from abreactive ones, the latter representing a moderate expression of the trauma. Finally, therapeutic attitudes and techniques aimed to facilitate the child's psychic elaboration of trauma are discussed.
Keywords: jeu, trauma, jeu traumatique, attitudes et stratégies thérapeutiques, enfant, play, trauma, post-traumatic pay, therapeutic attitudes and techniques, child