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The present article tries to situate the radical lesbian periodical Amazones d'hier, lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui andthe radical lesbian thought in the whole of the militant (and more specifically feminist) discourse of the years 1970 and 1980, with the aim of understanding its place and its critical range. We will see that this periodical occupies a very singular place in the feminist discourse at the time of its creation, insofar as it allows the theoretical articulation of a thought which aims at the affirmation of the lesbian existence outside the heteropatriarchal system, which would be rather arranged than subverted by the heterofeminists; the review creates an exogenous intellectual space to an otherwise dynamic feminist press.
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The main aim of this paper is to propose a sociopoetic reading of the figure of the investigator in the detective novel of French-speaking Africa, based on the hypothesis that this figure appears as one of the privileged means of social, political and cultural contestation. From the disappointed investigator to the hilarious forban, the detective novel of French-speaking Africa is characterized by the doubling of the investigation, the rewriting of the past and the convocation of various types of knowledge that constitute the renewal of African literary discourse. This sociopoetic perspective aims to show that the detective story is first and foremost a literary enunciation that attempts to express and understand the social and cultural functioning of contemporary African societies.
Keywords: African literature, littérature africaine, polar, detective fiction, sociopoetics, sociopoétique, popular culture, culture populaire, discourse, discours
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The point of view of the Inspector General of Financial Institutions on AIDS, an insurable risk?, is indeed interesting. The author is well versed on AIDS, how it is transmitted, and the number of carriers of the virus in the world. He looks at insurance claims, the role of insurers, legislation, the notion of discrimination, screening, etc. How are insurance companies reacting and what, in fact, are insurers doing? This, basically, is the question discussed in this article, a question which presents a major role in Mr. Bouchard's function, that is, consumer protection or protection of the clients of insurance companies.
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This article analyzes the “settler moves to innocence” deployed to withdraw the main character of Éric Plamondon's Taqawan, a white Québécois man, from a settler colonial system shown as brutal and unjust. Relying on a reading of Tuck and Yang's “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” the author criticizes the depiction of the protagonist as a good man as well as an ally to First Nations people and causes–with the intended effect of freeing him from his responsibility in the destruction caused by settler colonialism.
Keywords: Éric Plamondon, colonialisme de peuplement, innocence du colon, sauveur blanc, littérature québécoise, Éric Plamondon, settler colonialism, settler moves to innocence, white saviour, Quebec literature
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This essay explores the migration of witchcraft language from the rural environs in which we typically find it to the urban space of London in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl. The play’s characters repeatedly turn to the language of witchcraft to describe Moll’s disruptive presence in the play, a rhetorical strategy that I argue seeks to fix Moll in place in response to her unruly movement within the social, spatial, and acoustic horizons of the city, and to ostracize her from London by reimagining her as a figure that only makes sense in the rural environs beyond its walls.
Keywords: space, witch, witchcraft, music, gender, theatre, Dekker, Middleton, The Roaring Girl, city
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