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1942.
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1944.More information
AbstractIn 1746 there appeared a curious novel written at the outside limits of libertinism, both of manners and mind, and often attributed to Crébillon fils: Les amours de Zeokinizul, Roi des Kofirans. Beneath the Oriental personages, a system of anagrams clearly spells out Louis Quinze for Zeokinizul and François for Kofirans. As amusing as this may be, nevertheless the title presents an enigma which cannot be reduced to a simple play of words. By showing Louis XV under the personage of Zeokinizul, the book expresses the relation with the other in the very heart of the representation of the self, thus following a sort of rhetoric of parallel oratory which mingles Orient with Occident. Going against the notions usually illustrated by cultural studies, here the challenge is that of throwing light on an Oriental figure whose extreme complexity is drawn from the singular fashion in which eighteenth-century France attempted to reason about the exercise of power and to refine ideas of pleasure by imagining themselves behind the features of a fabulous Orient.
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1946.More information
The February 1706 issue of the Mercure galant offered its readers the account of an agreement made between the Iroquois and the Ottawa in 1705. Given the context in which this negotiation was received, the Mercure's journalist decides to render each party's remarks, as he writes, in « style sauvage ». This style's characterization and the function it plays within the article's overarching narrative invite us to question received notions on the colonial imaginary of Ancien Régime news periodicals. Moreover, this article rethinks the essential role played by mondain fashions' short historical time and the present moment in the construction of the figure of the Other.
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1947.
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1948.