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ABSTRACTFrom an interactionist point of view, the cultural life history of the clinician is as important as that of the patient. In present day Europe, migratory upheavals have requested adjustments at all levels. There are foreign patients, yet professionals are themselves also culturally diversified. Affected by the migration stress, they too are submitted to its effects. The author proposes that the patient/clinician relationship be revisited in the light of the interpretative-reflexive interaction model between informant and ethnographer in the anthropological fieldwork.
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The political upheavals at the beginning of the century of Romanticism are, in Portugal, synonymous with the emergence of a new dramatic sensibility. French theatre, imported by numerous foreign theatre troupes and political exiles, introduced a new vitality to Portuguese literature. The literary and cultural contacts initiated by the estrangeirados and Portuguese artists and the dissemination of French models on Portuguese soil open a new chapter in the Franco-Peninsular relations. Until the end of the century in fact, theatre is thought and expressed as French, to the point of ignoring other European developments in dramatic literature.
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AbstractWhat is the African novel's relationship to realism? To highlight the richness and multiplicity of fictional forms, this article aims to show that the mimetic relationship African writers believed they developed with the world was in part illusory, and that their pretence of transparency masked the tricks and processes of rhetoric. The fact that the African novel is not as mimetic as a certain critical thought would have us believe does not prevent it from telling us much about a reality still anchored in History, and from attempting to define the truth of it. When it reaches to the edge of what drives it, it is an unparalleled instrument for analyzing social cogs and mechanisms. Where the African novel succeeds best in revealing social truth is in its fictional universe, in its imagination, in its writing or its poetics.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, when literary history was undergoing profound change and experimenting with new approaches, when there were conflicting visions of the function of literary criticism and the readership was becoming broader and more diverse, it appears that a taste for the contemporary established itself in a relatively consensual manner within the discipline. The consensus was all the more astonishing in that the ambition to write a history of the present is paradoxical and undermines a certain idea of literary history as conservative. This article aims to examine the fate that literary historians at the turn of the twentieth century reserved in their work for the literature of their time, and to address some of the issues raised by this contradictory practice. The observation of both the practices and justifications of the first modern literary historians regarding the study of the contemporary thus offers the opportunity for a wider understanding of the concerns and principles of literary history at the moment it was founded and established, and then became an echo chamber for the national and identitary fears of France in the previous (nineteenth) century.
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The Lyons' Musée des Confluences successfully launched in 2009 a series of public debates in association with Oullins' Théâtre de la Renaissance and Sens Public. As the theater's director, Jean Lacornerie focuses his creation on a musical program. Aaron Copland's opera The tender land emphasises the social distress of the Thirties, challenging our understanding of the current long term crisis we are facing.
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In small numbers, first of all during the American Revolution (1775-1781) and in the wake of the Insurrection of 1837-1838 in Lower Canada, but especially by the thousands between the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Great Depression of the 1930s, Québécois in search of a better life settled in New England. Today, their descendants, the Franco-Americans, total more than three million, or nearly half of Québec's present population. As a means of preserving and promoting more or less successfully the French language and Franco-American culture while becoming integrated into the American way of life, institutions of all types were created. Professor emerita of French, author, translator, president of the Fédération féminine franco-américaine and founding director of the Institut français of Assumption College, Claire Quintal ranks among those dynamic individuals to whom is owed the miracle of a francophone minority still in existence in New England nowadays.