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Using the emblematic example of Michel Houellebecq, the artists Alice Lescanne and Sonia Derzypolski worked on the figure of the living « great writer ». In a radiophonic creation and an itinerant artistic installation, they question the venues and authorities which patrimonialize literature. The paper is based on an audiovisual interview carried out with the two artists and a corpus of pictures and extracts taken from the two projects. It analyses how the duo highlights the mechanisms of the patrimonalization of an author and his work by selecting a controversial writer and the path of the (de)consecration of “great authors”.

This article present directly the gaming modification on a historiographical and cultural level to demonstrate that the practice can be retraced at the beginning of the video game history. With the works of Olli Sotamaa and Alison Gazzard ont modding communities, this text present these gamers regroupment as important industrial influencers in the inter-episodic space existing between two releases of a series. To demonstrate the mutual influences that can occur between the amateur and professional scene, The Elder Scrolls franchise is presented as a typical example of a game series, but also as one of the largest current modding community.

Keywords: Le style

Publications in foreign languages and translations are some of the main indicators to look at when it comes to discussing the globality of a national literature. However, in spite of the determination of several Gabonese literary critics to keep emphasising the vitality, in terms of quality and quantity, of Gabonese literature, there are no studies on these two topics. The aim of our article is to fill this void by focusing, from the point of view of the sociology of translation, on the relative importance of the works concerned, on the motivation of translators and on the mechanisms of international circulation of Gabonese writings.

Keywords: littérature gabonaise, sociologie de la traduction, circulation, mondialité, édition

The main purpose of this article is to present a grid useful for the development of children's literature collections in schools. It was developed as part of a doctoral research project with the aim of evaluating albums according to didactic criteria for teaching at the primary level as well as according to potential didactic uses of the albums. It is in line with collection-centered evaluation methods and provides information on the extent to which the book collections meet the didactic needs of teachers and, consequently, meet the needs of the community served by school libraries.

Through international studies done between the early 60s and 2000 by the IEA and the OECD on reading comprehension, math and science, we looked at the evolution of the difference in educational achievement between boys and girls. The main results of the analyses were as follows: Globally, girls surpass boys in reading, and boys surpass girls and math and science; The gap between boys and girls in scientific subjects lessened over time, but did not disappear; In terms of methodology, it is difficult to determine if the evolution observed correspond to a real reduction in the gap, or are a function of how the successive studies were set up and conducted; Girls can surpass boys in certain mathematical and scientific disciplines (physics, biology and chemistry); Performance difference between the sexes accentuates with age; The attitudes and interests of boys and girls in relation to reading, math and sciences are different, and the gap increases with age; Attitudes are more stereotyped in mixed learning groups.

Maryse Condé's youth novel Rêves amers appeared for the first time in the magazine Je bouquine in 1987 before being taken up by the Bayard youth editions in 2001. Dealing with the tragic experience of migration, it highlights the recurrent reality of social slavery (Mbembe 2013). « The French-language novel from the Antilles also brings about a considerable change in the nature of human beings. The men and women who are its heroes do not belong to a well-defined category. They undermine the concept of race. They are the result of various influences. They carry multiple bloods within them and are often half-breeds, sensitive to the color of their skin which conditions the quality of their existence » recently confided Maryse Condé in an interview conducted by Roger Célestin (153). This work, which was published in its initial form shortly before Crossing the mangrove, treats Haiti and the Caribbean as spaces of revolt against the historical curse of brutal reports of colonization (Carruggi). If the novel Rêves amers has had a certain reception within the framework of children's literarure and pedagogy, it remains relatively neglected in academic literary studies. However, the reference to Haiti is central with the advent of the first independent Black Republic in the New World. The hypothesis here is that Maryse Condé has proposed a didactic book intended to train the yonger generations to question what is taught from a postcolonial perspective. The content, themes and style of this book served as the basis for the series of novels that followed. Our study will focus on the analysis of the relationship between death and dreaming to identify a fundamental position on how to account for socio-historical relationships resulting from colonialism. In this context, Haiti remains the promise of an unfinished emancipation which is taught to the younger generations. These works seem neglected by the critics perhaps because their didactic style is much clearer.

Keywords: Haïti, République noire, Maryse Condé, aliénation coloniale, roman jeunesse, loas, imaginaire vaudou, Haiti, Black republic, Maryse Condé, colonial alienation, youth novel, loas, Vodoo imaginary

Ruin photography has become increasingly popular in the last decade. How can we understand the representations of the postindustrial city it offers? This paper analyses the practice and the images of ruin photography, by focusing especially on photographs of abandonned houses. Could these images be considered as « portraits » of houses, seeking to express the personality and the persistent life of the ruins? Following this interpretation, different avenues of analysis are opened: a reflexion on the temporality of photography and the temporality of ruins; the relation between images and death; the invisibility of people living in shrinking cities; and the future of contemporary ‘inhabitation'.

Keywords: photographie de ruines, ruines urbaines, villes postindustrielles, portrait, traces, ruin photography, ruin porn, urban ruins, postindustrial cities, portrait

A motley collection of articles and chronicles of an autobiographical, literary or political nature, Bad Feminist (2014) gives an insight into the questioning of identity of a young American woman born to Haitian immigrant parents. An academic, essayist and fiction writer, Roxane Gay discusses the difficulty of defining herself and, later, of taking a position as a woman of color in an America where this identity remains problematic. She questions the representations of women in contemporary fiction and analyses the place of people of color in television programs. She also examines, from a psychological and mythological point of view, the distress of the « green girls » who lend themselves to the game of reality TV. Far from any sectarianism, Roxane Gay relies on various references, some of them coming from icons of the feminist movement, to compose her own, imperfect but consciously embraced, version of feminism.

Keywords: Roxane Gay, féminisme, études de genre, culture populaire, intersectionnalité