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This article looks at new literary explorations in the quest for identity. The examples chosen (mainly La logeuse by Éric Dupont and Les taches solaires by Jean-François Chassay) concur in offering a distanced relationship, even a willful parody to this motif. This approach suggests such novels are less concerned with the idea of identity than with the obsession of Quebec literature, i.e., a literary material rife with memory and codes, suggesting we revisit a category that nourished the first works on contemporary Quebec literature.

Dating sites constitute an ideal field to observe relations of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age and sexuality. In this article, these sites are to be understood as normative spaces that participate, through their function, in defining and regulating the diverse sexual profiles in society. The author analyzes dating sites as spaces from where appear dynamics of power in the field of sexualities, that is norms, representations and different forms of control regarding sexuality, romantic relationships and conjugality in the public sphere. Using an intersectional approach, she uses this topic to question the relevance, limits and potential danger of the concept of erotic capital, as defined by sociologist Catherine Hakim. The author therefore seeks how what's erotic is considered as such and try to clarify the dynamics of power that shape the definitions of eroticism and acceptable sexualities, in and through dominant popular culture.

Keywords: sites de rencontres, scripts sexuels, critique intersectionnelle, représentations sociales, espace public, catherine hakim

Before Suematsu's 1882 translation of the Tale of Genji, the information available in the West about Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece was sketchy and erroneous. The main objectives of this translator were to improve Japan's political status by demonstrating that it has a rich literary tradition, and to make known to Westerners what is in effect that nation's “cultural scripture” (Rowley). Reaction to his version was conflicted: readers and reviewers are curious about the previously unsuspected literary wealth presented to them, but struggle to comprehend and find points of reference. My article focuses on the circumstances that made possible this early representation of Japanese literature, while paradoxically keeping the Genji from being widely read and admired until Waley's famous translation appeared some 40 years later. I argue that Suematsu, in using this book to critique Anglo-American imperialism, nonetheless reveals his own ambivalent relationship with the text and its author. Further, Western audiences were ill-equipped to judge what they were reading, as well as reluctant to accept a non-European interpreter, and thus the reception of this world masterpiece was long stalled for reasons that had little to do with literary or translation quality.

Keywords: Japanese, East-West, The Tale of Genji, Suematsu Kenchô, world literature, Est-Ouest, Le Dit du Genji, Suematsu Kenchô, littérature mondiale

Following advances in ethology, leading to the idea that animals think, suffer and even make plans for the future ; data from anthropology, showing how many societies regard animals as individuals in their own right ; and deductions of philosophy, whereby if an animal counts as an individual then it has rights, the human/animal boundary is experiencing vast changes. This questioning, illustrated by works such as Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer, has collateral effects : by « liberating » animals, other barriers are also broken down and thus a whole range of fantasies about inter-species sex can be imagined. Although logically conceivable, this revolution poses problems of a symbolic nature. Speculation about bestial practices, with their associated ensemble of injuries, diseases and other « punishments » (natural and supernatural) remind us that the removal of imaginary differences has catastrophic effects : far from ensuring peace, it creates disorder and fuels conflicts.

Keywords: Dalla Bernardina, frontière homme/animal, zoophilie, antispécisme, éthique animale, initiation, anthropologie de la nature, Dalla Bernardina, Human-Animal Boundary, Bestiality, Anti-Speciesism, Animal Ethics, Initiation, Anthropology of Nature, Dalla Bernardina, frontera hombre/animal, zoofilia, anti-especiesismo, ética animal, iniciación, antropología de la naturaleza

This article deals with the singular case of the circulation of the song J'attendrai in the 1940s. The analysis of the different versions of the song allows us to reveal the changing relationship between these versions and musical genres, the tastes and practices of the public, and the way they fit into national cultures. This analysis also allows us, in places, to explore the evolution of social relationships between genders as presented in the different versions of the song. This way, our analysis of this case of cultural transfer is guided as much by the artistic, cultural, social and intimate aspects of the song, as by a search for the vectors explaining the cultural circulation of a successful song.

This article centers on the lived experiences of racialized servicewomen in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drawing on qualitative interviews with racialized servicewomen, I problematize the function of contemporary diversity and inclusion initiatives within the CAF. Focusing on the intersection of race and gender in their lives provides a way to think through structural inequities within the Canadian military. By examining how these structures of power operate within the CAF, we are better situated to understand how current diversity and inclusion initiatives work to consolidate hegemonic power. Informed by feminist critical race theories and critical geography, I trace the experiences of racialized servicewomen to understand how they make sense of their inclusion and belonging and how they assess their everyday experiences in the context of diversity and inclusion strategies presented by the CAF. Their lived experiences reveal the importance of race and gender in their lives, and expose the limits of diversity and inclusion practices, particularly, in their inability to address deeper structural issues of white supremacy, heteronormativity, and patriarchy within the CAF. While concepts of diversity and inclusion are typically concerned with the inclusion of those on the margins, this research suggests that we must seriously interrogate the theoretical, practical, and political work of diversity and inclusion initiatives within a multicultural context. Troubling inclusion and diversity in the CAF demands we disrupt structures of dominance and reflect on how to re/conceptualize and re/integrate meaningful difference more substantially throughout institutional life in multicultural Canada.

Keywords: Canadian Armed Forces, diversity and inclusion, gender, intersectionality, race