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During the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC) pre-conference in Montreal in 2024, I shared my joyful and transformative experiences visiting in Europe, during a sabbatical year 2022-2023, and how these have contributed to fulfilment and joy in my teaching (and life) as a professor of Minority Language Education (French) in Saskatchewan. During my sabbatical year, I focused on slowing down to live each day open to possibilities. Walking and slowness offered me the chance to learn, reflect and to live in the present moment, thus facilitating a stronger connection to the earth, to myself, and to all my relations, human and more than human (Donald, 2023; Judson, 2019; Springgay & Truman, 2018. I was immersed in diverse “linguistic landscapes” (Araújo e Sá, Carinhos & Melo-Pfeifer, 2022) and communities where I found a sense of community and belonging. While spending a year walking, travelling and reflecting in various locations throughout France and Belgium, and many neighbouring countries, I took time to appreciate beauty in nature and in life and how everything is interconnected on this planet, enabling me to feel a stronger connection to the earth which has inspired me to share these experiences with my students. Through walking and many enriching encounters, taking the time to reflect allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of creative approaches to pedagogy which value the richness of linguistic and cultural diversity. By sharing my experience, I hope to shed light on the value of slowness, and the importance of having an open mind in order to “live poetically” (Leggo, 2005) and fully appreciate the beauty and diversity of this world.
Keywords: épanouissement, lenteur, voyages, marche, paysages linguistiques, littérature de jeunesse, plurilinguisme, joie
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In 1603, Diego de Torres Bollo (1550–1638), Jesuit procurator of the province of Peru, published in Rome his Relatione Breve, one of the first printed accounts of early Jesuit missionary activities in South America. The work was an instant success: in 1604 a second Italian edition was published in Venice, as well as translations into Latin (Antwerp) and French (Paris). The Relatione was typical of many Jesuit accounts of the period, that is, it consisted of a skillfully arranged montage of letters from the missions, written for the express purpose of attracting new vocations to missionary work in South America. To the detriment of this editorial success, with the exception of the major bibliographical repertories, de Torres Bollo’s text is rarely used and seldom cited by historians, and is even paradoxically absent in historical undertaking such as Rubén Vargas Ugarte’s Historia de la Compañía de Jesús en el Perú; furthermore, there is no modern edition, not even a diplomatic transcription, in the important Monumenta Peruana. With this contribution, I intend not only to inform those who read a little-known work, but also to demonstrate how it constitutes a decisive moment in the genesis of the “relation” genre in the first decades of written Jesuit communication.
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This reflection develops by following the connection between the images that appear in films and the words of those who directed them. Reviewing Tahar Kessi’s Hystérésis (Algeria/Autoédition, 2009), Djamil Belloucif’s Bir d’eau - walk movie - portrait d’une rue (Algeria/Autoédition, 2010), Drifa Mezener’s J’ai habité l’absence deux fois (Algeria/Béjaia DOC, 2011) and Aboubakar Hamzi’s El Berrani, it compares the words that allow us to catch a glimpse of one of the possible landscapes of Algerian cinema, one that completely accepts its inwardness.
Keywords: cinéma, habiter, Algérie, trauma, territoire, image de soi
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This article examines the role of the picaresque fiction in forming the Hispano-American novel. It explores the intertextual relationship between El Periquillo Sarniento (1816) and the picaresque tradition, to clarify the deconstruction which the latter undergoes in the former. The transformation of fundamental picaresque features under the impact of Latin-American socio-historical conditions and discursive features is thus illuminated. The picaresque tradition appears to have contributed largely to the Hispano-American novel; but is has done so in a greatly modified form, creating a type of narrative with its own identity.
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Philippe Vilain is one of the few writers to designate autofiction as his preferred genre and, what is more, to subscribe in his essays to Doubrovsky’s most restricted conception of the genre, which combines fiction and homonymity (the author and protagonist must share the same name). Vilain nonetheless relaxes this definition by allowing the narrator-character to remain anonymous: this is ‘‘anomalous’’ autofiction. This article examines the theoretical validity of this thesis and its implementation in Vilain’s novels.
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This article studies the positions of two great female writers of the medieval period in the construction of a cultural vocabulary destined to become that of the “Querelle des Femmes”—the ceaseless debate on the place of women in society which grew out of the writings of medieval moralists and preachers. In the historical context of a generalized misogyny that both prescribed and justified the exclusion of women—considered to be naturally inferior to men—from the world of literature, Marie de France and Christine de Pizan affirm their intellectual authority and demonstrate the beauty, both perfect and paradoxical, of women’s writing.
Keywords: Moyen Âge, Écriture, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Genre
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Machiavelli shared with Renaissance society the ideal of a cultural and civil renovatio, of a new conception of life and freedom. Even if the misogynistic element in his work prevails over the philogynous, Machiavelli was keenly aware of the contradictions of his time and conceived of extraordinary female figures showing all the paradoxes of a society intent on the pursuit of perfection in the “mutation” between “right measure,” “grace,” and bon giudicio. Starting from a study of the gender and critical interest in Machiavelli’s representation of women, this article, through a new reading of Machiavelli’s theatrical texts, tries to demonstrate this paradox and to suggest what we might call its “moral reason.” Through the comic element generated by the reversal of perspective, Machiavelli reflected on the immoral, or amoral, values of a private and public life, created according to ancient norms that regarded women, despite their worth and their education, as objects of the scenic perfection of life in society, from which they could escape only by relying on their own intelligence.
Keywords: Machiavel, Machiavelli, The women question, Querelle des femmes, La mandragore, The Mandrake, Clizia, Clizia