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The objective of this research note is to present the findings of a fieldwork that was conducted in Pubnico, Nova Scotia, my home village, between 2004 and 2006. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the oral literature of this Acadian region. The research focuses on the following questions: Is there in the memory of the people, stories that have been passed orally from one generation to the next without the influence of printed materials? Does the practice of sharing oral narratives play an important role in this community? If so, what types of narratives are active today? The study reveals, among other things, that the practice of telling oral stories is still a dynamic phenomenon in Pubnico, and it highlights the richness of active narratives, such as anecdotes.
Keywords: littérature orale acadienne, enquête sur le terrain, Pubnico, récits populaires, ethnologie, Acadian oral literature, fieldwork, Pubnico, folk stories, ethnology
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LA CRITIQUE EN DROIT INTERNATIONAL : RÉFLEXIONS AUTOUR DES LIVRES DE KOSKENNIEMI, ANGHIE ET MIÉVILLE
More informationThis article mainly aims at providing a critical analysis of the ideas that are presented in the three books surveyed. It will allow the author to propose some reflections on certain issues, in particular on indeterminacy in law, human rights “policy” as well as the enfranchising potential of international law. However, the survey of those three books is also a pretence for a broader analysis of those new critical approaches and to put them back in the context of the critical studies movement that has been prevalent in international law during the course of the last century. What this article tries to demonstrate, is that those new approaches are set apart by the fact that they provide both an epistemological and a normative critique to the dominant approaches in international law, which was not the case for the previous critical approaches.
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I have never kissed Laure is Kiev Renaud’s first novel. It has a strikingly rigorous and complex structure: the division into three parts highlights a sophisticated variation on three women’s points of view. Laure is first seen through the eyes of her erstwhile playmate, Florence, who looks back on childhood sexual awakening with its — apparently innocent — challenges, like the game that starts with: ‘I’ve never…’. Florence’s daughter, Cassandre, takes over from her mother, who is slowly going mad, and describes their home and her parents’ homosexuality. Finally, in poignant scenes, Laure relates the slow deterioration of Florence, her life-partner. The reader is fascinated by this sensitive and perceptive narration, whose apparent simplicity brings to mind both Leduc and Duras; though in fact, in this unsettling novella, the young author has found her own ‘voice’.