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If it is true that a sizeable number of the ill live out their last days peacefully, then others are otherwise thrown into an indescribable state of anguish. How can such variation be explained? Can we intervene more efficiently? The theory of terror management through self-esteem, formulated in 1986 by Solomon, Greenberg and Pyszczynski, offers a coherent theoretical framework and potentially provides leads for intervention pertaining to the practice of palliative care, which we shall attempt to explore in this article.
Keywords: terreur de mort, estime de soi, soins palliatifs, fear of dying, self-esteem, palliative care
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Beginning in the sixties, actresses, writers, playwrights, and feminist collectives began to denounce their alienation and exploitation with the goal of changing the image of women in Québec theatre. In this article, I propose to analyse how these artists placed the female body center stage in order to generate a discourse of the body. I will explore the scenic representation of the body as well as the expression of female sexuality. Numerous other issues related to the theatricalization of the body will be examined, including the ideal of beauty, anorexia and obesity, pregnancy and maternity, lesbian and heterosexual eroticism, rape, and menopause. Produced and performed by women, the plays of women's theatre were written to allow female spectators to see themselves reflected in the dramatic spectacle. To create more believable female characters, it was necessary to reject the conventions of theatrical realism and imagine other strategies of representation. It was also imperative to transgress taboos associated with the female body and to invent a new dramatic discourse that allowed women to speak honestly about their corporeality.
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This article aims to show some variations, evolutions, constants, and characteristics of postcolonial and their implications, from a comparative approach to the linguistic imaginary of African “classical continent” writers and those of the diaspora. The reflection that draws on postcolonial thought presents the literary languages of the latter as a laboratory for analyzing the postcolonial world.
Keywords: Postcolonial, imaginaire, langue, diaspora, francophonie, Postcolonial, imaginary, language, diaspora, francophonie
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This article discusses the Lacanian theory of the cinematic depiction of sexual relations. The author draws on the Lacanian logic of sexuation and its interpretation by Joan Copjec and Slavoj Žižek to analyze what he calls “male cinema,” taking as an example Alfonso Cuarón's film Y tu mamá también (2011). The author finds that the conclusions of Laura Mulvey, who was the first to use psychoanalysis as a political weapon to contest the phallocentric depiction of women in Hollywood cinema, were correct, not with respect to the production of a “male gaze” but rather with respect to the cinematic construction of male pleasure, which is the basis of society. He thus argues that it is not by creating an “alternative” cinema that the dominant ideology can be called into question, but rather by using theory as a political weapon. It is the practice of theory which politicizes cinema and the spectator.
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AbstractIn the Greek language of the 1st century Palestinian Judaism, the term koinon indicates ritual impurity. Its use as a criterion of exclusion from the new Jerusalem in Rev. 21,27 stands against all the passages of the New Testament rejecting the very notion of ritual purity and the rules deriving from it. The goal of this article is to draw the attention to this aspect of the Book of Revelation which has been overlooked until now and which should be added to the Jewish side of the work of John of Patmos.
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Based on a two-year field study involving 50 semi-structured interviews with new and long-established shopkeepers in two former working-class Montreal neighbourhoods undergoing gentrification, this paper explores the multifaceted relationship storeowners cultivate with the changing population of their primary catchment area. Moving beyond the stereotypical representations of “new trendy” and “old overwhelmed” shopkeepers, the analysis reveals how business and neighbourhood logics intertwine, sometimes leading to moral dilemmas that shape the interactions with three categories of residents: the target clientele, the undesirables, and the others.
Keywords: commerce, gentrification, quartiers centraux, Montréal, retail, gentrification, inner-city neighbourhoods, Montreal
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Between 1943 and 1951, Robert La Palme presented his caustic vision of the news through thousands of caricatures published in Le Canada, an elite newspaper. His caricatures appeared at a time when women were entering the public sphere and were gaining political rights in Quebec. Through his art, the caricaturist called on a broad range of actors, including women, who were presented as ordinary women, symbolic figures and grotesque caricatures of political figures. To reach an elite readership, La Palme could either adopt the language of the elites or adapt his own to theirs. Also, the caricaturist portrayed conventional gender relationships in his work, above all the domestic ideal of the woman. Certain professions, certain roles for women were thus promoted, and others discouraged, if not entirely ignored. In fact, certain types of women simply did not appear in the caricaturist's field of vision, as if they didn't exist.
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AbstractBy providing a sampling from Kant and Hegel's theories of madness, this article argues that Baudelaire's prose poem “Mademoiselle Bistouri” affords an unexpected lens through which to rethink the term monomania. In the hands of the poem's narrator, mademoiselle Bistouri's idée fixe becomes an antidote to Hegel's unhappy consciousness. Her obsession brings a raison d'être to a world that has relinquished its systems of belief. Gladys Swain's Dialogue avec l'insensé serves as theoretical backbone to the article.
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This article explores the representation of everyday life in contemporary writing as a survival mechanism in the face of traumatic historical events in the novels Le testament français (1995) and La vie d’un homme inconnu (2009) by Franco-Russian writer Andreï Makine.
Keywords: Makine, Makine, Andreï, Andreï, Vie quotidienne, Everyday life, Guerre, War, USSR, URSS, La vie d’un homme inconnu, Le testament français, La vie d’un homme inconnu, Le testament français, Totalitarian regime, Régime totalitaire