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This article proposes to demonstrate how certain creators in contemporary theatre aim for an inform, a sense of à venir (“to come”) in their work (Blanchot, 1959), which opens a boundless field of fictional constructions. Our hypothesis is rooted in the minoration (reductive) process (Deleuze, 1979), which involves voluntarily weakening or removing one or more of the inherent elements of a work. In keeping with this, the three works examined call for more active participation on the part of the viewer. Blind Cinema (2015) by Britt Hatzius relies on the principle of masking. Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre (2013) removes text from the performance in order to enshroud fiction in the bodies of the performers. La chambre sonore de la maladie de la mort (2018) by L'eau du bain is committed to a scenic writing in conditional that prohibits the affirmation of a narrative.
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In the publishing world, Les éditions Dominique et compagnie is positioned somewhere between the economic and the cultural-economic spheres. With this positioning in mind, we can see how discourses of reading based on the pleasures of reading arose in this publishing house. These discourses form part of the development of theories of literary reading. They reveal the horizon of expectations (as defined by Jauss, 1978) and the two poles of reading, the “playing” and “game” poles (as developed by Picard). These discourses on reading are addressed to several recipients at once: children aged three to five, parent-mediators, librarians in public and school libraries, guidance counselors, and booksellers.
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Keywords: Littératie multimodale, compétence multimodale, compétence en lecture littéraire, ingénierie didactique
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In theatre from the 20th century to the present, when the body, gestures and physical actions have gradually become central to theatrical practices and theoretical reflection, the dialectic between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between the everyday and the uncommon, becomes the main issue. This article examines different ways in which contemporary dance and theatre artists conceived and worked on those relations. Two main trends are apparent: the first is a tendency to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary (with, of course, a large variety of possible positions and results); the second involves a search for the extraordinary through distance from / opposition to the ordinary, in quest of a whole different dimension of gesture and physical action, which the performer attempts to find or reactivate in the depths of his body-memory.
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This article proposes a comparative reading of two short stories, whose authors benefited from the network built around the prestigious Caine Prize : « The Sale » by Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe, 2012) and « The Road Workers of Chalbi » by Dalle Abraham (Kenya, 2015). The two short stories exhibit important thematic and formal differences : one is set in contemporary times and describes the relationships of Kenyan villagers and Chinese workers, characterised by an obsessive fear of rape ; the other projects itself into a distant future to imagine « the sale » of Zimbabwe to a Sino-American capitalist empire. In spite of these diverging narrative options, the two short stories nevertheless paint a similar portrait of Chinafrica, which can also be found in the pages of the Black Panther comic book scenarized by Reginald Hudlin : in this respect, they are part of what could be called a literary geopolitics, featuring at least three decisive actors – China, Africa, and the West (Europe and America).
Keywords: afrofuturisme, géopolitique littéraire, Kenya, Zimbabwe, anthologies, études culturelles
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To avoid the eternal pitfall of dogmatism and relativism, it is useful to conceptually construct and practice an ethics, inspired by Deleuze's reading of Spinoza, conceived as an ethology and thought in terms of power rather than essence. Also following the Marxian idea according to which “the human essence […] is the set of social relations” (6th thesis on Feuerbach), such ethics will be deployed in its social and political dimensions, against a tendency to think of it according to the atomist and essentialist mode of ought-to-be. Ethics thus conceived is neither an individual search aimed at being at peace with oneself nor the colonization of others by one's morality, but a collective effort to highlight in their historicity and communicate the tensions that pass through us, tensions sometimes productive, sometimes contradictory and antagonistic, in a creative perspective. The article will present some proposals for practical workshops linked to this concept.
Keywords: Spinoza, Marx, politique, éducation à l'éthique, conscience historique, Spinoza, Marx, politics, ethics education, historical consciousness
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Writers have a privileged relationship with the dictionary. Therefore, it is not surprising to come upon references to this close and gallant writing companion in novels written by French authors. Dictionaries are depicted from different points of view by the very characters writers create: as indispensible supporting material, as metaphor or simply as a decorative element in the scenes they occupy. For these characters, the dictionary enjoys a great variety of uses: it is a reference-work they cannot do without, an authority, a way of making a living, and, as the case may be, the work of a lifetime. It can be pure object, serving at times as an ornament, even as a pillow; it may be an object of theft and is especially useful as a projectile. Large or small, and often dilapidated, the dictionary is associated with the intellectual, the savant, the schoolteacher and especially the student. From excerpts of novels, as supplied by Frantext and Gallica databases, we have extracted multiple images of the dictionary provided by French authors.
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One characterized by its insularity and remoteness from major sea trade routes, the Pacific Ocean region is becoming a focal point of international relations. Since the end of the Second World War, a complex and multifaceted multilateral architecture was implemented, resulting in the creation of multiple multilateral institutions. Numerous regional powers also exert a growing influence by addressing bilateral and minilateral policies towards Pacific Island countries. The emergence of the Indo-Pacific framework, a new concept in international relations adopted by many regional powers, questions the significance of the Pacific Ocean region within this new geopolitical landscape.
Keywords: Pacifique océanien, multilatéralisme, Indo-Pacifique, relations internationales, géopolitique, Pacific Ocean, multilateralism, Indo-Pacific, international relations, geopolitics