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Keywords: Henri IV, Nouvelle-France, tolérance, concorde, Autochtones
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Dragon Ball, one of the best-selling comics of all time, has recieved alot of fan content all along the years. Some readers of Akira Toriyama's manga series have created fanfictions depicting the main characters in our modern world, transposed as sterotypical muslim chraracters. It began as a simple prank, then initiated a wide debate among the fans discussing the possible parallels between the stereotypes in popular manga series for young boys and the stereotypes associated with men with a cultural muslim background in France and French North Africa. This article is a retrospective about the reasons why Dragon Ball has the reputation to be a manga with almost universal popularity, and focusing on the particular case of its appropriation by the muslim community in France and French speaking Africa.
Keywords: Dragon Ball, Fanfiction, Afrique, Maghreb, Manga, Dragon Ball, Fandom, Africa, Maghreb, Manga
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Literature's lack of social legitimacy—a fact on which today's critics agree—does not mean that the public figure of the writer, or the writer's words, are banished: a number of periodicals, in the 1990s and 2000s, continue to publish columns and occasional pieces by contemporary authors. Two free cultural weeklies, Ici and Voir, reproduce traditional newspapers' practice of seeking regular contributions from writers. This article examines the column “Hors champ” published by novelist Nicolas Dickner in Voir from 2006 to 2012. Observing in some two hundred short texts, published over a period of six years, the interaction between the very wide remit that the weekly gave Dickner and the way in which he appropriated it, by investing the form and through his choice of topics, we will attempt to show how one figure of the Québec writer in the 2000s decade has been constructed and to question its meaning. We will look at some of the analogical mechanisms used by Dickner to try and define his craft and, at the same time, the role of literature in contemporary society.
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What have we learned from the recent wealth of studies about the Early Modern French Atlantic, produced by both Francophone and Anglophone historians ? This historiographical survey focuses on three aspects of the issue : a refining and questioning of the Atlantic model as a coherent and integrated economic space ; slavery, its consequences and its forms of resistance ; and the creation and circulation of knowledge. Studies about regional and individual specificities are particularly enlightening in this matter. Some potential avenues for further research are also suggested.
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AbstractThis article proposes to analyze the scope and function of daily life in Élise Turcotte's minimalist novel, Le Bruit des choses vivantes. Rather than considering daily life as a privileged object of fiction focusing on the private world, we will ask how daily life is constructed, and how its value is emphasized, in the novel. Conversely, we will see how the novel's narrative development uses daily life as its basis. The goal is to take a second look at what may be a too-facile equation between daily life, the fiction of the private world, and minimalism. While attempting to identify more clearly the narrative issues associated with daily life, we will attempt to determine what defines the “minor key” in this novel.
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In her article, Annaëlle Winand introduces us to the use of archives by artists for experimental purposes in films and videos. With an overview of current literature on the subject, she seeks to identify the preoccupations of these researchers. What are artists' interests in archives ? What issues are related to the mingling of cinema and archives ? First, the author brings into question the definition of what is meant by ‘archive'. She reviews a structure of analysis that is common to the literature on the subject : temporality, historicity, and memory – all three common to both archives and cinema. Finally, she promotes collaboration among artists, archivists, and researchers, as a way of coming at a deeper understanding of archives, but also the problems their use presents, including preservation, conservation, and access, especially in the digital era.The use of archives in films by artists for experimental purposes is especially interesting because they see the documents outside their context and in a new light.
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In 2019, the Notre-Dame de Paris was devastated by a fire. The importance of the Notre-Dame as world heritage was underlined by the countless contributions, donations and solidarity all around the world that pledged to help to rebuild the cathedral. Among all contributions Ubisoft’s idea to offer its game Assassin's Creed: Unity for free to the public was arguably most celebrated as innovative and creative measure to secure heritage in case of its destruction. This case opens up new perspectives and roles of heritage management as also the development and distribution of video games in the twenty first century. The case of Ubisoft’s Notre-Dame is discussed in this paper under a comparative analysis to the game Never Alone and a critical inquiry towards the benefits, consequences and repercussions of the growing importance of synchronising heritage protection with video game production. Also, the perceptive aspect of connecting to heritage as player through a game and its spatial aspects will be explained under Chapman’s concept of narrative gardens.
Keywords: Notre-Dame, Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Digital Heritage, Game Studies