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This joint study examines Jacques Ferron's (1921-1985) complex attitude towards Louis Hémon and his original and highly personal reading of the latter's work. Fascinated by Hemon's biography as much as by his work, and feeling a profound affinity with the man, Ferron was particularly alert to what he considered the autobiographical dimension of the Breton writer's fiction. We chose to focus on this biographical association, first identifying the elements that led Ferron to see himself in the other writer, then tracing, through his private correspondence and public writings, the development of his “passion” for Hémon. Our discussion concludes with a close study of the complex Hémonian intertextuality running through Ferron's novel Les roses sauvages, a work where literary criticism is woven into the fiction and where Ferron's own autobiographical project is enriched by his reading of Hémon's life and work. The aim is to highlight this important and little studied instance of Hémon's reception in Quebec and suggest new avenues for interpreting the work of both Ferron and Hémon.
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AbstractThis paper is concerned with the spectacular rise of mass tourism in the small town of Lijiang on the Sino-Tibetan frontier. The author is an anthropologist with 18 years experience in the region, and presents the essay as an ethnographic reflection on the economic and cultural dimensions of the tourism encounter between local Naxi natives and Han and non-Chinese “others”. Despite massive infusions of tourist wealth, some locals are little better off than they were 20 years ago, and for others tourism has led to an intensification of social and ethnic cleavages. Of particular interest are the changing images of “Naxiness” produced in the encounter for tourist consumption, and the ways in which the images become important in the refiguring of Naxi identities.
Keywords: McKhann, tourisme, ethnicité, Chine, Naxi, McKhann, tourism, ethnicity, China, Naxi
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AbstractWoman 's Face. Between Shari'a and CustomsIn Algeria as in ail islamized societies, the conflict between modernists and fundamentalists hides another important conflict between fundamentalism and local customs. The debate about womens' veiled appearance proves it. We are attempting here to show that propagation of the fundamentalist veil manifests both an attack against maghrebian customs and against the maliki school, which for centuries has conciliated literal meaning of the religious law with local norms, litteracy and oral knowledge.Key words : Benkheira, islam, man-woman relationship, tradition, honor, fundamentalism, body
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Some of the individuals who have engaged in prostitution while receiving social assistance, and then received government claims of overpayment of benefits due to this undeclared “income” have mobilized the law by bringing the matter before Quebec's administrative courts. This paper argues that these government claims can be seen to encourage prostitution, in contradiction of the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act and that, as such, many could be characterized as cruel and unusual treatment or punishment under Section 12 of the Canadian Charter, and should therefore be quashed.
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AbstractBetween 1870 and 1920, the voluntary deaths of 13 British Columbian women, identified by coroners and jurors as prostitutes, provoked a response out of all proportion to their numbers. This essay examines this response, focusing first on the narratives created by witnesses at the coroner's inquest on the body, and then on the interpretations of those who did not literally "know" the dead woman. I argue that the bodies of the dead can be read as a text which invoke multiple interpretations and meanings. Running through all the narratives is a discourse of respectability which shifted attention from an examination of the body and morals of one women to that of society as a whole. Those who knew the women read the death in ways that emphasized their own and the deceased's personal connection to the community in which they lived. Coroners, jurors, and the press inscribed their fears of sexual disorder and racial miscegenation upon the bodies of the dead. Through examining and responding to the deaths, the women and men involved in the inquest process helped create and bolster a particular moral and social identity which utilized the prostitute as a metaphor of social evil. When the body of the prostitute no longer evoked this response, prostitutes' deaths were excluded from the inquest process.
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AbstractThis study of Blue Eyes Black Hair by Marguerite Duras analyzes the development of a fiduciary contract, exploring its constitutive intersubjective matrices and proposing a schema that identifies tendencies toward mutuality and autonomy, respectively. The article examines the organization of a narrative of dispossession, identifying contrasts with narratives of the recuperation and of the institution of values. Returning to the problematic of the “ interaction ” of different “ semiotic systems ” entering into a text that A. J. Greimas discusses in On Meaning, the essay strives above all to observe how the two semiotic practices in play, the elaboration of the contract and the response to loss, combine and act one on the other in Duras's work.
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AbstractThe present article addresses a new subject of concern: the impact of their families on victims, either by rendering them vulnerable to human trafficking, or by constituting an obstacle to the victim's attempts to escape the traffickers, once caught in their net. When a woman or child are trafficked, their family situation is of prime importance as far as protection is concerned. Whether these victims fear for their families, or whether they are afraid that they will continue to be exploited by them, it is still essential that family-related problems should be taken into account and provide new avenues for research.
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Chinese capitalist development has highlighted the importance of the mobilization of young workers subjected to a disciplinary work regime in export industries integrated into the world market, the dagongmei. The author proposes a socio-historical analysis of the female workforce in which he suggests the economic importance of the appropriation of women's bodies for Chinese families, he deduces that historically constituted sex relationships link the former sexual division of labor in Imperial China with the labor's mode of regulation found in the special economic zones nowadays. As these sex relations are found at the very heart of capitalism, the author concludes that it is necessary to conceive capitalism and sexage on the same ontological level, that of social practices.
Keywords: capitalisme, colette guillaumin, consubstantialité, Chine, intersectionnalité