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L’image de la Chinoise « désexuée » sous le regard de Beauvoir : De la critique à l’idéalisation
Résumé Dans La longue marche, essai sur la Chine (Gallimard, 1957), malgré son admiration pour le pays maoïste, Beauvoir aborde un phénomène social controversé qui est la « désexualisation » de la femme chinoise. La réception beauvoirienne, en cette matière, est assez particulière, car elle témoigne d’une rupture entre l’horizon d’attente et le présent.
Yangyang Liu
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ABSTRACT Torres Strait (TS), on Australia's north‐east border, has a long history of research on pœrapœral kulal: powerful stones. Pœrapœral kulal contain vital power from site‐of‐origin and therefore their movement across the Coral‐Arafura Sea corridor provides important information about past and present human relationships (Elu 2004).
Rod Mitchell +4 more
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Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
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Economy and ethics in the cosmic process⋆
Abstract When T.H. Huxley lectured on evolution and ethics in 1893, his critique of the amoral laws of the ‘cosmic process’ left his audience puzzled. While Huxley paid little attention to political and economic institutions, this article draws attention to the historical materialism of that era and its twentieth‐century legacies.
Chris Hann
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Profils d’un lectorat: Enquête sur les signatures d’énigmes du Mercure de France (1724‐1778)
Abstract Little is known about the distribution of ancien régime French periodicals and there are few sources on readers’ geographical origins and social positions. Most studies rely on subscriber lists, but subscription is not the only possible mode of acquisition.
Timothée Léchot
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Ceux du lointain de Patricia Cottron‐Daubigné
Résumé Le livre de poésie Ceux du lointain (2017) de Patricia Cottron‐Daubigné ressort à un versant de la littérature contemporaine qui s’intéresse aux représentations des personnes migrantes. L’objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence les processus par lesquels l’auteure fait voir au lecteur la vie, et non la survie ou non‐vie, de migrants ...
Dominique Ninanne
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Abstract This article explores the material practices through which lower‐caste and poor villagers engage with bureaucracy in contemporary India. We take documents and paperwork – such as ration cards and community certificates – as a ‘lens’ through which to explore how paper materiality is infused with the politics of power, patronage, and identity ...
Grace Carswell, Geert De Neve
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Religiosity and its others: lived Islam in West Africa and South India
Drawing on research about settings in South India and West Africa characterised by significant religious diversity, we reflect on the ways in which everyday religiosity among contemporary Muslims is constituted through difference and contestation. Our cases are from two ostensibly secular states – India and Nigeria – both former British colonies where ...
Filippo Osella, Benjamin Soares
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Au lendemain des attentats de 2015 et de l’arrivée, cet été-là, de nombreux migrants en Europe, que nous apprend la littérature française contemporaine sur le délitement des liens sociaux résultant de l’érosion de repères communs ?
Leïla Ennaïli
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Pierrine Poget et les fondations de l’écriture
Cet article propose un commentaire de Fondations (2017) et de Warda s’en va (2021) de Pierrine Poget, qui montre comment la réparation des blessures intimes et le discours sur le monde y sont à la fois joués et déjoués, dans le sens d’une modestie du ...
Daniele Carluccio
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