Poetiques De La Violence Et Recits Francophones Contemporains
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Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains
Author: Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François
language: fr
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date: 2016-11-07
Face à la surenchère des représentations médiatiques, artistiques et iconographiques de la violence, en quoi consiste le contre-discours qu’articulent les littératures francophones émergentes pour penser les violences du monde contemporain ? En adoptant une approche comparatiste et largement interdisciplinaire, mettant en évidence le travail esthétique et l’engagement éthique d’écrivains issus d’aires géographiques diverses, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François tente, dans Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, de répondre à cette question en mettant en dialogue des récits qui, au constat d’une représentation en crise, d’une banalisation et d’un étalage de la violence, procèdent d’un effet de rupture pour mettre en scène ‘l’irreprésentable.’ En explorant les contours de ces poétiques plurielles de la violence en contexte francophone et postcolonial, cette étude nous invite à une lecture transnationale des enjeux thématiques, éthiques et esthétiques qu’elles soulèvent. In his comparative interdisciplinary study, Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François examines what constitutes the counter-discourse that emerging Francophone literatures articulate to think through the dynamics of violence in our contemporary world in view of the proliferation of artistic, iconographic and media representations of violence effecting our perception of our environment. In the context of the trivialization of violence, and the crisis of representation that this phenomenon produces, he underscores both the aesthetic and ethical engagement of writers from a wide range of geographical regions, by bringing together literary texts that develop a new poetics of violence, characterized by a break in the aesthetic values usually associated with the ‘unrepresentable.’ By exploring the stylistic, historical and thematic contours of these Francophone and postcolonial texts, his study invites us to better understand the thematic, aesthetic and ethic issues they raise.
Mediating Violence from Africa
Author: George S. MacLeod
language: en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date: 2023-10
Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post-Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras, included the use of child soldiers facilitated by the Soviet Union's castoff Kalashnikov rifles, the rise of Islamist terrorism in West Africa, and the horrific genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Through close readings of fictionalized child-soldier narratives, cinematic representations of Islamist militants, genocide survivor testimony, and Western scholarship, George S. MacLeod analyzes the ways Francophone African authors and filmmakers, as well as their editors and scholarly critics, negotiate the aesthetic, political, cultural, and ethical implications of making these traumatic stories visible. MacLeod argues for the need to periodize these productions within a "post-Cold War" framework to emphasize how shifts in post-1989 political discourse are echoed, contested, or subverted by contemporary Francophone authors, filmmakers, and Western scholars. The questions raised in Mediating Violence from Africa are of vital importance today. How the world engages with and responds to stories of recent violence and loss from Africa has profound implications for the affected communities and individuals. More broadly, in an era in which stories and images of violence, from terror attacks to school shootings to police brutality, are disseminated almost instantly and with minimal context, these theoretical questions have implications for debates surrounding the ethics of representing trauma, the politicization of memory, and Africa's place in a global (as opposed to a postcolonial or Euro-African) economic and political landscape.
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare's dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan political culture and renewed attention to neglected continental accounts of Elizabeth I. With fresh perspective, the book charts the profound influence that Shakespeare and ambitious courtiers had upon succeeding generations of European writers, dramatists and audiences following the turn of the sixteenth century. Informed by early modern and contemporary cultural debate, this book demonstrates how the study of early modern violence can illuminate ongoing crises of interpretation concerning brutality, victimization and complicity today.