In his detective novel, Frédéric Paulin delivers a story about the counter-summit of Genoa which is based both on a personal, generational experience, and on long-term reflection on the security ...policy of the States of the European Union after 11/09. The case of Genoa 2001 illustrates for Paulin the criminalisation of the alter-globalisation movement which is part of the practices of a “negative laboratory” represented by Berlusconian Italy, according to him.
This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and ...Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.
The Roman Republic of Letters Volk, Katharina
Uluslararasi Iliskiler / International Relations,
2021, Letnik:
20, Številka:
80
eBook, Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter ...of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these "senator scholars" as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis.By revealing how first-century Rome's remarkable "republic of letters" was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk's riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.
Cet article analyse l’ensemble des portraits des hommes de la Révolution contenus dans les écrits autobiographiques et historiques de Marie-Jeanne Roland. Cet anti-panthéon, très critique des hommes ...qui occupèrent l’avant-scène de ce tournant des Lumières, sert à dresser, en négatif, le portrait du prototype du héros révolutionnaire, du nouvel être reconstruit après 1789, un idéal tout contraire à cette masculinité en branle que représentent ces hommes lâches, intrigants, incultes et petits, un idéal configuré à partir d’un modèle façonné par elle-même… et qui n’est autre qu’elle-même : en effet, pour Roland, la seule personne capable de prendre les rênes de la Res publica française, le seul vrai homo politicus de son époque, c’est elle-même.
This article analyses the portraits of the men of the Revolution contained in the autobiographical and historical writings by Marie-Jeanne Roland. This anti-pantheon, highly critical of the men who ...occupied the forefront of this part of the Enlightenment, serves to draw, in negative, the portrait of the prototype of the revolutionary hero, of the new being rebuilt after 1789, an ideal quite the opposite of the masculinity in motion represented by these cowardly, scheming, uneducated and petty men, an ideal configured from a model fashioned by herself... and which is none other than herself: Indeed, for Marie-Jeanne Roland, the only person capable of picking up the reins of the French Res publica, the only true homo politicus of her time, is herself.
Resumo O chamado boom do conto brasileiro dos anos 1970 marcou um momento de efervescência do gênero até hoje não igualado. O artigo discute as circunstâncias em que ele ocorreu, tanto econômicas ...quanto políticas. Forma breve, de produção e de consumo muito mais rápidos que o romance, o conto adaptava-se bem às urgências de um tempo em que escritores queriam usar sua arma, a palavra, para se somar à luta contra a ditadura e expor as desigualdades que nos formam.
Abstract The so-called Brazilian short story boom of the 1970s marked a moment of effervescence for the genre, which has not been equaled until today. The article discusses the circumstances in which it took place, both economic and political. A brief narrative, of production and consumption much faster than the novel, the short story was well suited to the urgencies of a time when writers wanted to use their weapon, the word, to join the fight against dictatorship and expose the inequalities that shape us as a society.
Resumen El llamado boom del cuento brasileño de la década de 1970 marcó un momento de efervescencia para el género, que no ha sido igualado hasta hoy. El artículo analiza las circunstancias en las que se produjo, tanto económicas como políticas. Forma breve de producción y consumo mucho más rápido que la novela, el cuento se adaptaba bien a las urgencias de una época en la que los escritores querían utilizar su arma, la palabra, para sumarse a la lucha contra la dictadura y exponer las desigualdades que nos configuran como sociedad.
Seamus Deane and Terence Brown have been two of the most significant voices in Irish literary criticism and culture over the past forty years. This article discusses two highly influential studies of ...theirs, Deane’s Celtic Revivals and Brown’s Ireland: A Social and Cultural History. I read both works as part of an important phase in the development of Irish literary criticism during the 1980s. I compare three aspects of both studies: the role of politics in the critical approaches taken in both works; the different ways in which they tackle the problem of essentialism in Irish culture; their manner of addressing the question of language, in terms of literary language in the case of Deane and the Irish language in the case of Brown. The article highlights some problems that arise in these aspects of the two studies, while also emphasizing their importance for Irish criticism.
More and more works testify to the pictorial turn which marks francophone literary production since the end of the twentieth century, "immersed in the world of the modern images and mass media," as ...Magali Nachtergael pointed out. The textual and visual regimes are thus no longer inscribed in a logic of competition but arranged in a perspective of co-adjunction, of fertile crossings. From this perspective, we examine Affranchissements (2020) by Muriel Pic; this "wandering-book" is structured in six parts which deploy a nonlinear narrative, brimming with many visual materials and where everything starts from "the magical grimoire of a stamp album" and from a "debt to be paid." This article analyzes this fundamentally hybrid book which, in a decompartmentalization of semiotic regimes, activates a poetic plurimateriality and makes of the literary space a-political-place of renewal of the real, of a redrawing of the material and symbolic space, as Jacques Rancière would say.
The Rival Freedoms of Don Quixote Hoerger, Jacob Scott
History of political thought,
11/2023, Letnik:
44, Številka:
4
Journal Article
I view Don Quixote as a representative of Eric Nelson's 'Greek' view of freedom and Sancho Panza as an embodiment of Quentin Skinner's 'neo-Roman' view. Each has their worldview challenged by their ...adventures such that their view- points become reversed by the climax of the novel. I
point to the Greek tradition's entanglement in the Spanish conquest of the Americas as a reason Cervantes would wish to divest his main character of the Greek view. Accordingly, I suggest that the concept of penance plays a crucial role in how the author positions the rival traditions in relation
to Spanish history.
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