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Ni héros, ni victimes : portraits de travailleurs manuels dans la littérature indienne contemporaine

Par Vanessa Guignery

[Conférence] À travers les exemples de ((A Free Man)) (2011) d’Aman Sethi et ((Bicycle Dreaming)) (2016) de Mridula Koshy, Vanessa Guignery analyse comment la littérature indienne peut représenter les populations défavorisées, tout en évitant les récits d'abjection et d'émancipation.
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“They are Blind to Mahmood Hussein Mattan”: Exposing Institutional Racism in Nadifa Mohamed’s « The Fortune Men »

Par Pauline Tauzin

[Fiche] In ((The Fortune Men)), Nadifa Mohamed proposes a fictional account of the 1952 Mattan case, in which Mahmood Mattan, a Somali merchant seaman, was wrongly condemned and executed for the murder of a woman in Cardiff. Through the medium of the novel, the author insists on Mahmood’s agency and dignity in the face of a dehumanizing judicial system, thereby exposing the racism that pervades British institutions.
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Porte-clés grammatical

15 fiches de grammaire qui permettent d'articuler savoir théorique sur la langue anglaise et mise en œuvre pédagogique pour faciliter le traitement de fondamentaux de l’anglais en contexte auprès d’élèves de différents niveaux.
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