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Gandhi’s and Ambedkar’s views on caste: the representation of historical figures in Arundhati Roy’s «The Doctor and the Saint»
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[Fiche] In ((The Doctor and the Saint)), Arundhati Roy compares and contrasts the lives and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution. Analyzing the two men's trajectories, Roy seeks to explain their conflict on the subject of Untouchability during the Second Round Table Conference (1931). In doing so, she dismantles the myth of Gandhi's sainthood and radical progressivism while defending and justifying Ambedkar's attack on Hinduism. Through its references to Narendra Modi's career, ((The Doctor and the Saint)) also offers insight into India's contemporary politics. 2024-03-14T15:03:02ZDocument"This World Uncertain Is": The Environmental Humanities from an Early Modern Ecological Perspective
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-britannique/the-environmental-humanities-from-an-early-modern-ecological-perspective
[Conference] How can words and concepts from the Early Modern period help us address today's environmental issues? In this talk, Lowell Duckert outlines the basic tenets of the Environmental Humanities and the different methodologies this field draws on, before giving examples of Early Modern texts describing ecological issues. 2024-02-16T07:11:42ZDocument“Somewhere between coloured and white”: ambivalence and loss of bearings in Caryl Phillips’ «A View of the Empire at Sunset»
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[Fiche] In ((A View of the Empire at Sunset)), Caryl Phillips proposes a fictionalised version of the life of novelist Jean Rhys – a Creole woman from Dominica expatriated in Europe – as a mirror image of the decline and dissolution of the British colonial Empire over the course of the 20th century. By depicting the protagonist’s struggle to find a sense of belonging, the novel highlights how colonial subjects may be confronted to a feeling of identity ambivalence and a loss of bearings.2024-02-14T09:17:40ZDocumentLe genre du "Refugee writing" : définitions et formes littéraires
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[Conférence] Cette page propose trois interventions sur le genre du "Refugee writing". Vanessa Guignery présente tout d'abord les modalités et définitions de ce genre, puis Jaine Chemmachery analyse les formes littéraires et intermédiales des ((Refugee Tales)), inspirées des ((Canterbury Tales)) de Chaucer, et du projet "28 for 28". Enfin, Cédric Courtois se penche sur la forme de la nouvelle, qui a pu être qualifiée de "mineure" et que les autrices de son corpus ont choisie pour rendre compte d’expériences vécues par des personnes vulnérables et marginalisées. 2024-02-06T09:52:48ZDocumentL'architecture organique de Frank Lloyd Wright au prisme de la philosophie américaine
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[Conférence] À travers trois réalisations de l'architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Céline Bonicco-Donato analyse la manière dont celui-ci s'est inspiré de plusieurs courants de la philosophie américaine (notamment le transcendantalisme de Ralph Waldo Emerson et le pragmatisme de John Dewey) afin de développer sa propre philosophie architecturale et urbaine, travaillée par deux grands principes : "l'intérieur est un dehors, l'extérieur est un dedans" et "la partie est à la partie ce que la partie est au tout".2024-01-18T09:16:31ZDocumentImages of Erudite Femininity: Capturing the learned/knowledgeable woman in 19th-century visual arts (part 2: Pre-Raphaelite artists' female perspective)
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Pre-Raphaelite women artists assimilated the type of the erudite woman that had been forged by their male counterparts: they complied with the canon, yet slightly shifted it by softening the usual rejection of the learned woman and emphasising the idea of freedom linked to the possession of knowledge. From the (twin) figures of the governess and the Angel in the House (two forms of possession of knowledge deemed acceptable for women by Victorian society) to the image of the sorceress (the embodiment of Evil), by way of the representation or lack of representation of the professional scholar woman, we shall endeavour to embrace the different types of knowledgeable women created by women artists in 19th-century British art.2024-03-07T09:47:24ZDocumentImages of Erudite Femininity: Capturing the learned/knowledgeable woman in the 19th-century visual arts (part 1: Pre-Raphaelite artists' male perspective)
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/arts/peinture/images-of-erudite-femininity-part-1
Very few representations of female knowledge can be found in Pre-Raphaelite paintings without them being imbued with a threatening dimension. Female knowledge is necessarily associated with the representation of a domesticated woman, echoing the recommendations of the time defined, for example, by John Ruskin in ((Sesame and Lilies)). On the contrary, the aim of the pictures of learned women was to send a warning against the deadly potential of woman's unwonted curiosity through the use of mythological figures, such as Pandora, Psyche or Cassandra, ultimately leading to the lurking image of the castrating prophetess or sorceress.2023-12-15T14:28:46ZDocumentA voice and a place of one’s own: women, knowledge and empowerment in Charlotte Brontë’s «Jane Eyre»
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The article deals with women and knowledge in Charlotte Brontë’s ((Jane Eyre)) (1847). The novel was quite revolutionary in its time for its strong assertion of female agency and self-empowerment and a keen perception of power dynamics inherent in the definition of gender and gender roles. However considering ((Jane Eyre)) through the sole prism of a novel of emancipation only dealing with women’s rights and aspirations would be reductive. ((Jane Eyre))’s fiery narrative is a strong plea against all forms of intersectional oppression in Victorian times despite its own unconscious bias relative to ethnicity and the colonial question notably. 2023-11-17T13:48:46ZDocument“Captives of ignorance”? Women, education and knowledge in the Victorian period
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This article provides an overview of the different ways in which women were educated in the Victorian period, from home-schooling to private day-schools and boarding schools. While the campaign for educational reform was seen, within the context of the Industrial Revolution and the growing feminist movement, as a key to freedom, improvements in female education were also met with resistance.2023-11-17T13:53:13ZDocumentFrench Toast, Fatherhood and Fallibility in «Kramer vs Kramer» (1979)
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In 1979, Robert Benton’s film ((Kramer vs Kramer)) set a new path for family dramas in Hollywood. The acclaimed movie follows the journey of Ted Kramer from absent to great father as a single dad, including a portrayal of his failures and vulnerabilities. His divorce and unusual position as the main care-taker of his child changed the perception of the father’s role not only in the movies, but also in American households.2024-02-06T09:53:15ZDocumentConditions de vérité et stéréotypes dans les généralisations sur les sujets humains
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Cet article a pour objectif de dépasser les études classiques sur les conditions de vérité des généralisations et ainsi de mettre en lumière ce qui se joue lorsque sont pris en compte les sujets humains et les stéréotypes qui leur sont associés. Nous partons d’un état de l’art qui nous mène à examiner les conséquences sémantiques de l’ajout de l’adjectif ((typical)) aux groupes nominaux dans les généralisations. Nous cherchons à examiner la notion de ((vérité)) afin de considérer sa pertinence lorsque l’on envisage les sujets humains, qui sont intrinsèquement marqués par la diversité. Nous nous demandons si de telles généralisations sont compatibles avec les conditions de vérité, qui forment le cœur de la recherche sur le générique.2023-11-08T08:55:23ZDocumentQuestion d'actualité - Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia
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On the 14th of October 2023, Australian voters will be called upon to participate in the Voice to Parliament referendum, which proposes to enshrine in the Constitution an Indigenous voice to parliament. La Clé des langues has selected a number of articles, videos and fact sheets in order to better understand this historic national vote. 2023-10-19T05:40:30ZDocumentGeneric reference: the exceptional status of human nouns
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This article examines the particular status of generic references (statements that assign a characteristic to a class or subclass) that concern human subjects. While such statements are often described as interchangeable, our study shows that each form of generic reference has social implications when human subjects are under study. Between non-acceptability, the expression of stereotypes and a need for context which is usually absent in studies, human nouns highlight more than ever the relationship between grammar and semantics within generic references.2023-10-10T14:26:55ZDocumentQuestion d'actualité - The Cost of the British Monarchy
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The coronation of King Charles III on the 6th of May 2023 has provoked much debate in the United Kingdom: the cost of living crisis, worsened by inflation, has prompted many citizens to criticise the large sums spent on royal festivities. This points to growing scepticism regarding the cost and relevance of the Royal Family, especially since the death of Queen Elizabeth II. This page provides resources to help understand the cost and finances of the monarchy and the royalist and antiroyalist sentiments of the British people.2023-10-02T13:18:27ZDocumentPersuasive speaking and how to improve LLCER students' communication skills
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Dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'Université Grenoble Alpes, l'Ecole académique de formation continue (EAFC) et les IA-IPR d'anglais de l'académie de Grenoble, des professeurs d'anglais de lycée qui dispensent l'enseignement de spécialité LLCER Anglais ont assisté à une conférence intitulée "Persuasive speaking and how to improve LLCER students' communication skills" animée par Laure Gardelle.2023-10-02T14:43:18ZDocumentThere and back: Circularity in Jane Campion’s «The Piano» (1993)
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The commercial and critical success of Jane Campion’s third feature-length film ((The Piano)) (1993) paired with the accolades it received (three Academy Awards, a César and the first Palme d’Or for a female director) cemented the reputation of the New Zealand director. ((The Piano)) is a period drama set in the beginning of the 19th century which centres on the mute Scottish woman Ada McGrath who, together with her daughter and her piano, travels to New Zealand to be married to a frontiersman.2024-03-18T13:50:10ZDocumentFrom page to screen: between betrayal and re-creation in the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s «Half of a Yellow Sun»
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This article examines the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 novel, ((Half of a Yellow Sun)). Released in 2014, Biyi Bandele’s adaptation was often criticized for its alleged betrayal of the original text. The task of adapting a novel of more than four hundred pages in a film of less than two hours was particularly daunting. Yet, it remains to be seen whether the film deserved to be labelled as unfaithful. Rather than judging the worth of an adaptation based on its degree of loyalty to the source text, spectators could also regard the adaptation as a commentary and even possibly as an independent work of art. Relying on adaptation theory, this paper will consider whether Bandele’s infidelities allow for a potential re-reading of Adichie’s novel.2023-09-11T09:54:26ZDocumentExperimental Life-Writing: From Roland Barthes to Digital Biography
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This talk examines a variety of instances of contemporary experimental life-writing – a critical category theorised by Irene Kacandes (2012) and Julia Novak (2017). After defining the notion and providing a brief historical overview of formally unconventional auto/biographies, Wojciech Drąg introduces his research project concerned with life-writing works that renounce a narrative structure in favour of an archive (or a database). He then proposes a classification of archival subgenres that have been particularly prominent in Anglophone and French auto/biographical literature since the 1970s. Based on their adopted system of arranging data, this talk differentiates between the bibliography (e.g., Rick Moody's ((Primary Sources))), the encyclopedia (Amy Krouse Rosenthal's ((Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life))), the glossary (((Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes))), the index (Joan Wickersham's ((The Suicide Index))), the chronicle (Tan Lin’s ((BIB., Rev. Ed.))), the social media archive (Matias Viegener’s ((2500 Random Things About Me Too))), the inventory (Claude Closky’s ((Mon Catalogue))), the list (Joe Brainard's ((I Remember))), the portfolio (Dana Teen Lomax's ((Disclosure))), the computation (Gregory Burnham's ((Subtotals))) and the digital database (David Clark's ((88 Constellations for Wittgenstein))).2023-09-11T10:07:36ZDocumentPostcolonialism and its Discontents: Towards Polycoloniality
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Connected to the question of nationalistic and identitarian assertions versus the other-regarding 'worlding' of literary-critical praxis is the question of the Global South – questions more specifically connected to colonialism, postcolonial discourse, and new-imperialism. To what extent can postcolonialism offer a suitable methodological toolkit for studying literature today? Conversely, what are some of the current discontents with postcolonialism, arising particularly from emerging insights into colonialism and literary production from the Global South? To answer these questions, this lecture probes into the different strands of recent critiques of postcolonialism as an adequate method of literary criticism. It also focuses on one of the primary research outputs of the current lecturer, which has been in the area of 'polycoloniality', or the multiple and productive strands of networked and mutually competitive colonial processes, which have always been multinational rather than mononational – with there being colonial efforts in South Asia, for instance, not just by the English (as is often presumed) but by the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish, 'Germans', etc, too. This lecture examines this further, particularly in relation to France's involvement in colonial projects in South Asia.2023-09-11T10:07:53ZDocumentFrom National Literatures to World Literature
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If, rather than being rooted in sectarian identity politics, reading strategies for literary and cultural
practice have to be other-regarding, and not be cocooned within one’s self-same monolingual and
monocultural universes, it calls for translation and comparative literature – where one goes beyond
literary and cultural texts in one’s own language and reaches out to the other – to become mainstays
of such a practice. To what extent would an emphasis on going beyond one’s own identitarian literary
universes require one to align with the project of World Literature, considering further the question of access to ‘worlding’ and canonization in a deeply differential globalized world? The role played by
translation and comparative literature in leading pedagogic praxes beyond national monolingual
literatures towards the ethical and other-regarding project of World Literature will be examined in this
lecture with particular reference to the Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore’s views on the same.2023-09-11T10:07:14ZDocument‘Literary Theory’, Ideology-Critique, and Beyond
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This first lecture focuses on recent developments in the area of Literary Theory, or to be more
specific, on how ideology critique, which would have been one of the methodological mainstays of
reading literature and culture under the aegis of Literary Theory, has been challenged over the last
couple of decades, in the form of post-critical and post-theoretical developments, to lead to more
‘affective’ modes of dealing with literature and culture. The move, from the late 1990s, towards literary
pedagogic practices being oriented more towards affect and enjoyment has been complicated,
however, over the last few years with an unforeseen rise in cybernetic cultures including the social
media, the global rise of sectarianism and new-fascisms, and the unforeseen pandemic situation,
having ushered discursivity and narrativity, on an unprecedented scale, into regimes of fake news and
post-truth. Is there a need, therefore, to revitalize ideology critique as one of the primary modes of
studying literature and culture? Or, considering that ideology is itself, by definition, false
consciousness, and ideological interpellation is always connected to projections of identities, and thus
identity politics, is there a need for strengthening a literary critical practice that is otherwise than
ideological – premised on a robust economy of Truth and an ethical outlook of being other-regarding,
rather than being sectarian and identitarian?2023-09-11T10:07:53ZDocumentLiterature, Sound and the Egyptian Uprising
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Egypt's Arab Spring was experienced as a mediated event in two notable ways. First, in the immediate successes of Tahrir Square, Facebook was heralded as a fundamental agent of the uprising and responsible for the fall of Mubarak. Second, the failure of the 'Spring' with the election of an Islamist and a counter-revolution that saw the rise of a military dictatorship, news reports sought to make sense of the country's rapidly flailing political fortunes. Missing from both these forms of mediation are the voices of the rioters, their coordinated spontaneity and their very acts of resistance. While numerous images of the protests were captured, individual stories and lives were drowned out by the raucous cacophony of the masses. Assuming an extended view of the media terrain that recorded the uprising, this seminar seeks to recover the lost voices of Egypt's Arab Spring. It focuses on two novels by Robert Omar Hamilton and Yasmin El Rashid to drill down into how intimate stories and individual voices provide an alternative method to inform our knowledge of crowd violence. It will illustrate how narrative discourses can contribute in critical and strategic ways to reclaiming what has been lost or unheard in the seeming media decadence that characterised the uprising. 2023-09-11T10:07:47ZDocumentThe United States, climate, and the rest of the world
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/civilisation/domaine-americain/la-place-des-etats-unis-dans-le-monde/the-united-states-climate-and-the-rest-of-the-world
Dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'Université Grenoble Alpes, l'Ecole académique de formation continue (EAFC) et les IA-IPR d'anglais de l'académie de Grenoble, des professeurs d'anglais de lycée qui dispensent l'enseignement de spécialité LLCER Anglais monde contemporain ont assisté à une conférence intitulée "The United-States, climate, and the rest of the world" animée par Jean-Daniel Collomb.2023-12-19T12:52:46ZDocumentDe "sujets" à "objets de discours" : exclusion et affabulation dans trois nouvelles de Jean Rhys
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-postcoloniale/exclusion-et-affabulation-dans-trois-nouvelles-de-jean-rhys
Cet article examine trois nouvelles de Jean Rhys, « Again the Antilles » (1927), « Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers » (1969), et « Fishy Waters » (1976). Conçues comme un cycle de nouvelles, toutes trois mettent en scène un personnage récurrent et déclinent le thème de la mise au ban d’un homme par la communauté créole. Cette exclusion, loin de n’être qu’un phénomène social, est avant tout un phénomène discursif qui évacue la voix des marginaux et permet à Jean Rhys de proposer une satire de la culture dominante blanche et d’une certaine tendance à l’affabulation.2023-12-08T09:24:31ZDocumentCrafting a poetic voice as a 21st century Indian woman – An introduction to Menka Shivdasani
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-postcoloniale/introduction-to-menka-shivdasani
This article aims at shedding light on the work of Menka Shivdasani, a key figure of contemporary Indian poetry in English. It highlights her involvement in the collective poetry scene of Mumbai and her commitment to connect it to the world. It also focuses on the singular poetic voice she elaborates in the personal itinerary of her poetic work, shaping the self-portrait of a woman poetess in contemporary India.2023-01-12T13:34:02ZDocumentQuestion d'actualité - Roe v. Wade
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/civilisation/domaine-americain/question-dactualite-roe-v-wade
L'arrêt Roe v. Wade a été annulé le 24 juin 2022 aux États-Unis. La Clé anglaise propose une sélection de ressources sur cette décision de la Cour Suprême et ses conséquences dramatiques.2023-07-06T13:43:30ZDocumentAlienation and defamiliarization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s «Americanah» (2013)
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-postcoloniale/alienation-and-defamiliarization-in-americanah-2013
In ((Americanah)), Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of high school lovers Ifemelu and Obinze, their experiences of migration to the US and the UK, and their reunion 13 years later back in Nigeria. Through the means of defamiliarization and the depiction of Ifemelu’s sense of alienation in the US, Adichie sheds new light on America’s relationship with race and racism. 2022-10-20T14:27:13ZDocumentAt the Intersection(s) of Aesthetics and Politics: Bernardine Evaristo’s « Girl, Woman, Other » (2019)
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-postcoloniale/bernardine-evaristo-girl-woman-other-2019
Even before winning the prestigious Booker Prize in 2019, Bernardine Evaristo had been an integral part of the British literary landscape, not only because of her experimental style, but also due to her activism and wish to cut down discrimination in the literary institution. In ((Girl, Woman, Other)), the British writer with Nigerian and Irish roots, attempts to give a voice to Black British women, who have long been invisible and voiceless in the public sphere. 2023-09-21T07:32:35ZDocumentG.K. Chesterton, penseur critique de la culture de masse ?
https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-britannique/g-k-chesterton-penseur-critique-de-la-culture-de-masse
L’enjeu de cet article est d’envisager G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) comme un penseur critique original de la culture de masse en Grande-Bretagne, à une époque traversée par une crise politique et sociale mais aussi culturelle. Héritier d’une tradition conservatrice d’écrits critiques sur la culture contemporaine, Chesterton s’écarte de la vision prédominante d’une culture de masse dangereuse et dégradante et décide plutôt de l’envisager comme un sujet d’étude fécond.2023-09-11T09:54:44ZDocumentThe tumultuous history of the right to vote in the U.S.
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This presentation aims at giving an overview of the history of the right to vote in the United States, from the Founding Fathers to voter suppression in the twenty-first century.2023-12-19T12:53:02ZDocument