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Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies

Author : Siham Bouamer,Loïc Bourdeau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030953577

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This edited volume presents new and original approaches to teaching the French foreign-language curriculum, reconceptualizing the French classroom through a more inclusive lens. The volume engages with a broad range of scholars to facilitate an understanding of the process of French (de)colonization as well as its reverberations into the postcolonial era, and a deeper engagement with the global interconnectedness of these processes. Chapters in Part I revist the concept of the "francophonie," decenter the field from “metropolitan” or “hexagonal” and white France and underline how current teaching materials reproduce epistemic and colonial violence. Part II adopts an intersectional approach to address topics of gender inclusivity, trans-affirming teaching, queer materials, and ableism. Finally, Part III presents new ways to transform the discipline by affirming our commitment to social justice and making sure that our classrooms are representative of our students’ enriching diversity.

French Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Author : Anastasios Brenner,Jean Gayon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402093685

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Having examined previous volumes of the Boston Studies series devoted to different countries, and having discussed the best way to present contemporary research in France, we have arrived at a careful selection of 15 participants, including the organizers. Our aim is to bring together philosophers and practicing scientist from the major institutions of the country, both universities and research centers. The areas of research represented here cover a wide spectrum of sciences, from mathematics and physics to the life sciences, as well as linguistics and economics. This selection is a showcase of French philosophy of science, illustrating the different methods employed: logico-linguistic analysis, rational reconstruction and historical inquiry. These participants have the ability to relate their research both to the French tradition and current discussions on the international scene. Also included is a substantial historical introduction, explaining the development of philosophy of science in France, the various schools of thought and methods as well as the major concepts and their significance.

Current Research in French Studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0904008150

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French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Masha Belenky,Kathryn Kleppinger,Anne O’Neil-Henry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496383

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French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century by Masha Belenky,Kathryn Kleppinger,Anne O’Neil-Henry Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes previously understudied sources from nineteenth- and twentieth- century France and the Francophone world and situates them in their social, cultural and political contexts.

Life as a Bilingual

Author : François Grosjean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108838641

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Life as a Bilingual by François Grosjean Pdf

A book on those who know and use two or more languages: Who are they? How do they do it?

Past Imperfect

Author : Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800345461

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This book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art) history. In this discussion, a specific focus is placed on temporality and the role ascribed by these different disciplines to African pasts, presents, and futures. It is argued here that the post-war context, characterized, inter alia, by the creation of UNESCO, the birth of Présence Africaine and the prevalence of existentialism, bore witness to the development of new regimes of historicity and to the partial refutation of a progress-based modernity. This investigation is predicated on case studies from West and Central Africa (AOF, AEF and Belgian Congo) and, whilst adopting a postcolonial methodology, it explores African and French authors such as Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Placide Tempels. This study explores the intellectual legacy of the ‘long nineteenth century’ and the difficulty encountered by these authors to articulate their anti-colonial agenda away from the modern methodologies of the ‘colonial library’. By focussing on issues of intellectual alienation, this book also demonstrates that the post-WW2 period foreshadowed twenty-first century debates on extroversion, racial inequalities, the decolonization of history, and cultural (mis)appropriation.

Defining Beauty

Author : Ian Dennis Jenkins,Celeste Farge,Victoria Turner
Publisher : British museum Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : UCSD:31822041353939

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Greek sculpture is full of breathing vitality and yet, at the same time, it reaches beyond mere imitation of nature to give form to thought in works of timeless beauty. For over 2000 years the Greeks experimented with representing the human body in works that range from prehistoric abstract simplicity to the full-blown realism of the age of Alexander the Great. The ancient Greeks invented the modern idea of the human body in art as an object of sensory delight and as a bearer of meaning. Their vision has had a profound influence on the way the western world sees itself. Drawing on the British Museum's outstanding collection of Greek sculpture - including extraordinary pieces from the Parthenon and the celebrated representation of a discus thrower - and through a number of themed sections, this richly illustrated book explores the Greek portrayal of human character in sculpture, along with sexual and social identity. In athletics, the male body was displayed as if it was a living sculpture, and victors were commemorated by actual statues. In art, not only were mortal men and women represented in human form but also the gods and other beings of myth and the supernatural world. In a series of lively introductory chapters, written by a selection of academics, historians and artists, it is revealed how the Greeks themselves viewed the sculpture (which was vividly enhanced with colour), and how it was regarded and treated in later pagan antiquity. The revival of the Greek body in the modern era is also discussed, including the shock of the new effect of the arrival of the Parthenon sculptures in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Vernon Subutex 1

Author : Virginie Despentes
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719517

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"Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read. Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn't think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in interviews of habitually killing rapists . . . [It] has dupes and assholes and racists and the people they hate and a stunning diversity of internal monologues and trans true love. Like the last decade, it searches for a happy ending that isn’t merely personal and can’t find it . . . These novels with their depth and detail kick TV's sorry ass." —Nell Zink, Bustle, "The Best Books Of The 2010s" From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex—short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize. But who is Vernon Subutex? Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Before long, his savings are gone, and when the mysterious rock star who had been covering his rent suddenly drops dead of a drug overdose, Subutex finds himself launched on an epic saga of couch-surfing, boozing, and coke-snorting before finally winding up homeless. Just as he resigns himself to life as a panhandler, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook takes the internet by storm. The word is out: Subutex is lugging around a bunch of VHS tapes shot by that same dead rock musician—his last recordings on this earth. Soon a crowd of wild characters, from screen writers to social media groupies, from porn stars to failed musicians to random misfits, are hot on Vernon's trail . . . but Vernon is none the wiser.

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture

Author : Marion Demossier,David Lees,Aurélien Mondon,Nina Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317325895

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The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture by Marion Demossier,David Lees,Aurélien Mondon,Nina Parish Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture provides a detailed survey of the highly differentiated field of research on French politics, society and culture across the social sciences and humanities. The handbook includes contributions from the most eminent authors in their respective fields who bring their authority to bear on the task of outlining the current state-of-the art research in French Studies across disciplinary boundaries. As such, it represents an innovative as well as an authoritative survey of the field, representing an opportunity for a critical examination of the contrasts and the continuities in methodological and disciplinary orientations in a single volume. The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on French politics, society and culture.

French Studies in and for the 21st Century

Author : Philippe Lane,Michael Worton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781781386613

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French Studies in and for the 21st Century by Philippe Lane,Michael Worton Pdf

French Studies in and for the 21st Century draws together a range of key scholars to examine the current state of French Studies in the UK, taking account of the variety of factors which have made the discipline what it is. The book looks ahead to the place of French Studies in a world that is increasingly interdisciplinary, and where student demands, new technologies and transnational education are changing the ways in which we learn, teach, research and assess. Required reading for all UK French Studies scholars, the book will also be an essential text for the French Studies community worldwide as it grapples with current demands and plans for the future.

French Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Author : Anastasios Brenner,Jean Gayon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 140209390X

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French Studies in the Philosophy of Science by Anastasios Brenner,Jean Gayon Pdf

Having examined previous volumes of the Boston Studies series devoted to different countries, and having discussed the best way to present contemporary research in France, we have arrived at a careful selection of 15 participants, including the organizers. Our aim is to bring together philosophers and practicing scientist from the major institutions of the country, both universities and research centers. The areas of research represented here cover a wide spectrum of sciences, from mathematics and physics to the life sciences, as well as linguistics and economics. This selection is a showcase of French philosophy of science, illustrating the different methods employed: logico-linguistic analysis, rational reconstruction and historical inquiry. These participants have the ability to relate their research both to the French tradition and current discussions on the international scene. Also included is a substantial historical introduction, explaining the development of philosophy of science in France, the various schools of thought and methods as well as the major concepts and their significance.