Appel à contribution: Elsa Triolet

Please find below a link to a call for papers in view of a special publication of ERITA (ERITA stands for “Équipe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Triolet/Aragon” http://www.louisaragon-elsatriolet.org/).

The call, titled “Artiste, critique, écrivaine, journaliste, intellectuelle, activiste, traductrice, scénariste… Connaissez-vous Elsa Triolet ?”, is launched by Marianne Delranc-Gaudric and Geneviève Chovrelat-Péchoux.

Please note that you must submit a proposal in French to:

marianne.delranc.gaudric@wanadoo.fr, or genevieve.chovrelat@wanadoo.fr

The deadline to send your abstract is September 01, 2021.

http://www.louisaragon-elsatriolet.org/spip.php?article836

Call for papers : ‘Le masque et la plume’: speculative intertextualities in the works of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart, upstream and downstream
Editors : Kathleen Gyssels and Odile Hamot

The editorial team of RELIEF invites you to submit articles for a special issue on André and Simone Schwarz-Bart, which will appear in December 2021.

Borrowing our title from a famous broadcast series, directed by the literary critic Jérome Garcin who befriended the couple, this issue essentially aims to show various influences on André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. Intertextuality is to be understood here in its broadest sense: we mean to address a wide variety of sources that have left their traces in their novels. The issue will also tend to demonstrate how the Schwarz-Barts influenced later authors. We also accept articles dealing with associative writing and the combined relationship in their co-signed works of fiction, and the question of gender as well as the “anticipation novel” in nexus. Finally, the reception of their posthumous work could be discussed both intra and extra muros, as well as the place of the authors in French-Caribbean theories.

All in all the articles will shed light on how André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. in their un/published manuscripts, masked sources from a wide variety of cultural horizons and literary or artistic traditions (comprising traces of both Jewish and non-Jewish schools of thought). The issue will also demonstrate their imprints on contemporary and new writings of the (French) Caribbean and the Guianas.  

This issue of RELIEF will contain scientific articles in French or English, which take into account one or more of the above-mentioned perspectives. Articles that take a transnational or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

Deadline for proposals: May 1st, 2021. Authors of accepted proposals will need to submit the full article (5000-8000 words) before September 1, 2021. Please send a proposal of approximately 300 words, along with a short biography, to revuerelief@gmail.com.

Appel à contributions: :  « Le masque et la plume » : Intertextualités spéculatives dans les œuvres d’André et de Simone Schwarz-Bart, en amont et en aval

L’équipe de rédaction de RELIEF vous invite à proposer des articles pour un dossier thématique rédigé par Kathleen Gyssels et Odile Hamot, qui paraîtra en décembre 2021.

Le numéro sera essentiellement consacré aux intertextualités spéculatives (ou diffuses), tant en amont qu’en aval, qui nourrissent et prolongent l’œuvre d'André et Simone Schwarz-Bart : il s’agira donc non seulement de démontrer les influences variées des auteurs/romans/poèmes sur les romans d’André et de Simone Schwarz-Bart mais également de mettre en lumière l'influence schwarz-bartienne sur les écrits d’auteurs ayant publié après eux. Le numéro, pluri­théma­tique, accueillera également des réflexions consacrées à l'écriture associative et à la relation conjuguée dans l'œuvre co/signée ; des articles répondant aux questions du gender (de quel(s) sexe(s) sont les écrivains schwarz-bartiens, l’identité genrée) ; mais encore des études portant sur les romans d’anticipation (in nexus) et sur l’œuvre posthume : défis et réception intra et extra muros et présence des auteurs dans les théories antillaises.

Au total, le numéro voudra ainsi  illustrer non seulement la grande variété des horizons culturels et des traditions littéraires (juives et non juives) et artistiques (peintures, musiques) qui nourrissent l’œuvre, mais également la richesse des empreintes laissées par André et Simone Schwarz-Bart sur la littérature des Caraïbes (françaises) et des Guyanes.

Ce numéro de RELIEF acceptera des articles critiques en français ou en anglais dans une ou plusieurs des perspectives mentionnées. Les propositions fondées sur une approche trans­nationale ou comparatiste (y compris en dehors de la francophonie) seront particu­lièrement appréciées.

Date limite pour l’envoi des propositions : le 1^er mai 2021. Les auteurs des propositions retenues devront soumettre l’article complet (5000 à 8000 mots) avant le 1^er septembre  2021. Merci d’envoyer une proposition d’environ 300 mots, accompagnée d’une brève notice biographique, à revuerelief@gmail.com.

RELIEF est une revue internationale évaluée par les pairs qui s'adresse à des chercheurs ainsi qu’à d’autres lecteurs intéressés dans le domaine de la littérature et la culture françaises du moyen âge jusqu'à nos jours. Pour plus d’infos : www.revue-relief.org.

Please find attached (below) a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Nouvelles vues : revue sur les pratiques, les théories et l’histoire du cinéma au Québec, on the topic of Intercultural Encounters, prepared by Karine Bertrand (Queen's University) and Mercédès Baillargeon (University of Maryland). Please note that you may submit a proposal in either English of French, and that the deadline to submit an abstract is September 15, 2020. Please share widely!

Nouvelles Vue CFP Traduction anglais (1).pdf (En) / NV_appel_no_22_Rencontres intercuturelles_Baillargeon et Bertrand .pdf (Fr)

 

The goal of Impressions from Paris is to revisit the artistic, literary and journalistic contributions of French and expatriate women from different parts of the world, as they flocked to Paris during the interwar years (1925-1940). The overall principle lies in the inclusion of painters, visual artists, filmmakers and writers from diverse international and national backgrounds.

The volume will explore the possibilities presented in a modern literary and artistic history while building on previous scholarship. The idea for this project was inspired by two books and one documentary film: Shari Benstock Women of the Left Bank. Paris 1900-1940 (Texas University Press, 1986) and Andrea Weiss Paris was a woman. Portraits from the Left Bank (Harper SanFrancisco, 1995), which in turn produced an eponymous film (Greta Schiller/Andrea Weiss, 1996). These works highlight the community of women artists, editors and writers during the interwar years in Paris. There is scholarship in the area, although most of it is scattered in single monographs, crossing various genres, and various languages, from popular comic strips, to fiction, biographical studies, cultural histories as well as scholarly artistic and literary studies. The field is further invigorated by recent publications but not necessarily part of the focus such as Mary McAuliffe, Paris on the Brink. The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum and their friends (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018), and Michèle Fitoussi, Janet (JC Lattès, 2018).

The list of authors and artists that may be included but not limited to these are Doria Shafik, Françoise Gilot, Irène Nemirovski, and May Birkhead, Janet Flanner, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, Josephine Baker, Sonia Delaunay, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, Andrée Viollis and Gisèle Freund.

Contributors will be asked to contribute original essays of 6000 words each, with a bibliography and short bio. Please send a 600-word abstract and short bio to Dr. Sylvie Blum-Reid. University of Florida: sylblum@ufl.edu or seablum@gmail.com

Proposal for abstract by August 1st; and pending approval, final essay submissions by December 15, 2020.

Please find below the call for article proposals for the next issue of George Sand Studies: “Romans fantastiques, contes, légendes, fantaisies.” Please submit 500-word proposals to Isabelle Naginski (isabelle.naginski@tufts.edu) and Anne Marcoline (marcoline@uhcl.edu) by December 15, 2019.

Details here: Special Issue of George Sand Studies, vols. 39-40 (2020-2021).pdf

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

WIF Studies

Special Issue 2022

“Tu es drôle pour une fille”

Funny Women in French, from the Salon to Youtube 

For a special volume of Women in French Studies (2022), we seek contributions that investigate the humor of women of French expression since 1789.  We wish to explore the cultural archive for signs of women’s creative use of humor since the Revolution and the Napoleonic Code and track it through today’s digital age.  Against a tradition of reception that treats women as the unlaughing at which men laugh, this volume aims to demonstrate and reflect on the multiple humorous forms and practices of women of French expression and on their place in what Alain Vaillant calls “la civilisation du rire.”

It has been 20 years since Humoresques devoted a special issue to the question in Armées d'hmours : rires au féminin, where co-editor Judith Sandor Stora wrote that “l’étude de l’humour féminin en France commence à peine.”  In 2012, the Canadian journal Recherches féministes took up the mantle with its special issue “Les voies secretes de l’humour des femmes” but left the door open for a volume on the humor of women of French expression. 

The need for such a volume has become all the more compelling since the Humoresques volume. Along with novelists of all stripes, women are laughing: in the press and in cartoons, in street art, on the little and big screen, on the radio, and on the stage. Blanche Gardin won the Molière prize for humor in 2018. Franco-Ivoirien stand-up Shirley Souagnon travels to Reunion to conduct humor workshops.  The Internet explosion allows women unmediated access to a global public. Greater visibility and increased numbers, though, have not changed the fact that funny women still pose a problem. In 2014, French Youtuber and humorist Natoo (Nathalie Odzierjko) published a vlog called “Les femmes et l’humour” in response to a viewer’s back-handed compliment, “Tu es drôle pour une fille.” Natoo’s five-minute vlog deliciously skewers the perennial stereotypes about women and humor, calling to mind 19^th- century journalist Delphine Gay de Girardin’s witty nose-thumbing to would-be detractors in her weekly newspaper column from the July Monarchy. 

Submissions that explore any region of the French-speaking world and any creative practice using humor (taken in its largest sense to include the comic, the satiric, the ironic, etc.). within the historical parameters are welcome.  

Trans-national and historical perspectives most welcome.

Possible areas of inquiry: 

*literary humor

*performance (art, music, one woman shows, etc.)

*cartoons and comic strips, 

*radio

*television

*cinema

*digital cultures.  

Abstract of 250-300 words in English or in French requested by November 4, 2019. 

Please send proposals to Cheryl Morgan (cmorgan@hamilton.edu)

Notice of acceptance by December 15, 2019. 

Full manuscript due by June 10, 2020.

Manuscripts will go through blind peer review.