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Parcours identitaires
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ISBN: 2878540611 2878548752 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris : Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle,

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La quête identitaire passe le plus souvent par la confrontation à l'autre. Celle des groupes ethniques dans les Etats-Unis d'aujourd'hui est étudiée ici comme un déplacement à travers un espace, privé ou public, dont les limites, les frontières, les repères et les codes sont constamment redéfinis. Quelques parcours exemplaires et singuliers sont analysés dans ce recueil - à partir de textes et de documents précis - afin de mieux cerner le travail de la mémoire et de l'imaginaire (individuels et collectifs), les rites de passage, la construction de sens et l'élaboration symbolique. Chaque trajectoire est imprimée de mouvements ambigus, complexes et contradictoires. Il se dégage de ces exemples une problématique de l'exil, de la rupture et des échanges culturels qui remet parfois en question les modèles proposés ou prescrits par la société dominante.

Writing the nation: self and country in the post-colonial imagination
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ISBN: 9051839383 Year: 1996 Volume: 7 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi


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A gift of tongues : critical challenges in contemporary American poetry
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ISBN: 0820309532 Year: 1987 Publisher: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press,

Weasels and wisemen : ethics and ethnicity in the work of David Mamet
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ISBN: 0312160860 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York St. Martin's Press


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Roman contemporain et identité culturelle en Amérique du Nord
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ISBN: 2921053845 Year: 1998 Volume: 13 Publisher: Québec : Nota bene,


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Discours nationaliste et identité ethnique à travers le roman sénégalais
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ISBN: 2747552403 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,


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Artificial color : modern food and racial fictions
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ISBN: 9780197620182 0197620183 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press,

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In Artificial Color, Catherine Keyser examines the early twentieth century phenomenon, wherein US writers became fascinated with modern food-global geographies, nutritional theories, and technological innovations. African American literature of the 1920s and 1930s uses new food technologies as imaginative models for resisting and recasting oppressive racial categories. In his masterwork Cane (1923), Jean Toomer follows sugar from the boiling-pots of the South to the speakeasies of the North. Through effervescent and colorful soda, he rejects the binary of black and white in favor of a dream of artificial color and a new American race. In his serial science fiction, Black Empire (1938-39), George Schuyler associates hydroponics and raw foods with racial hybridity and utopian futures. The second half of the book focuses on white expatriate writers who experienced local food cultures as sensuous encounters with racial others. Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein associate regional European races with the ideal of terroir and aspire to transplantation through their own connoisseurship. In their novels set in the Mediterranean, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald both dramatize the white body's susceptibility to intoxicating and stimulating substances like wine and coffee. For Scott Fitzgerald, the climatological and culinary corruption of the South produces the tragic fall of white masculinity. For Zelda, by contrast, it exposes the destructiveness and fictitiousness of the white feminine purity ideal. During the Great Depression and the Second World War, African American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Dorothy West exposed the racism that shaped the global food industry and the precarity of black labor. Their engagement with food, however, insisted upon pleasure as well as vulnerability, the potential of sensuous flesh and racial affiliation.

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