Comment écrire et dire l’Afrique au XXIe siècle, à une époque dite de « la littérature-monde » ? Cette interrogation renvoie à l’attention critique dont font l’objet les écrivains africains de la diaspora, notamment ceux de la période de la postindépendance, lesquels appartiennent à deux tendances opposées, à savoir pour les uns aux « enfants de la...
Dès le titre de sa réinterprétation théâtrale de Gn. XXII, Abraham sacrifiant (1550), le réformé Théodore de Bèze désigne l’acteur principal de son récit et du geste commandé par Dieu : la persona tragique d’Abraham. Cependant, une fois venue la scène du sacrifice proprement dite, les rôles sacrificiels se brouillent : qui est sacrifié, qui sacrifi...
Published in The Journal of medical humanities
Tragedy is a founding theme in disability studies. Critical disability studies have, since their inception, argued that understandings of disability as tragedy obscure the political dimensions of disability and are a barrier facing disabled persons in society. In this paper, we propose an affirmative understanding of tragedy, employing the philosop...
This article analyzes the play O Santo e a Porca, by Ariano Suassuna, particularly giving importance to its protagonist, Euricão. We have in such a character the comic representation of the miser, the one who sacrificed all material luxuries in the name of this disordered love for a sow full of money. The play typically proceeds like a comedy of er...
Elites of the Hunnish states, including Tokharistan (ancient Bactria) and Northwest India from the 4th century, not only appreciated Greco-Roman art, inherited or imported, but also had a good knowledge of the Hellenic mythological cycles. Among the small silver bowls called “Bactrian”, attributed by Boris Marshak to the period after the Sasanian w...
Don Winslow's cartel series is considered a masterpiece of narco literature. In this paper, we address the necessary extension of the commonly accepted trilogy to a tetralogy with the inclusion of Police Corruption as part of the series thanks to the analogical relations that this work shows with the rest. To this end, we will analyse the textual a...
Cet article interroge les enjeux politiques de trois tragédies de Tristan L'Hermite (La Mariane, La Mort de Sénèque et Osman) à partir d'une lecture des dédicaces. Il s'agit de saisir en quoi l'esthétique de la noirceur proposée par Tristan constitue une prise de position dans le processus polémique et politique d'institution du théâtre.
This study consists of a conceptual investigation that aims to reflect on the tragic dimension of the style as a shaping power of expression resulting from intersubjective tensions. The analysis is centered on the comprehension established over the movement that permeates the attempt of unity and success that the formative capacity evokes as a tran...
Companies involved in socio-environmental tragedies have increasingly aroused the interest of society and regulatory bodies. In this sense, the cases of the companies Samarco S.A. and Vale S.A. stand out in the Brazilian context due to the socio-environmental impacts they caused in the regions where they operate. Thus, this research aimed to analyz...
