... Lambert queer futurity queer temporality figure of the child child murder The achevé d’imprimer , or colophon, that comes at the end of any French published work literally has the last word, and it’s one that we usually don’t bother to look at. What interest is there, after all, in learning who...

... such as a child-murder (in Celanire cou-coupe). 5. See Regis Antoine's remarks on Conde's work in Rayonnants ecrivains de la Caraibe. (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999). LA BELLE CREOLE AND THE GLOBAL SUBJECT 293 asupplee suffisamment cette absence pour que, dans les textes lit- teraires, les chiens soient une...

... To return to the Terre de Feu reference in La Vie mode d'emploi, it is significant that Anne Breidel is an orphan and has in a sense been abandoned by her mother; for Elizabeth Breidel (herself neglected by her own mother, then guilty of allowing a child to drown ) virtually gives herself up to her murderer...

... fantasies are symptomatic of a more political need for resistance. This is especially apparent when Claire plots the murder of her sister Felicia. Confronted by mounting state terror and outraged by Caledu's seizure and presumed torture of Jane Baviere and her child, with whom she has finally renewed ties...

..., politicized sentimentalist tropes, as indeed to Zola's novel, is the figure of the child, for it is this figure-as at once the unfortunate victim of the novel's gruesome crime narrative, the potential beneficiary of educational reform, and, of course, the prized end result of heterosexual sexual relations-who...

... the child in the play said, 'the souls of our martyrs,' yes, of course, but above all I'm thinking of our real casualties of war, those who stayed upright and who, in the aftermath of peace, continued to wander, their souls in ruins, the deadest of the dead" (449). Translator's note: All English...

..., the Fille's most important act in the first half of the work6 is to attempt to murder Tiebaus after they are attacked in the woods. This is one 5. Kinoshita relates the Fille's decision to leave Aumarie and return to France to the Islamic perception of Frankish intransigence (190-91). 6. The structure...

... of a Southern gentleman who returned home one evening, disconcerted and hurt, after having been invited to the wedding of a patient's child. A woman whose dozen children he had brought into the world had refused his hand extended in congratulations, saying shyly, "I'm sorry, Doctor, but I don't shake hands...

... Tituba meet a very pregnant Hester Prynne in jail and to suggest passionate feelings between them, to show Tituba in the sunset telling a tale to Hester's unborn child, then to "suicide" this feminist Hester by hanging, in order to protect her child from a sexist puritanical world-thus crediting Hester...

.... The most moving shot in this footage is the black Venus, reminding us of the Venus of Milo with her arm gone, who is also a black Madonna, suckling a child with bare breasts. This icon must remind us all that the endorsement of rape continues not only in war but also, irrespective of whether a nation...

... normally be seen as a murderer, thereby questioning the power of the ritual to transform brutal murder into legitimate execution. By undermining the ritual of trial in these ways, Hugo also undermines the claim implicit in the legal code (and supported by the society that produced such a code...

..., and the other his rival's child whose death he has ordered. He does not know, however, which is which. This dilemma produces the sudden and unforeseeable reversal of fortune that gives rise to thaumast6n and a search for knowledge. Spurred on by his fear of murdering his own son, Focas finds himself...

... or clinical psychologist; the woman; the child prodigy. Each zone represents a stage in the French cultural history of the term, but the resonances activated in each zone do not die out entirely, instead remaining available for unpredictable reuse and repurposing decades, even centuries, later. And each site...

... shepherdess (15-18). Later in the narrative Perrault individualised Griselidis in telling detail: not wishing to be but half a mother, not wishing to be exempt from the service that her baby's cries demanded, she wanted to nurse the child in whom she reposed all her tenderness (33, 38). Christianity...

... sometimes cared for me as a child (a ­woman named Sheshy). I d never seen a reader s report like this, nor have I seen one since ­I mean a report that starts off in so personal a vein, personal having nothing to do with self-i­mportance and everyt­ hing to do with the importance of understanding oneself...

... biggest moment of "information," if you like. It is also a moment in which, to put this as quietly as possible, emotion has to be managed. The shooting of the unarmed crowd has begun, and the Buendia of the next generation who is to be its sole adult survivor picks up a child: "Many years later that child...

... instants, that instant which flies into bits under its own blow, which has neither length, nor duration, only its own shattering brilliance, the shock of the passage from night to light" (Stigmata 29). The instant between main plot points, just before the confession or just after the murder...

... acknowledgment of marital rape in a film of this period. Quite understandably, Cristina and Nicole conspire to kill Michel. They sedate him, drown him in a bathtub, and then dump his body in the school's murky swimming pool to make the murder look like an accident or suicide. For most of the film, we watch...

... of Marcher’s fate is a figurative beast; Marcher’s search for his past is a figurative search: “The lost stuff of his consciousness became thus for him as a strayed or stolen child to an unappeasable father; he hunted it up and down very much as if he were knocking at doors or enquiring of the police.” Among...

... Marthe has taken refuge with her newborn child. Thus are unexpectedly reunited in this scene two of the novel's main characters. There are several ways to understand this passage. The abundance of historically accurate and realistic elements emphasizes that Sand is dealing with a real-life event situated...