... and “the political,” by which we might understand something like the irreducible kinds of formations that a relation to historicity takes on in the space of literature; the elusive but insistent significance of its meditations on history’s deadlocks—on the negativity of “what exists”—as well as the slippery...

...Seth Kimmel Anthony J. Cascardi Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2012 . Pp. 351 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS apar ailleurs l'appui de ses raisonnements, fournissant au lecteur nombre...

... of princes, the régime de santé took a political turn, something that is also echoed in satirical literature. One clear example of the politics of the régime de santé is the banquet scene of L’Isle des hermaphrodites ( The Island of Hermaphrodites ), published in 1605 and circulated widely in Paris...

...Emmanuelle Saada; Madeleine Dobie Emmanuelle Saada and Madeleine Dobie INTRODUCTION: SPECIAL CLUSTER: THINKING THE POSTCOLONIAL IN FRENCH T his special issue of The Romanic Review collects some of the papers presented at "Thinking the Postcolonial in French: History, Politics, Literature...

... in local and international job markets. It is about time for French programs in American universities to question the impact of identity politics on the syllabi they offer. While French white male authors have created the majority of literature in French up until the nineteenth century, an evolution...

... in his essays and short stories. The well-planned journey Jullien takes her reader on begins by identifying Goethe’s notion of “morphology” as key to understanding Borges’s view on world literature. From there on, exploring the ramifications of renunciation between the political and the aesthetic...

... literature does not immediately strike one as a politically charged form of art. Duras neither argues for a shift of emphasis from literature to politics (from reading to action), nor pleads that literature has a duty to communicate a clear message in an unequivocal language. Instead, she asks literature...

...-called Maghreb. In addition, scholars of the Maghreb in other disciplines—namely, anthropology, Arab studies, linguistics, political science, and Middle East studies—have occupied this space and know how to include other languages and all cultural productions (oral tradition, popular culture, literature...

...Toby Wikström Larry F. Norman The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2011 . Pp. 296 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 588 BOOK REVIEWS Quijote intelligible as a reflection on political...

... and Breton's political thought, I would also propose here an additional reading focusing on how the myth functioned in terms of interwar literature. While ContreAttaque can be considered a political movement, a radical reaction to fascism's rise, it also remains inscribed in the history of the avant-garde...

... not to treat African politics and literature as a mere tributary of metropolitan history and thought. Taking Bachir's argument a step further, we might say that May 1968 in Paris was both connected to, and also not connected to, events unfolding in Africa and Indochina. The wars of decolonization in Vietnam...

... but also forgotten films, obscure film critiques, and aesthetic and political debates, all of which might seem to have very little to do with what is usually called "literature." Hence the first feature in the portrait of literary studies I am proposing under the inspiration of Phil Watts's example...

... completent l'ouvrage, qui constitue un nouvel outil tres bienvenu pour Ie progres des etudes theatrales en langue fran~aise. (MARIE-EMMANUELLE SIMON-WALCKENAER, Universite de Paris X) Anthony J. Cascardi. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012. Pp. 351...

...Patrick Dove Efraín Kristal . Invisible Work: Borges and Translation , Vanderbilt University Press : Nashville , 2002 . Pp. 213 . Sergio Waisman . Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery , Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series...

...J. Michael Dash Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 ]. Michael Dash VITAL SIGNS IN THE BODY POLITIC: EROTICISM AND EXILE IN MARYSE CONDE AND DANY LAFERRIERE II n'y a pas de paroles sur l'Amour par ici Notre pre-litterature est de cris, de haines, de revendications, de...

... testament in the articles by Maurice Samuels and Dorian Bell, which close this number. As Samuels writes: Scholars have spilled a great deal of ink over antisemitism, analyzing its causes and effects, its history and its politics. But very little attention has been paid to philosemitism-the defense...

...-political. My authors were Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, Breton, and Eluard. My only knowledge of francophone Caribbean literature consisted of a few commonplaces and catchphrases concerning Cesaire that I had been exposed to through the filters of Breton and Sartre. But the world-worlds-opened up...

... d'ongle incisif." That's the way it was in many quarters back in the 1950s-dehydrated, pale, dead from the waist down. Medieval literature was a separate country, and the passport for entering it was a certain kind of positivist philology whose aim often seemed to be nothing more than keeping others out...

... France, as well as to scholars interested in the complex intersections between literature, politics, and historiography in the early modern period. The surprising richness of the conspiracy plot invites us to rethink the connection between forbidden speech and artistic production during the Sun King's...

.... For Debarati Sanyal in The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form, irony is invoked "to recover the ideological valences of modernism's retreat into form, in the hopes of reenergizing literature's spirit of critique vis-a-vis historical violence" (4). Sanyal's Baudelaire is recast...