... stressed before, we cannot simply add in token voices or authors to canonical lists as a retrofitted adjustment. If it is inadequate to palliate our “forgetfulness” about race and disability solely by expanding the canon, perhaps it is by cleaving more closely the “social conditions” and aesthetics...

...Madeleine Dobie French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race . Edited by Tyler Stovall and Georges Van Den Abbeele . Lexington Books , 2003 . Pp. 383 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS 477 French...

..., Spanish religious and secular bureaucrats-modernity's vanguard-fashioned institutions to rule over colonized peoples and over the subjects of a slowly emerging nation. "Race-thinking" was at the core of these imperial and national designs, and "the heretical," as it turns out, was intrinsic to race...

...," and the massive riots of October and November.1 With these events, the notion of the "postcolonial" became associated with a score of different debates over the forms of discrimination in French society, the profound but often silenced presence of race in the national narrative, the writing of French history...

... the origins of the character's hatred: "Ah Ie juif! il [Saccard] avait contre Ie juif l'antique rancune de race, qu'on trouve surtout 2. According to Parinet (256), Drumont's two-volume denunciation of the Jewish presence in French political and cultural life sold 65,000 copies in the first year and roughly...

... novel, seems to represent the very embodiment of racism. In her eyes the world is strictly divided along color lines, between a superior white race and an inferior black one. The child of an interracial marriage, Cajou inevitably turns this vision of the world upon herself, convinced she is doomed...

..., in the middle of a pandemic, it could make sense to read and teach Albert Camus’s novel The Plague . Or, in a summer marked by the new rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, it might be sensible to reflect on the enunciation of race in poetry in French. Yet even simple relations of that sort could deliver...

...). For an alternative reading of Claire's madness as a means of resistance against race, gender, and class oppression, see Lee-Keller. 202 DORIS L. GARRAWAY represents the most trenchant analysis to date of sadomasochism in the novel, significant questions remain as to the psychological and affective conditions...

... of the Middle Ages to articulate accounts of race, culture, and nation at a time of BOOK REVIEWS colonial expansion and of growing concern for what Michel Foucault terms "biopolitics." The flipside of this medical-medieval dialectic is the analysis of how medical constructions of medieval sexuality shaped...

.... Dans Ie sixieme et dernier numero de la Revue du Monde Nair (en 1931) Paulette Nardal donna un important article intitule « Eveil de la conscience de race». Elle analysait surtout la « nouvelle attitude» incarnee dans la poesie de McKay et Hughes, et la prise de conscience de leur negritude par les...

... from our culture" (89). Schleck appends a useful bibliography of recent criticism and anthologies treating race in early modern encounters. Barbara Sebek's entry on "Different Shakespeares" walks readers through weekly readings, challenges, student assignments, and responses from her master's level...

... inscribes class as well as gender hierarchies.1 Building on their work, I want to explore the ways in which this body becomes still more marked in certain narratives. How do the vexed categories of race and religion further Invitations to present early versions of this material at Dartmouth College...

... the categories of race and domesticity through the transracial and transnational figure of the Creole woman, a figure that shuttles between the spheres of domestic politics and colonial affairs, the private and public realms, and domestic and antislavery fiction. The term 'Creole,' etymologically, 'brought up...

... réduire la race juive à une bande de singes agités, Drumont entend encore démontrer, comme le suggère bien la référence à Offenbach, qu’elle « possède incontestablement un don particulier de saisir le côté grotesque de toute chose émouvante et belle » (XVI). Il n’est pas peu piquant de constater que ce...

... of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 deafness gender impairment medicine religion Deafness as well as other physical impairments in each historic time and space have distinctive implications in medicine, science, society, and religion, all of which intersect gender, race...

... du Mal , et que son hypocrisie était incapable de reconnaître dans l’autre – dans l’autre « race » – son semblable, préférant au contraire augmenter le fossé entre la race d’Abel et celle de Caïn 67 – entre celle de Japhet et de Cham. En osant descendre jusqu’au fond de sa propre lâcheté et de...

.... Domínguez emphasizes in the novel how juridical biologization proceeded in Nazi territories: the doctor, and not the traditional figures of the law, was bestowed with the authority for interpreting and sentencing infractions of the Nuremberg race laws through observational examination of the character...

... d'Arthur de Gobineau, lui-meme auteur de I'Essai sur l'inegalite des races humaines. Voila donc trois figures qui, en apparence, designent l'ethnologie comme l'ennemi de I'ecrivain noir revolutionnaire et I'une des cibles du combat anticolonial. Et c'est aujourd'hui un postulat implicite de nombreuses...

... trouver sa solution, Ie probleme est deplace de la ville a la campagne, de Paris au Berry, ou Marcelle va s'enquerir de l'etat tres degrade, de sa fortune et de celle de son tres jeune fils - Ie dernier de la race, affectivement adopte, deja, par Henri. C'est la qu'elle rencontre Ie meunier d'Angibault...

... Aragon's praise of the Nation in opposition to Maurras's appreciation of "race," or, for that matter, of the State, that seems to me to be a simplification in need of comment. True, Aragon writes: "aux mythes de la race, opposer les images de la Nation " 5 But then again one merely has to read Maurras's...