Reinventing France
Title | Reinventing France PDF eBook |
Author | S. Milner |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2003-11-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1403948186 |
Undermined from above by economic globalization and European integration, and from below by the rise of identity politics, the French state has attempted to redefine its relationship to its citizens. Reinventing France examines the ways in which state action has endeavoured to promote social integration in an increasingly fragmented nation and has challenged traditional concepts of an indivisible Republic and universal citizenship rights in order to achieve the core republican ideals of freedom, equality and solidarity.
Reinventing French Aid
Title | Reinventing French Aid PDF eBook |
Author | Laure Humbert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108831354 |
An original insight into how occupation officials and relief workers controlled and cared for Displaced Persons in the French zone.
Reinventing the Republic
Title | Reinventing the Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Raissiguier |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804757615 |
This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration.
Reinventing Babel in Medieval French
Title | Reinventing Babel in Medieval French PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Campbell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2023-09-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192699695 |
How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability, while never inscribing full equivalence. More recently, untranslatability has been foregrounded in projects at the intersections between translation studies and other disciplines, notably philosophy and comparative literature. The critical turn to untranslatability re-emphasizes the importance of translation's negotiation with foreignness or difference and prompts further reflection on how that might be understood historically, philosophically, and ethically. If translation never replicates a source exactly, what does it mean to communicate some elements and not others? What or who determines what is translatable, or what can or cannot be recontextualized? What linguistic, political, cultural, or historical factors condition such determinations? Central to these questions is the way translation negotiates with, and inscribes asymmetries among, languages and cultures, operations that are inevitably ethical and political as well as linguistic. This book explores how approaching questions of translatability and untranslatability through premodern texts and languages can inform broader interdisciplinary conversations about translation as a concept and a practice. Working with case studies drawn from the francophone cultures of Flanders, England, and northern France, it explores how medieval texts challenge modern definitions of language, text, and translation and, in so doing, how such texts can open sites of variance and non-identity within what later became the hegemonic global languages we know today.
Reinventing France
Title | Reinventing France PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Milner |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781403902153 |
Threatened from above by economic globalization and European integration, and from below by the rise of identity politics, the French state has attempted to redefine its relationship to its citizens. Reinventing France examines the ways in which state action has endeavored to promote social integration in an increasingly fragmented nation and has challenged traditional concepts of an indivisible Republic and universal citizenship rights in order to achieve the core republican ideals of freedom, equality and solidarity.
Reinventing French Aid
Title | Reinventing French Aid PDF eBook |
Author | Laure Humbert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108924573 |
Laure Humbert explores how humanitarian aid in occupied Germany was influenced by French politics of national recovery and Cold War rivalries. She examines the everyday encounters between French officials, members of new international organizations, relief workers, defeated Germans and Displaced Persons, who remained in the territory of the French zone prior to their repatriation or emigration. By rendering relief workers and Displaced Persons visible, she sheds lights on their role in shaping relief practices and addresses the neglected issue of the gendering of rehabilitation. In doing so, Humbert highlights different cultures of rehabilitation, in part rooted in pre-war ideas about 'overcoming' poverty and war-induced injuries and, crucially, she unearths the active and bottom-up nature of the restoration of France's prestige. Not only were relief workers concerned about the image of France circulating in DP camps, but they also drew DP artists into the orbit of French cultural diplomacy in Germany.
The Reinvention of Obscenity
Title | The Reinvention of Obscenity PDF eBook |
Author | Joan DeJean |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002-06-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226141404 |
The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing and the first modern censorial machinery came into being at the very moment that obscenity was being reinvented—that is, transformed from a minor literary phenomenon into a threat to society. DeJean's principal case in this study is the career of Moliére, who cannily exploited the new link between indecency and female genitalia to found his career as a print author; the enormous scandal which followed his play L'école des femmes made him the first modern writer to have his sex life dissected in the press. Keenly alert to parallels with the currency of obscenity in contemporary America, The Reinvention of Obscenity will concern not only scholars of French history, but anyone interested in the intertwined histories of sex, publishing, and censorship.