122 research outputs found
Ămergence dâune littĂ©rature maghrĂ©bine dâexpression française : La gĂ©nĂ©ration de 1954
Ămergence dâune littĂ©rature maghrĂ©bine dâexpression française : La gĂ©nĂ©ration de 1954
The Fecundity of Exile
Translated with author's permission by Scott Davidson from the French original, âFĂ©cunditĂ©s de lâexilâ in Histoires de lecture (Lire en FĂȘte, 2003).
Passport for a Hoped Immortality
Acceptance speech delivered to the Bernheim Foundation of French Judaism on May 16, 2011. Translated with the author's permission by Scott Davidson
Letter to Néméla
A letter about Memmi's philosophy of life. Translated with the author's permission by Scott Davidso
FĂ©conditĂ©s de lâexil
Cet essai a paru pour la premiĂšre fois dans Histoires de lecture (Lire en FĂȘte, 2003) et parait ici avec la permission de lâauteur
Lettre à Néméla
Une lettre à Néméla
Passeport Pour Une Immortalité Espérée
Allocution prononcée à la remise du prix Bernheim, à la Fondation du judaïsme français, le 16 mai 2011
Becoming-Bertha: virtual difference and repetition in postcolonial 'writing back', a Deleuzian reading of Jean Rhysâs Wide Sargasso Sea
Critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea have seized upon Rhysâs novel as an exemplary model of writing back. Looking beyond the actual repetitions which recall BrontĂ«âs text, I explore Rhysâs novel as an expression of virtual difference and becomings that exemplify Deleuzeâs three syntheses of time. Elaborating the processes of becoming that Deleuzeâs third synthesis depicts, Antoinetteâs fate emerges not as a violence against an original identity. Rather, what the reader witnesses is a series of becomings or masks, some of which are validated, some of which are not, and it is in the rejection of certain masks, forcing Antoinette to become-Bertha, that the greatest violence lies
Transformative sensemaking: Development in Whose Image? Keyan Tomaselli and the semiotics of visual representation
The defining and distinguishing feature of homo sapiens is its ability to make sense of the world, i.e. to use its intellect to understand and change both itself and the world of which it is an integral part. It is against this backdrop that this essay reviews Tomaselli's 1996 text, Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation/ by summarizing his key perspectives, clarifying his major operational concepts and citing particular portions from his work in support of specific perspectives on sense-making. Subsequently, this essay employs his techniques of sense-making to interrogate the notion of "development". This exercise examines and confirms two interrelated hypotheses: first, a semiotic analysis of the privileged notion of "development" demonstrates its metaphysical/ ideological, and thus limiting, nature especially vis-a-vis the marginalized, excluded, and the collective other, the so-called Developing Countries. Second, the interrogative nature of semiotics allows for an alternative reading and application of human potential or skills in the quest of a more humane social and global order, highlighting thereby the transformative implications of a reflexive epistemology.Web of Scienc
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