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Quelques repères historiques et sociolinguistiques sur l’implantation du français à Conakry
Get PDFL’objectif de cette contribution est de fournir une description et une analyse de la situation du français dans un cadre urbain et multilingue de la ville de Conakry, doublement soumise au phénomène migratoire: une migration intérieure convergente vers la capitale, couramment appelée exode rural, et une migration vers l’extérieur, en direction de ou en passant par des pays majoritairement francophones
Ah, our village was beautiful ... Towards a critical social linguistics in times of migration and war
Get PDFIt is extensively documented that Central European education systems are rather ill-equipped when it comes to coping with their students’ social and linguistic diversity. In consequence, students with home languages other than the school language face particular obstacles in the education system. In Germany and Austria, for example, one of the most serious obstacles they are confronted with is the early segregation of students into a ‘stronger’ and a ‘weaker’ group. Particularly for ‘immigrant’ students with home languages other than German, this segregation is known to account for massive disadvantages, as more than four years and/or specific support would be needed to acquire German on the required level. Their manifold language competencies, amongst others, remain largely unrecognized. Poor school success, in turn, also accounts for negative consequences when they get older and enter the labor market. This entails serious disadvantages for general participation in society – in other words: for ‘raising one’s voice’ and ‘being heard’ in key economic, social and political discourses and decision-making processes of society. In our contribution3 we will follow up on this matter. The aim is to empirically investigate two questions: first, how are educational disadvantages – i.e., unequal opportunities – constructed and put into action in the particular case of highly multilingual students? And second, can our insights contribute to breaking the vicious circle
Frontmatter and Editorial
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Examining the interrelations of women and war in a global context Gender Debat|tl|ed, the fifth issue of gender forum, looks at various aspects of representations and non-representations (cf. Walter Hölbling\u27s essay) of women during wars and examines respective issues of nationalism, identity politics and gender construction as reflected in the literatures of Anglophone (USA, England, and Commonwealth) and Francophone cultures
Review: Carlson, Cindy L., Mazzola, Robert L. and Susan M. Bernardo (eds). Gender Reconstructions - Pornography and Perversion in Literature and Culture.
No full text"There are no dirty words. Ever!" Leonard Cohen stated when, before a recording of a reading of his poems in 1965, a sound engineer told him that "dirty words" would be deleted from the tape. The volume Gender Reconstructions - Pornography and Perversion in Literature and Culture [edited by Cindy L. Carlson, Robert L. Mazzola and Susan M. Bernardo] suggests that Cohen\u27s statement is not just the incensed exclamation of an artist faced with the mutilation of his work but also holds true generally for art that represents the pornographic and|or the perverse. The eleven essays published in this volume offer a wide range of voices expressing ideas and perspectives on the current debate on pornography and its relation to power structures and questions of identity. As the title suggests, pornography and perversion are discussed especially with an emphasis on the ability to challenge and break up phallogocentric structures and discourses to re|construct (concepts of) gender. The authors do not only discuss the aesthetics of perversion and pornography in various types of media (such as texts, paintings and installations) but also how, on different levels, a work of art can be connected to these aesthetics: from the content level on the one hand (essays dealing with explicitly "perverse" and "pornographic" art) to a structural level on the other (essays applying a theory of "perversion" to art that isn\u27t necessarily "pornographic" in itself)
"Know that I do not suffer, unlike you..." - Visual and Verbal Codings of Pain in Body and Performance Art
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The flagellation and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the Mater dolorosa, tortured martyrs such as Saint Sebastian - Western art history abounds in painted and sculpted displays of pain and suffering. By illustrating the necessity of painful submission to the symbolic order, these images have always served as reminders of Christian duty and morality: "Literally crucified, Christ gives figural expression to the way all human subjects must subject themselves to the law of the father and the reality principle he stands in for" (Bronfen 109). Christian iconography usually foregrounds the cruelty of the pain sustained and its ideals of passive endurance and unconditional confidence in God by the typical, visibly restrained motility of the figures involved. Christian images of suffering thus privilege a specific form of pain-processing and rely on the spectatorial gaze, which is why they are intimately linked with gender issues, as Kaja Silverman contends: "Christian masochism has radically emasculating implications, and is in its purest forms intrinsically incompatible with the pretensions of masculinity" (198)
Review: David M. Halperin: How to Do the History of Homosexuality.
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Halperin diagnoses a peculiar kind of academic "amnesia" (2) when it comes to the history of (homo)sexuality, both in regard to the familiarization of the historical alterity of its object (the sexuality of ancient Greece, for example) and in regard to its methodology (the ways in which we historicize sexuality). He claims that the categories and terminology of our own contemporary discourses on sexuality render the specific alterity of other historical cultures\u27 organizations of sex and gender opaque: "All our research into otherness, into cultural alterity, presents to us an endlessly perplexing spectacle of the exotic, which merely reinforces our attachment to our own categories of thought and experience" (3). Moreover, the constructivist approaches developed out of a need to redress these shortcomings have come to obstruct our vision in their turn. The broad reception of critics such as Michel Foucault, Halperin argues, has led to a conventionalization of his highly original writings to such a degree that they are reduced to a set of almost clichéd concepts. The fault obviously does not lie with Foucault - indeed, Halperin\u27s essays are based on very careful (re)readings of his texts - but rather with the academic commodification of his ideas: The "almost ritualistic invocation of [Foucault\u27s] name" has reduced "the operative range of his thought to a small set of received ideas, slogans, and bits of jargon that have now become so commonplace and so familiar as to make more direct engagement with Foucault\u27s texts entirely indispensable" (25). As a result, Halperin claims, we are nearer to "Forgetting Foucault" (the title of ch. 1) than we might think. This paradox of forgetting the all-too-familiar, and of familiarizing otherness to the point of erasing its specific alterity, constitutes the double focal point of the essays collected in this volume, a paradox which significantly informs the practices and politics of writing the history of (homo)sexuality
Review: Coming off Rage? Angry Young Women at the Royal Court in Lucy Prebble\u27s The Sugar Syndrome, Gary Mitchell\u27s Loyal Women, and Stella Feehily\u27s Duck
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After a number of plays focusing on issues of race, questions of gender are back on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre, where three new productions of the autumn/winter season feature angry female protagonists. While the debut plays by Lucy Prebble and Stella Feehily explore the (suppressed) rage of "ladettes" (thus offering a female alternative to the lads so popular in the dramatic New Writing of the 1990s), the established Irish dramatist Gary Mitchell tackles the female share of violence in the Northern Ireland conflict
