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Lancaster, Rosemary. Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970.
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Par-delà l’exil : La grand-parentalité comme clé de la construction identitaire dans L’exil selon Julia
No full textAlthough terms such as “in-between”, “non-place” and “displacement” are commonly associated with the reality of migrants, they can also be applied to the condition of the elderly. In L’exil selon Julia by Gisèle Pineau, the journey of the eponymous character, an elderly migrant of Caribbean origin, demonstrates how this triple identity can generate and exacerbate a sense of otherness. This article not only highlights the work of nostalgia and melancholy in a new environment, but it also analyzes Julia’s creativity and resilience in creating her own Guadeloupe in France.Bien que les termes tels « entre-deux », « non-lieu » et « déplacement » soient couramment associés à la réalité des migrants, ils peuvent également s’appliquer à la condition des personnes âgées. Dans L’exil selon Julia de Gisèle Pineau, le parcours du personnage éponyme, une vieille migrante d’origine antillaise, démontre comment cette triple identité peut générer et exacerber un sentiment d’altérité. Cet article souligne non seulement le travail de la nostalgie et de la mélancolie dans un nouveau milieu, mais il analyse également la créativité et la résilience dont fait preuve Julia pour créer sa propre Guadeloupe en France
Marie Stuart, œuvres littéraires. L’écriture française d’un destin. Édition critique par Sylvène Édouard, Irène Fasel et François Rigolot.
No full textRomanticizing the Confederacy: Modern Vampire Media as a Conduit for Misinformation
No full textVampires in television and film provide audiences with a unique link between past and present through their immortality. This becomes problematic when three popular vampire franchises – True Blood, Twilight, and The Vampire Diaries – all showcase important characters who were Confederate soldiers in their human lives. In a modern America that still sees the Confederate flag used as a popular symbol of racism, this misleading portrayal of the American Civil War allows people to form a connection to the average Confederate soldier through their favourite vampire. This paper argues that writing sympathetic fictional characters into historical events misrepresents those events and is a form of misinformation for individuals who lack the information literacy skills to separate the truth from fiction.
Data and its Misuse: The Efficacy of Objectivity
No full textMark Twain, the renowned American writer and humourist, is often quoted to have said “facts are stubborn things but statistics are pliable” (Kihuro, 2014). Although anecdotal, the point Mr. Twain makes resonates true in our modern information age society. The use of descriptive statistics is widespread in sports, humanities, academia, and probably of most consequence, news and media outlets. The mathematical properties of statistical analysis are inherently objective, however, its use (or misuse) can be hijacked by bad actors to compliment and give pseudo-rationality to propaganda and tailored societal messages. This misuse may not be deliberate, but to the layman, the message is what is perceived not the mechanism of how it has been portrayed. Data and information in this so-called information age is often branded with terminology that implies objectivity, though, can anything be objective when subject to human interpretation? The purpose of this paper is to question the inherent branding of objectivity in available data and information sources by evaluating mechanisms of representation
