[ecrea] CFP Authoritarian discourse(s) and resistance in the twentieth century

> Call for papers: Issue number 6
> of online pee-reviewed journal Textes et Contextes (Centre Interlangues,
> University of Burgundy, Dijon, France)*
>
> http://revuesshs.u-bourgogne.fr/textes&contextes/
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> Authoritarian discourse(s) and resistance in the twentieth
> century
>
> Issue number 6 of Textes et contextes (edited by EA 4182, Centre
> Interlangues, University of Burgundy) intends to reflect on the types of
> discourse produced or imposed by totalitarian and, more generally,
> authoritarian regimes or by a dominant central power over its colonies,
> its regions or its periphery. The issue will concentrate on the twentieth
> century without any geographical limitation. Discourse is considered as a
> political tool in the service of power. Aspects which can be studied are
> its use and its rhetoric as well as phenomena of propaganda linked to
> official discourse, of manipulation, of censorship, of self-censorship,
> etc.
>
> It can be suggested that authoritarian regimes also generate forms of
> resistance, simultaneously with, and as a consequence of, authoritarian
> discourse. Studies about the link between oppression and resistance in
> Germany, Italy and France have shown that ?oppressive or occupation
> regimes in Europe during the Second World War and their opponents belong
> to the same world? because they are born from the same culture, the same
> state structures, the same social world and the same geostrategic world
> (F. Marcot et D Musiedlak, /Les résistances miroirs des régimes
> d?oppression/, Musée de la Résistance et de la déportation de Franche
> Comté, Université de Franche Comté, Paris X Nanterre, Presses
> Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2006). Papers dealing with the spaces of
> freedom offered by the forms of resistance born in authoritarian
> contexts, with their dynamics, with the modalities through which they
> escape authority/authoritarianism (exile, creation, subversive forms of
> language, affirmation of individual or regional history to counter
> official history...) will be welcome.
>
> Part of the volume will be devoted to the forms taken by propaganda
> and/or resistance in artistic creation (literature, painting, cinema...).
> Aspects which could be examined in this perspective include the notion of
> democracy (or its absence) within artistic forms, the relationships built
> up between the author (authority?) and the reader/spectator/viewer, the
> forms of persuasion used by artists and the reader/spectator/viewer?s
> margin of freedom (of resistance?). In the particular instance of the
> novel, the works in which Nelly Wolf examines the relationships between
> literature and politics (/Le roman de la démocratie/, 2003) could provide
> useful tools for analysis. Wolf, considering that there exists an analogy
> between the novel and the principles on which modern democracy is based,
> coined phrases like ?the contractual novel? or ?the novel as democracy?;
> such notions could offer fruitful ground for study.
>
> Following such analyses, papers could examine either how art produced in
> democratic contexts can become a form of authoritarian discourse or,
> conversely, how art born in authoritarian contexts and constrained by
> censorship manages to create internal democracy and therefore a form of
> resistance.
>
> Paper proposals (a one-page abstract with a maximum of five
> bibliographical references) must be sent before November 10, 2010 at the
> following address:
>
> (revuetil /at/ u-bourgogne.fr)
>
> Only previously unpublished papers will be considered for
> publication.
>
> Accepted languages: German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish,
> and Russian.
>
> Notice of acceptance: November 20, 2010
> Reception of final articles: February 15, 2011
> Results of the double-blind review process: May 15, 2011
> Reception of revised articles: July 1st , 2011
>
> Publication of the issue: November 2011.
>
> Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee
> publication. Final acceptance for publication will depend on a
> double-blind peer-review process.
>
> For all further information please contact
>
> Melanie.Joseph-Vilain@u-bourgogne.
> fr

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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