Advanced search Subscribe to our newsletter and you'll continuously be informed about our new books, series and journals. You can customize this e-mail newsletter to your particular needs and interests. Newsletters include special discount codes. To subscribe or change existing preferences press the subscribe button	Series and Journals Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film. DAY, James (Ed.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2008, VIII, 177 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2462-5 € 37 / US$ 50 Series: French Literature Series 35 Stories of violence — such as the account in Genesis of Cain’s jealousy and murder of Abel — have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature — its appeal, forms, and consequences? Anchored by Alice Kaplan’s substantial contribution, the thirteen articles in this volume cover diverse epochs, lands, and motives. One scholar ponders whether accounts of Huguenot martyrdom in the sixteenth-century might suggest more pride than piety. Another assesses the real versus the true with respect to a rape scene in The Heptameron. Female violence in fairy tales by Madame d’Aulnoy points to gender politics and the fragility of female solidarity, while another article examines similar issues in the context of Ananda Devi’s works in present-day Mauritius. Other studies address the question of sadism in Flaubert, the unstable point of view of Emmanuel Carrère’s L’Adversaire, the ambivalence toward violence in Chamoiseau’s Texaco, the notions of “terror” and “tabula rasa” in the writings of Blanchot, the undoing of traditions of narrative continuity and authority in the 1998 film, À vendre, and consequences of the power differential in a repressive Haiti as depicted in the film Vers le Sud (2005). Paradoxes emerge in several studies of works where victims may become perpetrators, or vice versa. Contents Mathilde BERNARD: Justice des hommes, justice de Dieu, le retournement de la violence dans l’Histoire des martyrs de Jean Crespin et Simon Goulart Dora E. POLACHEK: Is It True or Is It Real? The Dilemma of Staging Rape in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron Marcy FARRELL: The Heroine’s Violent Compromise: Two Fairy Tales by Madame d’Aulnoy Florence PELLEGRINI: L’indisable et l’obscène: Flaubert, Sade et la loi. À propos de Bouvard et Pécuchet Esther N. MARION: The Narrator-Perpetrator and the Infectious Crime Scene: Emmanuel Carrère’s L’Adversaire Julia EFFERTZ: “Le prédateur, c’est moi” — l’écriture de la terre et la violence féminine dans l’œuvre d’Ananda Devi Véronique MAISIER: Texte et pré(-)textes dans Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau Milo SWEEDLER: Tabula Rasa: Blanchot and the Terror Alice KAPLAN: On Violent Judgment: Louis Guilloux’s Novel about Race, Justice, and the Segregated Army that Liberated France Thérèse DE RAEDT: Vers le Sud: de la violence, du pouvoir, du sexe et de l’argent Michèle CHOSSAT: À quoi rêvent les loups? De l’animal et de l’humain selon Khadra Mariah DEVEREUX HERBECK: Narrative Assault in Laetitia Masson’s À vendre Patrick L. DAY : Homeland Security: How the Community Protects the Individual from Violence in the Fiction and Films of Ousmane Sembène	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl