LINGUIST List 21.2517
Mon Jun 07 2010
Calls: Discourse Analysis/ Textes et Contextes (Jrnl)
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1. Laurent
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Textes et Contextes
Message 1: Textes et Contextes
Date: 07-Jun-2010
From: Laurent Gautier <laurent.gautieru-bourgogne.fr>
Subject: Textes et Contextes
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Full Title: Textes et Contextes
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2010
Issue number 6 of online journal Textes et Contextes(Centre Interlangues, University of Burgundy)
Authoritarian discourse(s) and resistance in the twentieth century
Issue number 6 of Textes et contextes (edited by EA 4182, CentreInterlangues, University of Burgundy) intends to reflect on the types ofdiscourse produced or imposed by totalitarian and, more generally,authoritarian regimes or by a dominant central power over its colonies, itsregions or its periphery. The issue will concentrate on the twentiethcentury without any geographical limitation. Discourse is considered as apolitical tool in the service of power. Aspects which can be studied areits use and its rhetoric as well as phenomena of propaganda linked toofficial discourse, of manipulation, of censorship, of self-censorship, etc.It can be suggested that authoritarian regimes also generate forms ofresistance, simultaneously with, and as a consequence of, authoritariandiscourse. Studies about the link between oppression and resistance inGermany, Italy and France have shown that 'oppressive or occupationregimes in Europe during the Second World War and their opponents belong tothe same world' because they are born from the same culture, the samestate structures, the same social world and the same geostrategic world .Papers dealing with the spaces of freedom offered by the forms ofresistance born in authoritarian contexts, with their dynamics, with themodalities through which they escape authority/authoritarianism (exile,creation, subversive forms of language, affirmation of individual orregional history to counter official history...) will be welcome.Part of the volume will be devoted to the forms taken by propaganda and/orresistance in artistic creation (literature, painting, cinema...). Aspectswhich could be examined in this perspective include the notion of democracy(or its absence) within artistic forms, the relationships built up betweenthe author (authority?) and the reader/spectator/viewer, the forms ofpersuasion used by artists and the reader/spectator/viewer's margin offreedom (of resistance?). In the particular instance of the novel, theworks in which Nelly Wolf examines the relationships between literature andpolitics (Le roman de la démocratie, 2003) could provide useful tools foranalysis. Wolf, considering that there exists an analogy between the noveland the principles on which modern democracy is based, coined phrases like'the contractual novel' or 'the novel as democracy'; such notions couldoffer fruitful ground for study.
Following such analyses, papers could examine either how art produced indemocratic contexts can become a form of authoritarian discourse or,conversely, how art born in authoritarian contexts and constrained bycensorship manages to create internal democracy and therefore a form ofresistance.
Paper proposals (a one-page abstract with a maximum of five bibliographicalreferences) must be sent before October 1st 2010 at the following address:
revuetilu-bourgogne.fr
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