Martine Antle
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Contemporary French and Francophone Studies | 2015
Martine Antle; Roger Célestin; Eliane DalMolin
J.M.G. Le Cl ezio’s body of work offers us a glimpse of a world animated by multiple cultures, inhabited by nomads, and frequently permeated by spiritual and mystical dimensions such as Buddhism, Sufism, or Native American Shamanism. This rich work—whose secret cartography must be invented and can only be glimpsed through the potentiality of its landscapes, wandering, cultural otherness, and the questioning of founding myths—is puzzling and resists interpretation. While the Caribbean and the Mediterranean offer Glissant the most eloquent examples of The Relation, J.M.G. Le Cl ezio’s Relation is woven together from a borderless, transnational universe that reflects another place, with its own possibilities. This conception of the world and its multiple cultures in movement gives rise to a previously unseen esthetic of crossing, displacement, and the migration of identity, drawing as much on the notion of the intercultural as on that of the transcultural. For J.M.G. Le Cl ezio, narrative spaces, and the successive crossings of cultural particularities they create, deliberately overturn notions of space, territory, and territorial belonging. A true spider’s web, this universe extends its “tenuous, nearly invisible threads.” Moreover, the landmarks and traces emerging from this innovative, scripted geography also remain ephemeral, and are destined, for the most part, to be inexpressible. It is through this complex window on a world marked by the moving and meeting of worlds, the mixing or even the crossing of cultures, and in response to the era of globalization, that J.M.G. Le Cl ezio positions literature and its justification as a founding and liberating agent in the world. Through literature, he revives the question of engagement
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies | 2009
Sahar Amer; Martine Antle
Les portraits photographiques de Youssef Nabil déroutent par leur singularité et leur originalité et nous invitent à repenser la culture contemporaine franco-arabe. Retouchés au pinceau, ces portraits engagent en un premier temps un dialogue avec les lieux communs de la photo hollywoodienne depuis les années 1900 et font appel à des modes de narrativisation complexes. Car en effet, ses portraits dépassent le premier effet conventionnel de la reconnaissance et prennent la forme d’un oracle qu’on interroge. Les retouches au pinceau qui accentuent les contours des visages, des yeux et des lèvres des personnages de Youssef Nabil, font allusion aux développements du médium photo photographiques, à ceux du cinéma tout autant qu’à l’éthique de l’époque postmoderne, période dans laquelle on a ravivé les photographies anciennes et les films en noir et blanc par le biais de la couleur. Ce sont précisément ces effets techniques qui donnent un sens d’étrangeté et qui mettent en scène une dimension spectrale. Clin d’œil sans doute à l’esthétique postmoderne et aux romanciers minimalistes des Editions de Minuit qui, depuis les années 1980, s’attachent à faire du neuf avec du vieux, les photographies de Youssef Nabil réveillent notre mémoire collective, tout en nous ramenant, néanmoins, dans le présent.
South Atlantic Review | 2002
Martine Antle
South Atlantic Review | 1990
Martine Antle; Laura Oswald
French Forum | 2007
Martine Antle
L'Esprit Créateur | 1997
Martine Antle
South Central Review | 2015
Martine Antle; Katharine Conley
South Central Review | 2015
Martine Antle
L'Esprit Créateur | 2013
Martine Antle
Le forme e la storia | 2012
Martine Antle; Jacqueline Dougherty