Mireille Rosello

Pictures of a virus: ideological choices and the representation of HIV

any self-respecting reader or viewer will probably ignore the image of the person (in this case an unremarkable close-up shot of a woman) to concentrate on the powerful images produced by her words. We would not only be able to identify the recourse to verbal images but we would also be capable of appreciating the ideological value of her metaphors. Losing one’s way, getting dirty, those are easily identifiable, easily analysed images. And to say that a specific cluster of words is an image is the most basic of formulations. We tend to be more precise, to specify whether we are in the presence of a metaphor, of a comparison, or of a simile. In other words, we

Gisèle Halimi entre plainte et plaidoyer: ‘On naît avocate, on ne le devient pas’

This intellectual portrait of defence lawyer and feminist activist Gisèle Halimi tests the hypothesis that her writings function like one long closing argument in a courtroom, where a passionate ‘I’ fights for Justice not only by making sure that the Law is upheld but, when necessary, trying to change the Law with the weapons authorised by the judicial system—narratives and stories. Each word is at the service of the overall agenda. One of the unexpected textual consequences of this ethical position is that it becomes radically impossible to separate autobiography from history, or the voice of the renowned public figure of Maître Halimi from Gisèles ‘I’.

Globalization or `Guignolisation`: Derision and Liberalism

l’info or with the specifics of the French TV channel Canal+, their proud distributor, how could we explain their role and their contribution to the French anti-globalization discourse? It is interesting to note that Les Guignols de l’info were born at the same time as ATTAC, one of the largest, best-known and most active anti-globalization associations in France. Although Les Guignols’ role as public satirists is by no means reducible to their anti-globalization discourse, they belong to a vast and disparate network of anti-globalization voices whose rhetorical tactics are well worth exploring today. Les Guignols first appeared on the cultural scene at the end of the 1980s, French Cultural Studies, 14/2, 139–156 Copyright