Call for Papers "Influence, resistance and transfer in French American cultural relationship" Echo: A polyglot and cross cultural journal http://www.echopolyglot.com
Echo is a polyglot journal which aims to explore the linguistic, philosophical and aesthetic impacts of the notion of diversity. The cultural plurality that Echo wants to reflect and diffuse opens this journal to a diversity of views and means of expression. With no boundaries on genres, Echo will collate theoretical, narrative, poetic and theatrical texts. The submitted texts will be read under anonymity so that all the published articles will be refered. Theme of the next issue: Influence, resistance and transfer in French American cultural relationship. Since Tocqueville and Jefferson, numerous are the political, literary and artistic examples of the vitality and the animosity of the cultural exchanges between France and the United States. Since WWII the influence of French thought on the American academic elite has been dominating. Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Cixous, Deleuze, Baudrillard most of the theoretical texts from the sixties to the nineties are interspersed with those references. Thirty years of French Theory and Continental Philosophy in the United States have undeniably developed and broadened the scope the French theories beyond their premise. We also know that French intellectuals have been skeptical about the relevance of the provocative applications of French Theory that American scholars have undertaken. Does this mean that the model has eventually lost the control of its influence and has reversed into a resistant attitude to any progressive development of those theories? Moreover, is the diverted legacy of the French thought still relevant today in the American Academic? Or does the cultural influence come now from the other side? Thinking of the recent French enthusiasm for American crime novels and thrillers or the new French acknowledgement (under the influence of American Post Colonial Studies) of the multicultural stakes in its own cultural history. The intellectual and cultural imbroglio between the two countries underlines the ambivalence and the mobility of cross-cultural relationship, which can never be limited to a unilateral or a dominating-dominated link. We invite you to write on these questions and suggest below a few related topics: - Hiatus between French and American novels of the last 50 years. - The artistic stage of the last 50 years. - Decline of the influence of the French Theory? - French fascination for the marginalized America, legible in American investigation novels (James Ellroy, Paul Auster, Rick Moody...) - French and American movies: beyond the simplistic antagonism between Independant film (Cinéma dauteur) and Hollywood. Please send any submissions to <[email protected]>, with the following information, before February 28, 2006: Name Short bio-bibliography Address Telephone E-mail Fax Title of the Article Short abstract Contact: Pierre-Louis Fort Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.echopolyglot.com _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
