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Publication collective : "The Care (Re)Turn"

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Loic Bourdeau)

The Care (Re)Turn in Contemporary French & Francophone Cultural Productions

Editors: Dr. Loic Bourdeau, Dr. Natalie Edwards, Dr. Steven Wilson

 

In his recent contribution, Réparer le monde. La littérature française au XXIe siècle, Alexandre Gefen argues that we have reached a "tournant esthético-éthique" according to which « [l]a littérature se proclame utile parce qu’elle nous met en contact avec des expériences de pensées à valeur morale, et [...]parce qu'elle nous permet de ressaisir l’altérité dans une société éclatée en individus » (13). Drawing on "care ethics" (Carol Gilligan), as does Gefen, this special issue seeks to investigate contemporary French and Francophone artistic productions (literature, cinema, BD, etc.) in an attempt to highlight strategies of writing care, empathy, and social engagement. 

Considering, as Camille Laurens posits in her novel Philippe, that "[l]e médecin et l’écrivain font le même métier: ils lisent des signes. Que ces signes soient émis par le corps ou par le monde, il s’agit toujours de les déchiffrer et de les interpréter," what signs do contemporary productions bring forth? How do artists engage with social turmoil and struggles? How do cultural productions on care engage with medical discourses and to what end? 

Possible topics include:

- representations of maternity, paternity, adoption and child care

- self care

- end-of-life care

- caring for the elderly 

- disability and care

- marginality and diversity

- care ethics then and now

- care ethics, feminism, and literature

- queer ethics are care ethics?

- caring for the "outsider", the "marginalized" in society

- emotions: lack or predominance

- society of the spectacle

- the poetics of care

- literature as care / bibliotherapy

Abstracts of 350 words, including a short biography, should be sent to loic.bourdeau@icloud.com by February 15, 2019. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the three editors of the issue. Full articles will be due in Fall 2019 and will be peer-reviewed by experts in the relevant fields. Further information about the selected journal will be shared later on in the process. Inquiries welcome.