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This essay ponders over the dismissal of reading practices and theories that were linked to the modernist shift from 'literature' to 'writing' ( écriture) in the second half of the twentieth century. It provides an intellectual genealogy of the rise and fall of the writing/reading couple, before going on to consider the cultural effects – as well as the educational and institutional consequences in academia – of the challenge to literature's 'cultural difference' mounted by both cognitivist and culturalist approaches to literature, in their turn away from or against 'language'.

Looking back at literary writings produced in the seventies by some of the women engaged in the French Women's liberation movement, and more specifically at the way the body and bodies were at once celebrated, figured and dismantled in a number of these texts, I argue that a proto-queer de-normativization and reconceptualization of the body with respect to «sex» and sexual duality was already at work at the time, on both a political and aesthetic level. A serious look back at the writings of that period challenges the widespread view that women writers of that time tended to hold on to an essentialist or naturalistic notion of women's writing. ; Looking back at literary writings produced in the seventies by some of the women engaged in the French Women's liberation movement, and more specifically at the way the body and bodies were at once celebrated, figured and dismantled in a number of these texts, I argue that a proto-queer de-normativization and reconceptualization of the body with respect to «sex» and sexual duality was already at work at the time, on both a political and aesthetic level. A serious look back at the writings of that period challenges the widespread view that women writers of that time tended to hold on to an essentialist or naturalistic notion of women's writing.

Considerando la escritura literaria producida en los años setenta por algunas de las mujeres que participaron en el Movimiento de Liberación de las Mujeres francés y, más concretamente, la manera en que algunos de estos textos celebraban, figuraban y desmantelaban el cuerpo y los cuerpos, planteo que, ya en ese momento, se estaba produciendo una desnormativización y una reconceptualización proto-queer del cuerpo en relación con el «sexo» y con la dualidad sexual, tanto en el plano político como en el estético. Una mirada rigurosa a la escritura de ese período cuestiona la opinión generalizada de que las escritoras de ese momento tendían a sostener una noción esencialista o naturalista de la escritura de las mujeres. ; Looking back at literary writings produced in the seventies by some of the women engaged in the French Women's liberation movement, and more specifically at the way the body and bodies were at once celebrated, figured and dismantled in a number of these texts, I argue that a proto-queer de-normativization and reconceptualization of the body with respect to «sex» and sexual duality was already at work at the time, on both a political and aesthetic level. A serious look back at the writings of that period challenges the widespread view that women writers of that time tended to hold on to an essentialist or naturalistic notion of women's writing.

From its founding, women's and gender studies developed along a transatlantic epistemological and geopolitical axis. An interdisciplinary field, it fostered difficult conversations among disciplines that had each developed its own conceptual language. Women's and gender studies is thus centrally concerned with crossing(s), whether crossing(s) functions as a political goal, a meta-metaphor for the field's variegated theoretical endeavor, or as the name of a multifaceted epistemological problem. This essay focuses on the problem of translation as a form and act of crossing in the geopolitical context of globalization. It asks whether translation, a neohumanist practice of transnational exchange premised on the irreducibility of idioms and the hospitality to differences, can withstand the homogenizing pull of globalization. And it asks what the collapse of differences might do to an intellectual, political, and social field whose very raison d'être has been and continues to be the excavation of unrecognized or unwanted differences and the promotion of plurality.

anne-emmanuelle berger is Professor of French Literature at Cornell University and Visiting Professor at the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines at Paris VIII University. Her recent publications include Algeria in Others' Languages (Cornell University Press, 2002)and Scènes d'aumône: Misère et poésie au XIXe siècle (Champion, 2004). She is currently writing on Derrida.

At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something new. Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. The author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of gender and sexuality

Preliminary material /Editors Demenageries -- Thoughtprints /Anne E. Berger and Marta Segarra -- Animal Writes: Derrida's Que Donc and Other Tails /Marie-Dominique Garnier -- On a Serpentine Note /Ginette Michaud -- Ver(s): Toward a Spirituality of One's Own /Claudia Simma -- When Sophie Loved Animals /Anne E. Berger -- Deconstruction and Petting: Untamed Animots in Derrida and Kafka /Joseph Lavery -- Say the Ram Survived: Altering the Binding of Isaac in Jacques Derrida's "Rams" and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace /Adeline Rother -- Crowds and Powerlessness: Reading //kabbo and Canetti with Derrida in (South) Africa /Rosalind C. Morris -- "Tout Autre est Tout Autre" /James Siegel -- Meditations for the Birds /David Wills -- CONTRIBUTORS /Editors Demenageries.

Un spectre hante l'Université française : celui de la déconstruction. Créé par Jacques Derrida à la fin des années 1960, ce concept est devenu, dans l'esprit des réactionnaires de tout poil, le mot-valise désignant tout ce qu'ils haïssent dans la pensée, lorsque celle-ci cherche à émanciper davantage qu'à ordonner. Dégénérescence de la culture, mépris pour les grandes œuvres, délire interprétatif, amphigouri linguistique, danger politique, confusion sexuelle, licence morale : à en croire les ennemis de la déconstruction, tout ce qui va mal dans le monde lui est imputable. Que signifie la fixation frénétique d'une frange d'intellectuels sur tout ce qui peut ressembler à une pensée différente, inventive et fondamentalement démocratique ? Que cela signifie-t-il, si ce n'est la volonté de policer la pensée et ses institutions, pour mieux, ensuite, policer les corps ? Telle est l'interrogation qui a présidé au colloque « Qui a peur de la déconstruction ? », qui s'est tenu à l'École normale supérieure et à la Sorbonne en janvier 2023. En voici les actes.