Browsing by Author "Solterer, Helen"

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    L'art et la terreur dans l'après-attentats, Paris 2015 – Fred Le Chevalier et Renald Luzier
    (2017-05-08) Johnson, Victoria
    This thesis explores the intersection of terrorism and art in response to the two high profile terrorist attacks in Paris: Charlie Hebdo, and the attacks of November 13th, 2015. First, I examine the historical and political context of the attacks, including the declaration of an “état d’urgence” immediately following the November 13th attacks, as well as the history of islamophobia in France. By analyzing the works of critics including Gilles Kepel and Patrick Boucheron, as well as integrating my own personal experience of being in Paris immediately following the November 13th attacks, I argue that the occurrence of a terrorist attack is a catalyst for the creation of powerful artistic works. The art created can serve two primary functions: a social tool to help unite and heal a community, and a form of personal expression. I then examine and analyze the works of two French artists who embody this hypothesis, street artist Fred le Chevalier and former Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald Luzier (Luz). I offer the hypothesis that Luz considers the art-terror relationship, whereas Le Chevalier does not.
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    Migrants shaping Europe, past and present: Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures
    Solterer, H; Joos, V
    This comparative volume examines the sustained contribution of migrants to Europe’s literatures, social cultures, and arts over centuries. Europe has never been a continent bounded by the seas that surround it. In premodern times, migrants imprinted the languages, arts, and literatures of the places where they settled. They contributed to these cultures and economies. Some were on the move in search of a better life; others were displaced by war, dispossessed, expelled; while still others were brought in servitude to European cities to work, enslaved. Today’s immigration flows in Europe are not exceptional but anchored in this longue durée process. Iberia/Maghreb, Sicily/Lampedusa, Calais are the three hotspots considered in this volume. These regions have been shaped and continue to be shaped by migrants; by their cultures; their Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Somali; their French, English and Mandarin languages. They are also shaped by migrants’ struggles. The scholars and artists who wrote Migrants shaping Europe, past and present compose a new significant chapter in the cultural history of European migration by reflecting on the forces that have put people into motion since the premodern period and by examining the visual arts, literature, and multilingual social worlds fostered by migration. This historically expansive and multilingual approach to mobility and expressiveness makes a crucial contribution: migrants as a lifeblood of European cultures.
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    Superman in Italy: The power of refugee artists
    (2022-10-25) Ziolkowski, Saskia
    This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today.
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    Une Biographie Critique de Marie-Thérèse Eyquem : Pionnière du Sport, du Féminisme, et de la Politique
    (2017-05-12) Morris, Hannah
    This thesis explores in the form of a critical biography the life trajectory of Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (1913-1978). As sports administrator under the Vichy regime, author, feminist, and Socialist activist under Pres. François Mitterrand, Eyquem worked in a variety of social, political spaces where she exerted considerable influence. In this thesis, I argue over the course of five chapters that Eyquem claims a model of women’s liberation distinguished from the dominant model of the female intellectual and writer: that of the sportswoman and the institution builder. In her political work, her personal life, and her writing Eyquem embodies this alternate way of thinking about the autonomous woman. Eyquem played a little known and crucial role in the fight for legalizing women’s reproductive rights. Further, in each chapter save the first I compare Eyquem to her better-known contemporaries in the rhetorical form of a diptych. This technique allows me to nuance her life through comparison and understand her decisions as part of a network of larger social relations. In this biographical thesis I aim to contribute to the only existing work on Eyquem’s life (Florys Castan Vicente, 2009). My structure and focus on Eyquem’s feminist model provides a more complete portrait of Eyquem’s influential life and contributions while it adds to ongoing debates in feminist thought.