Margaret Atwood - De la dystopie à la métafiction dans The Handmaid's Tale - Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle 1 Les références renvoient à la première édition : Toronto : McClelland &Stewart, 1985, même paginat (...) 2 Barbara Hill Rigney, “Dystopia,” Canadian Literature, 111 (Winter 1986), 143. 3 Etudes Canadiennes, no 21, tome 1, (1985). 4 “Margaret Atwood and the Dystopian Tradition”, Canadian Literature, 112 (1987). 5 “A Writer For All Theories,” Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works, (...) 6 Ildiko de Papp Carrington, “A Swiftian Sermon” Essays on Canadian Writing, 34 (Spring 1987), 127; (...) 1Les premiers articles consacrés au roman ont insisté sur la dystopie et ses rapports avec le féminisme2. C’était la lecture la plus évidente. Cependant dans l’article que je publiai alors3 j’attirais l’attention sur la multiplicité des lectures possibles de ce roman. De son côté, Amin Maïak4 tenait des propos convergents. 7 Hélène Greven, Formes du roman utopique en Grande-Bretagne (1918-1970), Rouen : PUR, Paris : PUF, (...) I hold myself absolutely rigid.
Bilitis Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop Parody S&Ds want human rights and sustainability included in EU-China investment agreement | Socialists & Democrats Today the European Parliament gave a mandate to the European Commission to engage in negotiations with China for an investment agreement. This agreement will replace 26 individual bilateral agreements signed by EU member states and it will have a big impact on EU industry and businesses. In the plenary vote, MEPs called for a well-balanced partnership, based on regular high-level dialogue and mutual benefits, rather than engaging in competitive confrontations. As requested by the Socialists and Democrats, the mandate calls for human rights and sustainability standards to be included in the agreement. The chairman of the international trade committee, S&D MEP Vital Moreira, said: "We expect transparency in the negotiations and a constant flow of information to the Parliament. "The EU should ensure it includes due protection for intellectual property rights (IPR), industrial property, brands and geographic indications." S&D spokesperson on trade, MEP Bernd Lange, said:
Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale | Television & radio We are all, when push comes to shove, just waiting for death. Here we are, hurtling through space on a disintegrating planet, presided over by maniacs, hunkered down in front of the TV with our loved ones, hoping for the odd moment of levity before the end comes. What are we given by way of a salve? Watching the second series, in which Offred/June (Elisabeth Moss) gets within spitting distance of freedom before being dragged back to Gilead by her ankles, has been like witnessing a road accident in which the family pet is run over and the driver, a sadist with a grudge against the animal kingdom, gleefully reverses over the hapless creature again and again. We have seen women gagged and lined up on a scaffold in a mock execution in order to school them in the consequences of dissent. Should we be surprised? In an ideal world, the series would have ended triumphantly after one season. Sunday, 9pm, Channel 4 … we have a small favour to ask.
NSA Blurred Lines Holidays in the sun: now I gotta reason... Whenever I think of summer holidays I almost involuntarily hear the Sex Pistols’ scornful punk classic Holidays In The Sun ricocheting around in my head. As you’ll recall, this opens with the unforgettable “A cheap holiday in other people’s misery” line and continues with: “I don’t wanna holiday in the sun / I wanna go to the new Belsen.” (Check out this footage of the band performing it in, suitably enough, Penzance!). Hmm, in the mood for your holiday now? Yes, the deeply-entrenched British (northern European? Phew! But when all is said and done, it’s only a holiday. Woah! I think the theory is roughly right actually. So no, it’s not really a question of the Sex Pistols’ cheap holidays in other people’s misery (though wider issues of ethical tourism are definitely bound up in John Lydon’s lacerating lyrics). Right, now I’ve dealt with that it’s time to pull the Sex Pistols record off the turntable, power down the computer and have a well-deserved breather. View latest posts
This art exhibit asks "What Were You Wearing?" to break down stigmas surrounding sexual violence In a new art exhibit, they powerfully lay out their answers -- pajamas, jeans, sweatshirts and overalls -- and in doing so, fight off the blame society tries to cast onto them. The installation was curated by Lazaro Tejera, a fourth-year biology student who oversees the Gender and Sexualities in Medicine Committee as part of the university's American Medical Student Association Chapter. When Tejera found out about the visual project, first launched by the University of Arkansas in 2013, he knew he had to bring it to life at his own school. "I thought: I have the power, I have the support. He contacted members of STRIVE, a peer education group focusing on interpersonal violence, and began planning the exhibit last November. The team set up anonymous online submission forms and received over 36 entries, 12 of which became the clothes displayed at the event. Walking through the gallery, attendees get a glimpse of the horrors lived by those who have been assaulted, written in their own words.