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| Volume 74, No. 2 | December, 2000 |
243 From the Editor's Desk |
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| PEDAGOGY | ||
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Stacey Katz "A Functional Approach to the Teaching of the French C'est-cleft" |
In this article, I describe the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the c'est-cleft, a construction that is found with great frequency in both spoken and written French. My purpose is to suggest strategies to language teachers for instructing their students to use it correctly in discourse. In order to provide second language learners with the tools that they need to produce language that is more like that of native speakers, they must receive not only ample exposure to various constructions but also an explanation of how these constructions are formed and how they function in discourse. |
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Roberta Tucker "Mallarmé's 'Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui' for First-Semester French Students or Who Decreed Only Prévert for First Year?" |
This article describes an experiment in exposing students to and in teaching them to appreciate high-quality, highly evolved language use from the beginning of their language study. The purpose was to show them a world most had never even suspected existed before, to enlighten them as to the possibilities of verbal expression, and to give them the skills and confidence to explore that world further, if they so desired. The project was carried out using a very well-known poem from a recognized master, breaking it down into appreciable parts, pacing and creating suspense and drama in its presentation, and making the expected student response challenging but manageable. |
| LITERATURE | ||
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Judith Holland Sarnecki "Mastering the Masters: Aimé Césaire's Creolization of Shakespeare's The Tempest" |
In 1969 Aimé Césaire adapted Shakespeare's The Tempest for a black audience. Ahead of its time, the play has often been overlooked or misunderstood. Mastering the language of the "masters," Césaire rewrites the relationship between Prospero and Caliban, allowing Caliban finally to talk back. The resulting explosion of words, so well suited to the history and topography of Martinique, Césaire's island home, shakes the colonizer's confidence and has as its goal the raising of a revolutionary consciousness among its audience. By "corrupting" the purity of the French language with African words, rhythms, and cultural referents, Césaire "creolizes" the bard's final play, prefiguring the work of younger Martinican authors such as Glissant, Chamoiseau, Bernabé, and Confiant. |
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Deborah B. Gaensbauer "Geography and Identity in Maryse Condé's Dieu nous l'a donné" |
Maryse Condé, widely recognized as a novelist who explores the complex geographies of colonial and postcolonial experience, began her career as a radical playwright. Her first published work was a five-act play titled Dieu nous l'a donné. Using the heightened materiality of the stage to confront misogynic territorial connotations and clichés, Condé offers an angry and potentially liberating geography lesson. Her portrayal of the promiscuous permeability and subversive resilience of Caribbean feminine spaces challenges reader or spectator with positions of identity that do not conform to either Western social models or optimistic celebrations of a nourishing Créolité. |
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Florence Martin "Echos et grains de voix dans Le Jujubier du patriarche d'Aminata Sow Fall" |
La romancière sénégalaise Aminata Sow Fall construit ici un texte écrit sur un certain nombre de pré-textes dont celui du récit de fondation de la dynastie selon la tradition orale ouest-africaine. Cette étude propose de mettre au clair ces pré-textes, d'analyser, à la lumière d'une relecture du mythe d'Écho, comment une narratrice jusqu'alors silencieuse prend la parole, subvertit le texte dominant, et raconte une nouvelle mythe-histoire orale au sein d'un roman. Se pose alors dans toute sa splendide complexité le problème du "grain" de cette voix et de sa résonnance dans le corps intérieur de la lectrice. |
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Douglas L. Boudreau "Anglophone Presence in the Early Novels of Anne Hébert" |
This article examines the role of anglais/English-ness in three novels by Anne Hébert. Represented primarily by George Nelson from Kamouraska, the war bride from Les Enfants du sabbat, and Griffin Creek in Les Fous de Bassan, this presence is examined in view of its relationship to the Francophone presence in the text and informed by the history of French and English interaction in Quebec. The Anglais in Hébert's work seem destined for a bad end, and this study will look at the connection between this fate and the quality of being anglais. |
IN YOUR CORNER: FOCUS ON THE CLASSROOM |
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Katrien N. Christie and Radmila Vuchic "FLYing with French on Saturdays: The Magic of a Ninety-Minute Class for Young Learners" |
In this paper we describe FLY, or Foreign Languages for Youngsters, a Saturday morning French program for elementary school children. After reviewing the state of French instruction in the US, we describe the FLY program, rationale, objectives, curriculum, and methodology. The three goals of the program are to introduce young learners to foreign language learning, to develop motivation for further language studies, and to foster awareness and appreciation of global cultures. The ninety-minute format provides an input-rich atmosphere conducive to creative language learning in which students naturally progress from Exploring to Experiencing, Experimenting with, and Enjoying the creative usage of French. |
INTERVIEW |
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Bruno Thibault "Entretien avec Danièle Sallenave" |
Cet entretien avec Danièle Sallenave, réalisé au cours de l'automne 1998, présente une analyse de son ¦uvre de romancière et d'essayiste. Dans la première partie de l'entretien, l'écrivain discute sa vision éthique de la littérature, notamment à propos des Portes de Gubbio (prix Renaudot 1980) et des Trois Minutes du diable (1994). Dans la seconde partie de l'interview, l'auteur précise ses prises de position à propos de certains grands débats contemporains, notamment l'affaire des foulards, le post-féminisme, le débat sur la parité, la guerre et le tiers-monde, la question de l'enseignement et le problème de la délégitimation culturelle. |
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356 Colette Dio: "La Vie des mots" |
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REVIEWS |
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LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM |
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| 360 | Baron, Philippe et Ian Pickup, éds., Aspects de la critique (Thierry Durand); | |
| 361 | Rabaté, Jean-Michel, The Ghosts of Modernity (Adelia V. Williams); | |
| 361 | Compagnon, Antoine, Le Démon de la théorie: littérature et sens commun (Roland A. Champagne); | |
| 362 | Duval, Edwin M., The Design of Rabelais's Tiers Livre de Pantagruel (Edmund J. Campion); | |
| 363 | Bury, Emmanuel, Littérature et politesse: l'invention de l'honnête homme 1580-1750 (Buford Norman); | |
| 364 | Schomberg, Jeanne de, Règlement donné par une dame de haute qualité à M*** sa petite-fille, pour sa conduite, & pour celle de sa maison (Alice J. Strange); | |
| 365 | Forestier, Georges, Corneille: le sens d'une dramaturgie (Harriet Allentuch); | |
| 367 | Kim, Sung, Les Récits dans La Princesse de Clèves: tentative d'analyse structurale (Marie-France Hilgar); | |
| 368 | La Bruyère, Les Caractères (Edmund J. Campion); | |
| 369 | Lafon, Henri, Espaces romanesques du XVIIIe siècle, 1670-1820 (Gita May); | |
| 369 | Pulcini, Elena, Amour-passion et amour conjugal (Alan J. Singerman); | |
| 370 | Henry, Freeman G., ed., Relire Théophile Gautier: le plaisir du texte (William G. Allen); | |
| 371 | Dayan, Peter, Lautréamont et Sand (Annabelle M. Rea); | |
| 373 | Le Champ littéraire 1860-1900: études offertes à Michael Pakenham (Hollie Markland Harder); | |
| 374 | La Spiritualité verlainienne (Susan F. Crampton); | |
| 375 | Hobson, Leighton, ed., Maeterlinck: Pelléas et Mélisande; Les Aveugles; L'Intruse; Intérieur (James P. Gilroy); | |
| 376 | Winn, Phillip, Sexualités décadentes chez Jean Lorrain: le héros fin de sexe (Scott Manning); | |
| 378 | Francis, Claude, and Fernande Gontier, Colette; Castillo, Michel del, Colette, une certaine France (Melanie Hawthorne); | |
| 379 | Racevskis, Karlis, ed., Critical Essays on Michel Foucault (Martine Delvaux); | |
| 380 | Pilardi, Jo-Ann, Simone de Beauvoir: Writing the Self (Nina Hellerstein). | |
SOCIETY AND CULTURE |
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381 |
Amossy, Ruth et Michel Delon, éds., Critique et légitimité du préjugé (XVIIIe-XXe siècle)(Jacques Laroche); |
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| 382 | Andress, David, French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799 (Catherine Danielou); | |
| 383 | Johnson, Martin P., The Dreyfus Affair: Honour and Politics in the Belle Epoque (Linda Beane Katner); | |
384 |
Chafer, Tony, and Amanda Sackur, eds., French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front: Hope and Disillusionment (Lauren Yoder); |
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| 385 | Meyers, Odette, Doors to Madame Marie (Dora E. Polachek); | |
| 386 | Green, Anne-Marie, Musicien de Métro: approche des musiques vivantes urbaines (Raymond Cormier); | |
| 388 | Boucher, Manuel, RAP, expression des lascars: signification et enjeux du Rap dans la société française (Andre J. M. Prevos); | |
| 389 | Fenby, Jonathan, France on the Brink (Homer B. Sutton). | |
CREATIVE WORKS |
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| 390 | Albertini, Michel, Les Merdicoles (Ahmed Bouguarche); | |
| 391 | Brissac, Elvire de, Les Anges d'en-bas (Karen D. Levy); | |
| 392 | Chawaf, Chantal, Issa (Monique Saigal); | |
| 393 | Drevet, Patrick, Le Sourire (Gervais E. Reed); | |
| 394 | Dubois, Jean-Paul, Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi (Kenneth J. Fleurant); | |
| 395 | Fellous, Colette, Le Petit Casino (Nina Ekstein); | |
| 396 | Frain, Irène, L'Inimitable (Véronique Anover); | |
| 398 | Hébert, Anne, Un Habit de lumière (Karin Egloff); | |
| 399 | Huston, Nancy, Prodige (Patrice J. Proulx); | |
| 400 | Lalonde, Robert, Le Vaste Monde and Le Vacarmeur (Normand J. Lamoureux); | |
| 402 | Laurrent, Eric, Remue-ménage (Warren Motte); | |
| 403 | Nys-Mazure, Colette, Célébration du quotidien (Renée Linkhorn); | |
| 404 | Pennac, Daniel, Aux fruits de la passion (Michael Kline); | |
| 405 | Rezvani, Serge, Un Fait divers esthétique (Roland A. Champagne); | |
| 407 | Rufin, Jean-Christophe, Les Causes perdues (Jacques Laroche); | |
| 408 | Salvayre, Lydie, La Vie commune (Marie Naudin). | |
LINGUISTICS |
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Choi-Jonin, Injoo, and Corinne Delhay, Introduction à la méthodologie en linguistique: application au français contemporain (Thomas J. Cox); |
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| 410 | Deneire, Marc, Une Politique d'assimilation: le français dans le Midwest américain (Daniel Lepetit); | |
| 411 | Gohard-Radenkovic, Aline, Communiquer en langue étrangère: de compétences culturelles vers des compétences linguistiques (Julie Herschensohn); | |
| 412 | Joly, Geneviève, Précis d'ancien français (Jurgen Klausenburger). | |
COURSE MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY |
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| 413 | De tous côtés (Eileen M. Angelini); | |
| 415 | Echenberg, Eva Neisser, and Marie-Claude Rostaing, Parcours Workbook Livre 1; Duchaine, Diane, La France Parcours Copymasters (Nancy Gadbois); | |
| 417 | Loughrin-Sacco, Steven J., and Jayne Abrate, eds., Making Business French Work: Models, Materials, Methodologies (Marie-Simone Pavlovich). | |
FILM |
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| 418 | The Children of Chabannes (Patrick Henry); | |
| 419 | Douin, Jean-Luc, Bertrand Tavernier (Robert W. Webster). | |
421 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT |
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| 422 | LIST OF EDITORS | |
| 423 | GUIDE FOR AUTHORS | |
| 425 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
| 426 | DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS | |
439 AATF | ||
| 440 | INFORMATION PAGE | |
| 441 | OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION | |
| 443 | REGIONS AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES | |
| 443 | MEMBERSHIP AND SUBSCRIPTION FORM | |
| 444 | CHANGE OF ADDRESS PAGE | |
| 445 | ROSTER OF CHAPTER PRESIDENTS | |
| 446 | NATIONAL FRENCH CONTEST ADMINISTRATORS, 2000 | |
449 ADVERTISING |
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