Essays in French Literature and Culture

Essays in French Literature and Culture

Discipline	French studies
Peer-reviewed	.
Language	French, English
Edited by	Hélène Jaccomard, PhD
Publication details
Former name(s)	Essays in French Literature
History	1964-present
Publisher	The University of Western Australia
Frequency	Yearly
ISO 4	Find out here
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1835-7040
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Essays in French Literature and Culture is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. It was launched in 1964 by Professor James R. Lawler, the Foundation Chair of French Studies at this University. This publication focuses on French Studies, in a broad sense. From its inception, the journal’s main aim has been “to draw attention to broader aspects of French literary culture”. Over the years, hundreds of scholarly articles, written in both French and English, have been published on related topics. The Journal is currently available in print and electronically on the Web.

History

Essays in French Literature was created in 1964 by James R. Lawler, one year after his appointment as Professor of French Studies at the University of Western Australia. In 1975, during a time of old-fashioned print technology and editor's wide editorial and academic freedom, the journal's editorship passed on to Professor Denis Boak who, in a commemorative issue celebrating the journal's fiftieth anniversary, argues that Essays in French Literature was a "free-standing intellectual endeavour” providing “an extra outlet for young scholars to publish”. Professor Andrew Hunwick succeeded Professor Boak as editor in 1995, taking the reins of the Journal at a time of great structural and technological changes, not only in Australian universities, but also in academic publishing. Successful in meeting the challenges of the time, Professor Hunwick managed to maintain the independence and reputation of the journal. When Professor Hélène Jaccomard took over the role of Managing Editor in 2007, ensuring the availability of the Journal both in print and online was an all-important matter. Moreover, a growing interest in cultural studies in the field of French studies led to a widening of the scope of the journal and its renaming in 2008. The new title "Essays in French Literature and Culture" reflects this wider emphasis on culture while maintaining the Journal's literary concerns and integrity.

Editorial Board

Currently Prof. Hélène Jaccomard and A/Prof. Bonnie Thomas are respectively its Managing Editor and Associate Editor. The Editorial Board is made up of the following academics: Dr. Rosemary Lancaster, University of Western Australia, Prof. Peter Morgan, University of Sydney, Prof. Srilata Ravi, University of Alberta, and Dr. Jean-Marie-Volet, University of Western Australia.

Contents

The first issue of Essays in French Literature includes six scholarly articles dealing with canonical authors such as Mallarmé, Claudel, Valéry, Sartre and Nathalie Sarraute. Hundreds of other pieces followed between1964 and 2007, addressing an ever-increasing array of works and subject matters drawing attention to specific aspects of French literary culture. To this day, the fundamental tenet of the journal has not changed, but from 2008 each issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture has been dedicated to a theme reflecting intellectual, cultural and literary debates pertaining to French and Francophone literatures and cultures. Of late, every issue has also included a miscellaneous section welcoming contributions that did not directly relate to the issue's theme and, occasionally, creative pieces such as poetry or interviews. The Editorial Board welcomes suggestions of themes by guest editors.

Themes of past issues

• Foreign? Writing in French (2008)
• Sports (2009)
• Landscape and Memory (2010 and 2011)
• The paratext revisited (2012). Guest editors: Alistair Rolls and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, University of Newcastle (Australia)
• Playtime (2013). Guest editors: Françoise Grauby and Michelle Royer, University of Sydney (Australia)
• Représenter la Grande Guerre: les écrivains et les artistes face à l’épreuve (1914-1920) (2014). Guest editor: Gary D. Mole, University of Bar-Ilan (Israel)
• Diaspora, afropolitanisme et littérature congolaise (2015). Guest editors: Srilata Ravi, University of Alberta (Canada), and Jean-Marie Volet, University of Western Australia

Latest issue

• Conflict, dialogue and representation (2016). Guest editors: Kerry Mullan, Chantal Crozet, RMIT University (Australia)

Kerry Mullan and Chantal Crozet, Introduction.

Alexandra Kurmann, Internal Dialogue as Means of Collective Conflict Resolution in Linda Lê’s Exile Writing.

Françoise Grauby, Coups et blessures. Un cas particulier de la relation entre fiction et réalité: Pierre Jourde et La Première pierre.

Peter Brown, Conflict and reconciliation in New Caledonian theatre.

Caroline Trousseau, La traduction de l’aboriginalité: tendances et stratégies.

Elizabeth Rechniewski, Representing Conscripts’ Experience of Counter-Insurgency Warfare on Screen: Laurent Herbiet’s Mon Colonel.

Sophie Patrick, Declinism, nihilism and conflict avoidance in the novels of Michel Houellebecq.

Sidney Smith, Unfeminine revolutionaries?: Four Moroccan women write about sex.

Fanny Pascual, Nommer le conflit en Nouvelle-Calédonie des années 1980: des événements à la guerre.

Narelle Fletcher, “A genocide of little importance”: the impact of the terminology used by members of the French government on the representation of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.

Hamid Mokaddem, La “Souvraineté partagée” conflictuelle en Nouvelle-Calédonie.

Next issue

• Hidden words, hidden worlds: everyday life and narrative sources (France 1939-1945), (Forthcoming 2017). Guest editors: Lindsey Dodd, University of Ubbersfield, and Wendy Michallat, University of Sheffield (U.K.)

Indexing

Indexed in the Thomson Citation Index, the journal is available online via Informit, the portal EBSCO and the scholarly journal portal ProQuest.

Ordering

Orders can be placed with The Coop http://www.coop.com.au or directly through the UWA e-shop https://payments.uwa.edu.au/EssaysinFrenchLiterature/menu