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ILCEA est une revue portée par lUnité de recherche multilingue et interdisciplinaire ILCEA4 (Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie – E.A. 7356). Elle présente les travaux de spécialistes en langues, cultures, littératures et civilisations des espaces anglophone, germanophone, hispanophone, slave, oriental (arabe, chinois, japonais) et italophone, ainsi qu'en traduction spécialisée et langues de spécialité. Publiée à un rythme trimestriel, la revue propose des numéros thématiques sur appels à contributions.

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62 | 2026
Mémoires de l’exil et des migrations : médiations matérielles et artistiques

Memories of Exile and Migration: Material and Artistic Mediations
Edited by Karen Akoka , Janice Argaillot , Mariana Dominguez Villaverde and Philippe Hanus

The reflection proposed in this volume seeks to explore narratives of migration and exile as they are constructed and expressed not only through language, but also through objects, gestures, and places imbued with memory. These are approached as privileged forms of mediation of memory, capable of reconfiguring past experiences and bringing into the public sphere alternative narratives to those that have been institutionally established.
The migratory experience disrupts spatial, temporal, and identity-related reference points. It leaves behind traces (material, narrative, affective) as well as absences that become durably inscribed in individual biographies and collective memories. The question of their transmission, particularly across generations, raises fundamental issues: how are collective memories of exile constructed? Which social actors (families, institutions, artists) carry, transform, or sometimes erase them? And how are migratory traumas transmitted—or silenced—within family narratives or in society at large?
The contributions highlight the distinctive role played by artistic practices (songs, comics, literature) in shaping narratives of exile. However, they also show that this narrative construction is not limited to established artistic forms: artisanal know-how, manual traditions, and everyday cultural practices—such as cooking—also participate in these memorial dynamics, embedding the experience of migration in gestures, objects, and transmitted practices.
This exploration is grounded in an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, drawing on cultural history, the sociology of migration, anthropology, and literary and artistic studies.

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