3.1 | 2025
Transmission(s)
This special issue devoted to “Transmission(s)” stems from the SEPC workshop in arts and literatures held at the annual Congress of the SAES in Rennes in June 2023. It gathers ten articles that mostly read the concept of transmission against the grain by focusing on breaks, discrepancies, silences and shifts at work when norms, narratives and cultural forms are transmitted. The essays lay the emphasis, first, on the enduring disjunctions resulting from colonialism and on its diverse incarnations, from American imperialism to global North restrictions to migration and uneven globalization at large. Second, they also reflect on contemporary appropriations of pre-colonial and colonial history and culture through subaltern perspectives. By covering a wide array of artistic and literary forms, from novels to short stories, nonfiction narratives and folk tales, photography, painting and sculptures, the authors delineate the multiple transmission lines and patterns imagined by writers and artists, offering new models, contesting others, eschewing expected pathways. Particularly remarkable is the way in which they open up categories that have sometimes been fossilized by postcolonial theory when it comes to transmission, challenging simple binaries.
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Transmission(s). Introduction [Texte intégral]
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