Echo is being released at a moment when regional and global conflicts
threaten to deprive language of its natural pluralism. As if afraid of diversity,
otherness and difference, the process of thinking sometimes runs from the risk
to alter itself and, instead, repeats itself on a monologue and a claim
for the one. Echo aims to counter this tendency to "monolinguism" often
reduced to secluded and limited categories, such as sexual, religious, ehtinic
differences. As opposed to this taxonomic approach of plurality, Echo
wants to foster literay, aesthetic ans philosophical exploration of notions of
difference and plurality by displaying and confronting a transversal study of a
question.
Thus Echo provides
a forum for intellectual exchanges in English and French between writers,
artists, academics or critics. The cultural, transdisciplinary and linguistic
plurality that Echo will reflect opens the journal to a large variety of
forms of expression, such as fiction, poetry, theater, theory - recalling the
fundamental differential dimension of the act of speaking or writning -
principle that we ought to preserve.
Editor : Rachel Boué
Editorial Board : Inge Boer
†
(Univesrity of Amsterdam)
; Nathalie Duval (Editor at Charles Scribner's Sons New York); Pierre-Louis Fort
(University Paris VII) ;
Ida Kummer (UNIS) ; Catherine
Poisson (Wesleyan University) ; Alain Sancerni (Cultural Expert for the EU Brussels)
