Echo
is a polyglot journal which aims to explore the linguistic, philosophical and
aesthetic impacts of the notion of diversity. The cultural plurality that
Echo wants to reflect and diffuse opens this journal to a diversity of views
and means of expression. With no boundaries on genres, Echo will collate
theoretical, narrative, poetic and theatrical texts. The submitted texts will be
read under anonymity so that all the published articles will be refereed.
Theme of the next issue :
Influence,
resistance and transfer in French American cultural relationship.
Since Tocqueville and Jefferson, numerous are the
political, literary and artistic examples of the vitality and the animosity of
the cultural exchanges between France and the United States.
Since WWII the influence of French thought on the American
academic elite has been dominating. Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Cixous,
Deleuze, Baudrillard … most of the theoretical texts from the sixties to the
nineties are interspersed with those references. Thirty years of French Theory
and Continental Philosophy in the United States have undeniably developed and
broadened the scope the French theories beyond their premise. We also know that
French intellectuals have been skeptical about the relevance of the provocative
applications of French Theory that American scholars have undertaken. Does this
mean that the “model” has eventually lost the control of its influence and has
reversed into a resistant attitude to any progressive development of those
theories? Moreover, is the diverted legacy of the French thought still relevant
today in the American Academic? Or does the cultural influence come now from the
other side? Thinking of the recent French enthusiasm for American crime novels
and thrillers or the new French acknowledgement (under the influence of American
Post Colonial Studies) of the multicultural stakes in its own cultural history.
The
intellectual and cultural imbroglio between the two countries underlines the
ambivalence and the mobility of cross-cultural relationship, which can never be
limited to a unilateral or a dominating-dominated link.
We
invite you to write on these questions and suggest below a few related topics :
- Hiatus between
French and American novels of the last 50 years.
- The artistic
stage of the last 50 years.
- Decline of the
influence of the French Theory ?
- French
fascination for the marginalized America, legible in American
investigation novels (James Ellroy, Paul Auster, Rick Moody …)
- French and
American movies : beyond the simplistic antagonism
between Independant film (Cinéma d’auteur) and Hollywood.
Please send any
submissions to
editor@echopolyglot.com, with the following information
before February 28, 2006 :
