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    « Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple by Sébastien Liagre

    Published 2017-02-01
    “…This paper explores the quasi-obsessional use John Neal (1793-1876) makes of hair: the vibrating nealian hair is a neutral ground, a ground where the alchemy shaping Neal’s androgynous American is at work. This study offers a new perspective on the “Declaration of Independence, in the great Republic of Letters” proclaimed in the preface of Rachel Dyer (1828): following Neal’s wavy-haired protagonists, we come closer to the heart of his “Frontier-writing,” American, though underrated.…”
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    L’espace en poésie – poésie de l’espace : les Fireside Poets by Michel Barrucand

    Published 2006-06-01
    “…The discovery of American space and its impressive size is best expressed through poetical visions. …”
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    Espace urbain et gentrification aux États-Unis, évolution des interprétations by Laurence Gervais-Linon

    Published 2006-06-01
    “…Since the 1980’s, North American urban space has changed radically. Industrial neighborhoods that turned into slums then ghettos with the changing of the American economy and the post Second World War urban sprawl are today encountering "revitalization," "urban renewal" and "gentrification."…”
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    Justice pour les bêtes by Agathe Couvreur

    Published 2015-12-01
    “…Are they things or rather persons ? The American philosopher Martha Nussbaum believes that non-human animals are sensitive and vulnerable creatures who should now be entitled to a good life. …”
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    The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

    Published 2019-05-01
    “…The Sequoia Files: the tree of wonder: The cult of the Sierra Nevada giant sequoia, which lasted through the second half of the 19th century, reflected not only its significance as an emblem for American primitivist and nationalist discourse, but also the more popular taste for the marvelous in nature, widely associated with California after 1850. …”
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    Mission en temps de guerre : Alfred Métraux dans le Pilcomayo by Lorena I. Córdoba

    Published 2016-12-01
    “…The peculiar sociopolitical circumstances that encompassed Métraux’s fieldwork are detailed: the logistical problems due to the feeble economic situation of University of Tucumán, the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935), the inescapable relationship with the Anglican settlements of the South American Missionary Society and the tense situation on the national frontier between Argentina and Paraguay. …”
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    Les funérailles charognardes. Homicide, cannibalisme et sacrifice humain pour les Yurakaré (Amazonie bolivienne) by Vincent Hirtzel

    Published 2013-12-01
    “…In the indigenous societies of the South American Lowlands, the relationship between the homicidal warrior and his victim has been interpreted mainly as an expression of a « cannibalistic logic » of incorporation of the enemy’s point of view. …”
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    La crisis estructural del capitalismo y sus repercusiones by Francisco Luiz Corsi

    Published 2010-01-01
    “…The crisis calls into question the centrality of the North American economy, but that does not necessarily mean the shift of capitalism’s hegemonic center to Asia. …”
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    A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

    Published 2011-01-01
    “…The paratopic situation of the Latin American writer and the legitimating process are the starting point of this article, concentrated on the analysis of the novel Onze: uma história , by Bernardo Carvalho. …”
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    Robida’s Mormons by Daryl Lee

    Published 2019-05-01
    “…Nineteenth-century French observers fascinated with the American West appropriated cultural aspects of the region in a variety of ways. …”
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    The Islamic State" in the Context of Political Changes in the Middle East by A. A. Kuznetsov

    Published 2015-04-01
    “…It provoked repartition of the old frontiers existed since the Sykes-Pico treaty of 1916. …”
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