Race and the Aesthetic in French and Francophone Cultures
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 130845
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Roth and her co-editor Cecile Bishop initially conceived of this project as a working group at the MLA, bringing together leading French Studies scholars working on race. This collaboration then developed into the special issue. Roth had an equal part in the special issue’s conception, the selection of articles, the editing and revision process, and the writing of the introduction. The volume is the first sustained scholarly investigation in English into the relationship between race and literary and artistic aesthetics in the French-speaking world. In contrast to the historical and sociological approaches that dominate the study of race in French studies, the volume’s devotion to the role the aesthetic plays in the construction of race creates a new field. The introduction, written equally by Roth and Bishop, outlines the specific context for the study of race in France and lays out the major questions for scholars interested in bringing race and aesthetics together, including France’s unique history of universalism and secularism, in which the emancipation of Jews during the Revolution played a pivotal role. Roth’s own article explores how ‘invisible’ aesthetic experiences like smell intensify the production of Jews, France’s ultimate universal subjects, as a racialized group.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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