Round tables > Socio-poetics of the city in the Americas in the 21st century

Literature round table

Thursday 15 June from 11:15 to 13:15

Palais Hirsch, Grand Amphithéâtre

Organization: Paul-Henri Giraud (CECILLE - Université de Lille) and François Hugonnier (CIRPaLL - Université d’Angers)

Speakers: Raúl Caplan (ILCEA4 - Université Grenoble-Alpes), Aurore Clavier (CECILLE - Université de Lille), Salomé Dahan (IMAGER - Université Paris-Est Créteil), Anne-Laure Tissut (ERIAC - Université de Rouen Normandie), Aliette Ventéjoux (ECLLA - Université de Saint-Etienne) et François Weigel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)

Presentation

Socio-poetics is the interaction between litterary discourse and social or socio-economic discourse. In a more concrete sense, the term is defined by Alain Montandon as "a poetic in the etymological sense of the term, which takes into account the social representations as dynamic elements of litterary creation". In the lineage of Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre and David Harley, our round table will focus on the inclusion of urban space in the field of socio-poetics. It will aim at studying the relations between the city as a social discourse or sociolect (Barthes) and its litterary representations.

The objective of this round table is to set up a comparison between the different regions of the Americas in the first 20 years of the 21st century. An emphasis will be put on texts evoking protestations (demonstrations, marches, happenings...) during the different economic, political and social crises that have shaken the countries of the continent.

Realism, science-fiction, narrative journalism could be some of the esthetics valued, at the articulation between History and fiction, and through the diversity of litterary genres. The inputs of geocritics and of eco-critics will be welcome.