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Albert Camus in the 21st Century FAUX TITRE 308 Etudes de langue et littérature françaises publiées sous la direction de Keith Busby, M.J. Freeman, Sjef Houppermans et Paul Pelckmans Albert Camus in the 21st Century A Reassessment of his Thinking at the Dawn of the New Millennium Edited by Christine Margerrison, Mark Orme and Lissa Lincoln AMSTERDAM - NEW YORK, NY 2008 Maquette couverture / Cover design: Pier Post. The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of ‘ISO 9706: 1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence’. Le papier sur lequel le présent ouvrage est imprimé remplit les prescriptions de ‘ISO 9706: 1994, Information et documentation - Papier pour documents - Prescriptions pour la permanence’. ISBN: 978-90-420-2358-1 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008 Printed in The Netherlands Contents Abbreviations 9 Introduction 11 MARK ORME, CHRISTINE MARGERRISON 1: Réflexions sur l’(in)actualité de Camus 23 MAURICE WEYEMBERGH (FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS, BELGIUM) Colonialism 2: Negotiation or Confrontation? Camus, Memory and the Colonial Chronotope 45 PETER DUNWOODIE (GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) 3: Albert Camus lu par Assia Djebar, ou comment écrire “ensemble” l’histoire des pieds-noirs et des colonisés 61 MARIA TERESA PULEIO (UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA, ITALY) 4: Colonial / Postcolonial Hybridity in Le Premier Homme and Jean-Marie Tjibaou’s “First Man”, Kanaké 73 RAYLENE RAMSAY (UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND) 5: Sous le regard des hommes: “La Femme adultère” 87 CHRISTINE MARGERRISON (LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, UK) Ethics 6: Tongue-tied: What Camus’s Fiction Couldn’t Teach Us about Ethics and Politics 107 KEVIN NEWMARK (BOSTON COLLEGE, USA) 7: Hédonisme et éthique: un paradoxe camusien? 121 JØRN BOISEN (UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK) 6 Albert Camus in the Twenty-first Century 8: “Plus loin que la morale”: considérations sur la quête camusienne d’une éthique et d’un au-delà 131 GERALDINE F. MONTGOMERY (MASSACHUSETTS, USA) 9: Life-Worlds and the Problem of Subjectivity: A Comparison Between L’Étranger and Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country 143 TOBIAS CHEUNG (UNIVERSITY OF PARIS VII, FRANCE) 10: The Absurd in the Field of Genetic Diagnosis 157 ROUVEN PORZ, JACKIE LEACH SCULLY AND CHRISTOPH REHMANN-SUTTER (UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 11: Discours du juste ou juste un discours? Discours et jugement chez Albert Camus dans un âge de justification morale 169 LISSA LINCOLN (THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, FRANCE) Politics 12: L’actualité de Camus, demain. Contre “l’ensauvagement”: ré-humaniser l’homme 179 ANDRÉ ABBOU (UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, FRANCE) 13: Camus, Sénac, Roblès: les écrivains de l’École d’Alger face au terrorisme 189 GUY DUGAS (UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER) 14: Albert Camus and Political Violence 207 JOHN FOLEY (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY) 15: Camus, l’éternel contemporain 223 VIRGINIE LUPO (LYON, FRANCE) 16: Lire Camus au XXIe siècle: un journalisme visionnaire et éthique 235 ANNE TEULAT (VANNES, FRANCE) 17: Camus et les défis de la démocratie au XXIe siècle 245 MARK ORME (UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, UK) Contents 7 18: Tragedy and “Aesthetic Politics”: Re-thinking the Political beyond Nihilism in the Work of Albert Camus 259 SAMANTHA NOVELLO (EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE, ITALY) Bibliography 277 Index 287 Abbreviations The following abbreviations have been used in this book for works by Camus. Full publication details are to be found in the Bibliography. E Essais (1965 edition) TRN Théâtre, Récits, Nouvelles C1 Carnets I: mai 1935–février 1942 C2 Carnets II: janvier 1942–mars 1951 C3 Carnets III: mars 1951–décembre 1959 CAC 3 Fragments d’un combat: 1938–1940 CAC 4 “Caligula”: version de 1941, suivi de “La Poétique du premier ‘Caligula’ ” CAC 6 Albert Camus: éditorialiste à “L’Express” (mai 1955-février 1956) CAC 8 Camus à “Combat”: éditoriaux et articles d’Albert Camus 1944-1947 PH Le Premier Homme

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In the first decade of a new century, this collection of bilingual essays examines Camus's continuing popularity for a new generation of readers. In crucial respects, the world Camus knew has changed beyond all recognition: decolonization, the fall of the Iron Curtain, a new era of globalization and
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