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Alternative Realities: Myths, Lies, Truths, and Half-Truths Alternative Realities: Myths, Lies, Truths, and Half-Truths LHJ 2018 Alternative Realities: Myths, Lies, Truths, and Half-Truths Truths, Lies, Alternative Realities: Myths, Alternative Realities: Myths, Lies, Truths, and Half-Truths LINCOLN U N I V E R S I T Y Fall 2018 | Volume 6 LHJ LHJ 6 Volume The Lincoln Humanities Journal The Lincoln Humanities Journal Abbes Maazaoui, Editor Fall 2018 Volume 6 LHJ The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 Alternative Realities Myths, Lies, Truths, and Half- Truths Abbes Maazaoui, Editor Annual publication of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved ISSN 2474-7726 Copyright © 2018 by Lincoln University The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 The Lincoln Humanities Journal (LHJ) The Lincoln Humanities Journal, ISSN 2474-7726 (print), ISSN 2474-7726 (online), is an interdisciplinary double blind peer-reviewed journal published once a year by Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. Its main objective is to promote interdisciplinary studies by providing an intellectual platform for international scholars to exchange ideas and perspectives. Each volume is focused on a pre-selected theme in the fields of arts, humanities, the social sciences, and contemporary culture. Preference is given to topics of general interest that lend themselves to an interdisciplinary approach. Manuscripts should conform to the MLA style. Submissions may be made by e-mail to the editor at [email protected]. The preferred language is English. The journal is published both online and in print, in November-December of each year. The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 Editor ABBES MAAZAOUI Lincoln University Editorial Board J. KENNETH VAN DOVER Fulbright Scholar ERIK LIDDELL Eastern Kentucky University KIRSTEN C. KUNKLE Scholar & Opera Singer HÉDI JAOUAD Skidmore College EZRA S. ENGLING Eastern Kentucky University JEAN LEVASSEUR Bishop’s University, Canada DAVID AMADIO Lincoln University The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ABBES MAAZAOUI, Editor 1 PART ONE. FACTS AND/OR FICTION 20 Conspiracy Theories, Storytelling and Forgers: Towards a Paradoxical Ethics of Truth in Contemporary European Fiction LOÏSE LELEVÉ Université Rennes 2 (univ-rennes), France 21 A Writer’s Avatar: Self-Fictionalization in James Frey's A Million Little Pieces OUASSILA KORICHI Ecole Normale Supérieure of Laghouat, Algeria 46 Mythe et vérité, vérité du mythe: Le problème de la forme de la vérité dans la discussion de Cassirer par Merleau-Ponty LAURENT BALAGUÉ Université Paris-Est, France 60 TWO: ARTS OF ILLUSION 75 Evolution of a Myth Live: the Poppy Project Example CAMILLE DUPLAA University Paris-Nanterre, France 76 Mythologie du féminisme et du socialisme accoquinés sur les écrans en République populaire de Chine: ྂⅭ௒⏝ RAYMOND DELAMBRE AIR architecture, Paris Paris XI, France 91 The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 Leurre littéraire et mensonge romanesque ABBES MAAZAOUI Lincoln University, Pennsylvania 109 PART THREE. WOMEN: MASTERS OF DECEIT? 124 Tue-moi, belle tentatrice! Femmes médiévales et femmes fatales dans la littérature moderne OLIVIER WICKY University of Lausanne, Switzerland 125 De la traîtresse à la sorcière: imaginaire et représentations de l’héroïne rusée condamnée au bûcher dans la littérature courtoise médiévale MARCO J. PROST University of Lausanne, Switzerland 142 PART FOUR: FINDING/DISGUISING THE TRUTH 163 Mining the Riches of Sylvia Plath’s Manuscripts: “Finisterre” as a Case Study IKRAM HILI University of Monastir, Tunisia 164 Men of Ice and Steel: Richard Kuklinski, Clark Kent, and the Fortress of Identity DAVID AMADIO Lincoln University, Pennsylvania 177 The Gaze: Deception and Revelation of Hidden Truth in Ferdinand Oyono’s Une vie de boy, and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie EïMMA CHEBINOU Florida State University, Florida 191 Réalité et transculturalité dans La Pharaone de Hédi Bouraoui SAMIRA ETOUIL Moulay Ismail University, Morocco 207 The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 PART FIVE: ALTERNATIVE ARTS FOR ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS 221 Alternative Realities in the Arts or the Impossible Proof of Aesthetic Perception BILIANA VASSILEVA University of Lille, France 222 Stand-up Comedy as an Alternative Theatre Reality in Nigeria EDWARD EGBO IMO University Of Port Harcourt, Nigeria 233 Crossing Over the come-no-go Divide: A Historical Discourse on Relations between the English-Speaking Regions of Cameroon, 1996- 2017 JULIUS BONGKOROG University of Yaounde I, Cameroon 250 ABSTRACTS 268 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 279 CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR 2019 285 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 287 PUBLICATIONS OF THE LINCOLN HUMANITIES JOURNAL 289 SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION 290 The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 1 Introduction ABBES MAAZAOUI Editor According to philosopher Lee McIntyre, we are living in a “post-truth” world, in which “alternatives facts”1 replace actual facts, and infotainment, wishful thinking and feelings have more weight than objective evidence. It was not surprising that in 2016, the Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the international word of the year “due to its prevalence in the context of that year’s Brexit referendum and media coverage of the U.S. presidential election” (“Post- truth politics”). In the post-truth era, observes Ralph Keyes “borders blur between truth and lies, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and non-fiction. Deceiving others becomes a challenge, a game, and ultimately a habit.” In a recent speech at a rally held at a north-side high school in Milwaukee, Barack Obama recognized this change: “Throughout human history, certainly throughout American history, politicians have exaggerated. But what we have not seen before in our recent public life is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying. Making stuff up” (Herndon n.pag.). In fact, according to Ralph Keyes, “In the post-truth era we don’t just have truth and lies, but a third category of ambiguous statements that are not exactly the truth but fall short of a lie. Enhanced truth it might be called. Neo-truth. Soft truth. Faux truth. Truth lite” (15). Furthermore, “deception has become commonplace at all levels of contemporary life” (5).2 1 The word is coined by Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump. 2 This rise in lying has been accompanied by an increase in “avoidance mechanisms” and euphemisms: “We no longer tell lies. Instead we The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 2 Labeling our epoch as a post-truth era would suggest that there had been, before now, a ‘truth era,’ a period in which truth was well defined, agreed-upon and universally embraced, but the concept of truth has never been free from endless discussions and debates in several disciplines and contexts, including philosophy, art, religion, politics, and science.3 The age-old questions–What does truth mean? and Is this true?–have for millennia occupied truth-seekers everywhere, not only within the sciences but also in everyday life.4 The past itself has not been immune to debates about the validity of its own facts: for some, the past is a cohesive repository of truths; for others, it is a contested period of conflicting memories and competing truth claims.5 Today is no different.6 In this introduction to the special issue on Alternatives Realities, I will briefly discuss the fragile nature of truth, the predominance of deceptive practices, the dialectics of truths and lies within the context of the self- deceived human brain, as well as ways to remedy the “trouble with reality” and truth, to use the title of a recent book by Brooke Gladstone. Knowing the Truth “Truth” is a neutral term, in that it distinguishes between the normal (unmarked) behavior and the supposedly less common variants such as untruths, lies, half-truths, and falsehoods. In everyday life, truth is a given; its lack is not. ‘misspeak.’ We ‘exaggerate.’ We ‘exercise poor judgment’ . .” (13). For a detailed list of similar colorful words, see Keyes (15-16). 3 Just to cite few recent books: A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini; Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World by James Ball; The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani; The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time by Brooke Gladstone. 4 About the reality of lying in everyday life, see Robert Feldman’s book The Liar in Your Life. 5 Cf. Maazaoui, The Arts of Memory, xii-xiv. 6 Keyes admits that “Even if more lies are being told today than ever, I don’t think there’s any greater human propensity to tell lies. What I do believe is that an age-old willingness to deceive others is being facilitated in new ways” (18). The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2018 | Volume 6 3 While it remains elusive, it shines by its absence: “Many human activities depend upon the concept [of truth], where its nature as a concept is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion” (Wikipedia, “Truth”). Richard Feynman writes of this paradox: “We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.”7 Dictionaries define the word “truth” as “that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality” (OED). This definition is problematic for many reasons.8 It is not just that a fact may be untrue, but that things are not always what they seem. To illustrate the multi-layered perception of the truth, two examples from world literature will be used. The first is “The Story of Abou Hassan, or the Sleeper Awakened” in The Arabian Nights. Abou Hassan is the victim of a practical joke by the caliph, Haroon al Rasheed. After being taken in his sleep to the palace, and being treated for one day as the caliph, he is taken back to his home the next evening after he falls asleep. Once awake, he struggles mentally and legally for weeks, for he does not know who he is or how to act: the sultan or just Abou Hassan.
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