Transatlantica, 1 | 2011, « Senses of the South / Référendums Populaires » [En Ligne], Mis En Ligne Le 20 Décembre 2011, Consulté Le 29 Avril 2021

Transatlantica Revue d’études américaines. American Studies Journal 1 | 2011 Senses of the South / Référendums populaires Édition électronique URL : http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5221 DOI : 10.4000/transatlantica.5221 ISSN : 1765-2766 Éditeur AFEA Référence électronique Transatlantica, 1 | 2011, « Senses of the South / Référendums populaires » [En ligne], mis en ligne le 20 décembre 2011, consulté le 29 avril 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5221 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.5221 Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 29 avril 2021. Transatlantica – Revue d'études américaines est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modiﬁcation 4.0 International. 1 SOMMAIRE Senses of the South Dossier dirigé par Géraldine Chouard et Jacques Pothier Senses of the South Géraldine Chouard et Jacques Pothier The Gastrodynamics of Edna Pontellier’s liberation. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis “Key to the highway”: blues records and the great migration Louis Mazzari Eudora Welty: Sensing the Particular, Revealing the Universal in Her Southern World Pearl McHaney Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen Taïna Tuhkunen “Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack Owen Robinson Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris Suzanne W. Jones Référendums populaires Dossier dirigé par Donna Kesselman Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy Donna Kesselman Ballot initiatives and the national debate on immigration Mario Menéndez Issue-Choice, Messaging, and Organizing: A Sociological Approach to Three Ballot Measures in Colorado in 2006 Guillaume Marche Débat étatsunien sur les statistiques ethno-raciales : l’exemple de la Proposition 54 en Californie Olivier Richomme Hors-thème Le monument naturel dans le mythe de l’Ouest chez Washington Irving, Mark Twain et Walt Whitman Delphine Louis-Dimitrov Transatlantica, 1 | 2011 2 Reconnaissances An Interview with Steven Millhauser Étienne Février Learning Curve With an Introduction by Françoise Palleau-Papin Mary Caponegro Varia Le paysage dans la photographie contemporaine et dans la collection Lamarche-Vadel Au Musée Nicéphore Niépce du 12 février au 15 mai 2011 Eliane de Larminat Exposition Mitch Epstein : American Power Du 4 mai au 24 juillet 2011, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson Géraldine Fasentieux Mitch Epstein, « American Power» Exposition à la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson du 4 mai 2011 au 24 juillet 2011 Hélène Béade 30 ans de photographie au New York Times Magazine Rencontres d’Arles, été 2011 Anne Lesme A New York artist’s response to 9/11: Ahron Weiner’s “Cycles of Violence” Géraldine Fasentieux Exposition Lewis W. Hine : Entretien avec Agnès Sire, Directrice de la Fondation Cartier- Bresson, le 13 octobre 2011 À la Fondation Cartier-Bresson (en partenariat avec la Terra Foundation for American Art), 7 septembre au 18 décembre 2011 Frédéric Perrier Diane Arbus Au Jeu de Paume, du 18 octobre 2011 au 5 février 2012 (en collaboration avec The Estate of Diane Arbus LLC, New York, et avec la participation du Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, du Fotomuseum Winterthur et du Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam). Anita Béquié Chester Higgins, New York City, a Young Moslem Woman in Brooklyn, 1990 Fatma Zrann Actualité de la recherche “Looking Back: The Past, History and History Writing in Early America and the Atlantic World”, Third EEASA Biannual Conference University Paris-Diderot, Institut Charles V, 9-11 December 2010 Yohanna Alimi “Imagined Communities, Recuperated Homelands. Rethinking American and Canadian Minority and Exilic Writing” University of Strasbourg, 11-12 March 2011 Soﬁe De Smyter Transatlantica, 1 | 2011 3 « London-New York : Exchanges and Cross-Cultural Influences in the Arts and Literature » Colloque international, Université Nancy 2, 1-2 avril 2011 Marie Guély-Varcin Un empire comanche ? E.H.E.S.S., 20 juin 2011 Thomas Grillot Comptes rendus Hélène Quanquin, Christine Lorre-Johnston et Sandrine Ferré-Rode, Comment comparer le Canada avec les États-Unis aujourd’hui : Enjeux et pratiques, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009 Laurence Cros Elliot Liebow, Tally’s Corner : Les Noirs du coin de la rue, traduction et préface de Célia Bense Ferreira Alves, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Collection « Le sens social », 2010 Catherine Pouzoulet Claudette Fillard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Naissance du féminisme américain à Seneca Falls, Lyon, ENS Editions, 2009Lori D. Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, New York, Hill and Wang, 2009 Hélène Quanquin Glenda Carpio & Werner Sollors, eds., African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges. Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 55, n°4, 2010 Ada Savin Michael Almereyda, Lloyd Fonvielle, Greil Marcus, Kristine McKenna, Amy Taubin, William Eggleston. For Now, Santa Fe, Twin Palm Publishers, 2010 Nathalie Boulouch Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, De l’esclave au Président. Discours sur les familles noires aux États-Unis, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2010 Guillaume Marche Transatlantica, 1 | 2011 4 Senses of the South Dossier dirigé par Géraldine Chouard et Jacques Pothier Transatlantica, 1 | 2011 5 Senses of the South Géraldine Chouard et Jacques Pothier Tell about the South. What it’s like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. (Absalom, Absalom!, 142) 1 Exiled in the Massachusetts winter, Southerner Quentin Compson finds himself repeatedly assaulted by the uncomprehending inquisitiveness of his fellow students. As his roommate, a Canadian, collaborates with him telling fact from legend about the larger than life legendary figure of Thomas Sutpen, he tries to get a sense of the region: What is it? Something you live and breathe in like air? A kind of vacuum filled with wraithlike and indomitable anger and pride and glory at and in happenings that occurred and ceased fifty years ago? (Absalom, Absalom!, 289) 2 Over twenty years ago, in “William Faulkner: à vue de nez”, Paul Carmignani focused on the sense of smell in Faulkner by emphasizing that while due attention had been paid to the senses of gazing and hearing, the other three senses deserved as much attention. 3 Countless attempts have been made to make sense of Southern Identity, or The Mind of the South, to use Wilbur Cash’s title. As 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the outset of the Civil War, scholars are still wrestling to define the American South, still “telling about the South.” A more sensual approach to the issue of race relations at the heart of the Southern contradiction has been tried in this century, with groundbreaking studies such as Patricia Yaeger’s Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930-1990 or Mark M. Smith’s How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, an awareness that now finds its expression in mainstream fiction, as the runaway success of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, a novel haunted by the sensory exclusion of black women who remain at the same time the most accomplished standard bearers of Southern cuisine. No stronger example could be found of the fascinating reversibility of the most repulsive and the most delicious. 4 In The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin focuses on the sense of taste and uses foodways to define and transgress the social and cultural boundaries of acceptable female behavior as well as to reinscribe woman’s identity through the culinary dimension of her heroine’s life. In “The Gastrodynamics of Edna Pontellier’s liberation,” Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis analyses how the liberating exposure to the Creole culture allows Transatlantica, 1 | 2011 6 Edna Pontellier to assert her agency through culinary practices and how, in general, her journey to self-knowledge is framed through food experiences. 5 Another type of displacement, geographic this time, is analysed simultaneously with hearing in Louis Mazzari’s article, “Key to the highway: blues records and the great migration,” which looks at the way the Delta blues was a musical travel narrative for tens of thousands of people who were leaving the rural South for an unknown, modern and industrial future. His paper explores blues music as an expression of the fluidity of African American society and culture during the Great Depression. 6 Examining how Eudora Welty’s observations lead to her senses of smell, touch, and sound in the stories “June Recital” and “Moon Lake” and “The Demonstrators,” selected letters and her comments on her photographs, mostly taken in the 1930s, Pearl McHaney argues in “Eudora Welty: Sensing the Particular, Revealing the Universal in Her Southern World” that Welty pictures the invisible by her use of the senses, creating a sense of the South that is simultaneously particular and universal. 7 In “Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen”, Taïna Tuhkunen looks at how the southern states are depicted in film adaptations of five plays by Mississippi-born playwright Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1951 & 1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) and The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964). Referring to the idea of the pastoral garden developed by Leo Marx in The Machine in the Garden (1964), her article highlights Williams’ irreverent representation of the paradigmatic southern garden and takes a close look at the way the 20th century cinema sought to recreate it as a corrupt place. 8 Similar to the tragedy and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the yellow fever outbreaks which devastated New Orleans during the 19th century were also due, in part, to the city’s geographical location and the politics of interested parties. In “‘Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun’: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the Sense(s) of Death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack”, Owen Robinson focuses on the novel Yellow Jack by Josh Russell (1999), which paints a complex portrait of this city, its epidemics and its contradictory stories.

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