Jennifer Yee
@jenwhy.bsky.social
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
This account of Tintin au Congo doesn't so much ask the simple question 'was it racist?' (answer: yes) as situate that racism in the more general context of Hergé's Nazi sympathies. #Frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
"Tintin au Congo" : histoire d’un vestige
Aujourd’hui dans Affaires Sensibles, Tintin au Congo : histoire d’un vestige.
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On Annie Ernaux's book Les Années (The Years) as a political fiction - not how I had thought of it before, but perhaps an approach that might reconcile me to l'écriture plate. www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...
The Great Political Fictions: The Years
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Interesting analysis of Laurent Binet's novel HHhH as an exploration of evil and resistance only possible in fiction. I thought that was meant as a criticism at first. www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...
The Great Political Fictions: HHhH
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Surrealism, from André Breton's revolutionary manifesto onwards: reactions against war, against colonialism, against almost everything - but not necessarily against all rationality. Series of 5 short #frenchpodcast s. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Première génération, André Breton ! : épisode 1/5 du podcast Le surréalisme est-il révolutionnaire ? | France Inter
AUDIO Le surréalisme est-il révolutionnaire ?, épisode 1/5 : Première génération, André Breton !. Une série inédite proposée par France Inter. Écoutez Première génération, André Breton !, et découvrez...
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This is a fun discussion of the context of The Picture of Dorian Gray, its style ('lush') and dangerously obvious gay content. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/o...
Oscar Wilde's Downfall: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Podcast Episode · The Book Club · 8 June · 1hr 22min
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'Rigolboche' was the stage name of a 2nd Empire dancer from the beginnings of the infamous cancan. One can almost hear her voice, but only via a memoir in fact written by a man under her name. #frenchpodcast in a series on the voices of the invisible. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Marguerite Badel, alias Rigolboche, danseuse de cancan sous le Second Empire : épisode du podcast La Voix des invisibles | France Culture
AUDIO La Voix des invisibles, épisode : Marguerite Badel, alias Rigolboche, danseuse de cancan sous le Second Empire. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Marguerite Badel, alias Ri...
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The plague struck Paris in... 1920. A dramatic #frenchpodcast with rag-and-bone pickers, rodents, state cover-ups and, inevitably, antisemitism 1920s-style. #FrHistory www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
1920, la dernière peste de Paris
Aujourd'hui dans Affaires sensibles, 1920, la dernière peste de Paris
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Really interesting exhibition on Hawaii at the British Museum. Many extraordinary things - gods, capes, crested helmets - made with feathers and plant fibre, an art that is still alive and evolving today.
A selection of ‘livres d’artiste’ from a temporary exhibition at the Taylorian.
A discussion of French attitudes to travel in the 19thC that begins with Baudelaire and ends with Rimbaud, but covers a great deal of mileage in between, with the always excellent Sylvain Venayre. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
XIXe siècle : le voyage et les rêves
Au XIXᵉ siècle, le voyage nourrit un imaginaire puissant, porté par le romantisme et par une littérature qui accompagne la naissance du tourisme et éclaire encore nos façons de voyager. Sylvain Venayr...
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‘Kneel’, by Dorothy Cross, from the marvelous sculpture trail in Worcester College gardens.
18thC Paris was fascinated by two sisters, exoticised as 'Lappons', who were actually members of the Finnish Protestant bourgeoisie. Comment peut-on être lapon? In Voltaire's hands they became a running joke aimed at Maupertuis. #Frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Kristina et Élisabeth Planström, sœurs
AUDIO La Voix des invisibles, épisode : Kristina et Élisabeth Planström, sœurs
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On how Mme de Sévigné narrowly escaped the convent as an infant, eventually becoming a witty widow and letter-writer extraordinaire, and would not have called herself a 'précieuse', or 'ridicule'; a #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Sévigné, une précieuse pas ridicule dans un siècle galant : épisode du podcast Madame de Sévigné et les femmes du Grand Siècle | France Culture
AUDIO Madame de Sévigné et les femmes du Grand Siècle, épisode : Sévigné, une précieuse pas ridicule dans un siècle galant. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Sévigné, une précieu...
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On Michel Houellebecq's most recent volume of poetry, sub-Baudelairean depression put in jingoistic rhymes and full of ambiguously-worded references to the end times and the need to massacre 'apes', a short #frenchpodcast 😱. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Critique poésie :
Quatre ans après son volumineux roman
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Podcast (in English!) on Christine de Pizan, perhaps the first female writer to make a living from her pen, and her active participation in contemporary debates on whether women were to blame for everything and needed to be kept safely in their places. #FrHistory podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Christine de Pizan: Pioneering French Feminist
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 1 May · 56min
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Was the legal concept of 'pure blood' invented in 1449 in Toledo, taking religious identity one step (or possibly several generations) further? #frenchpodcast in a series on the history of racism. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Comment le monde ibérique a-t-il inventé la
AUDIO Racisme, une histoire, épisode : Comment le monde ibérique a-t-il inventé la
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Je sommes des autres? All writers project an alternate self, but some definitely engage in more imposture/posturing than others. #frenchpodcast with Marie-Ève Thérenty and Pierre Bayard. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Postures et impostures de l'écrivain : épisode du podcast Impostures et mystifications | France Culture
AUDIO Impostures et mystifications, épisode : Postures et impostures de l'écrivain. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Postures et impostures de l'écrivain, et découvrez nos podca...
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Zoonation performing a hip-hop Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at Oxford’s new Centre for the Humanities.
Is it possible to simplify French spelling, which sometimes appears mainly designed to create problems? On some (failed) attempts to do so, an interesting if frustrating #frenchpodcast, broadcast most appropriately on April Fool's day. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Simplifier l’orthographe ? Mission impossible !
Aujourd'hui dans Affaires Sensibles, simplifier l’orthographe ? Mission impossible !
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I read two of these Wikipedia AI detection test articles and guessed both correctly, somewhat to my amazement - but it is a very disconcerting exercise. In the current climate I must say I cherish Wikipedia.
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4mo agoi have followed the evolution of the wikipedia AI detection guide with interest and regret to say that i still bombed their quiz. i think there are grounds for quite extensive pessimism about how this is going to play out in both teaching and research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
On the Commune de Paris as a civil war reflecting France's (ongoing?) social, economic and geographical fault lines: Michel Winock discusses the topic of his latest book in this #frenchpodcast. shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...
La Commune de Paris : la guerre civile des Français, avec Michel Winock | Storiavoce
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I'm delighted that my latest article, on French colonial novels, is published open access. First-cousin marriage, anxiety about racial purity, femmes fatales, unhappy endings... and Propp-inspired analysis of character and function. @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The endings of empire: reading for the (colonial) plot
What can the analysis of plot patterns in colonial fiction written in the expansionist period of modern French imperialism (1880–1920) tell us about the relationship between culture and empire? Fre...
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Is this really the oldest bookshop in the world ? The Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon.
The traditional spring tulip pilgrimage to the Botanic Gardens.
Within the Louvre there were once multiple smaller museums linked to France’s colonial past. On this and the origins of some other museums - Quai Branly and Guimet - a #frenchpodcast with Pierre Singaravélou www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Le Louvre : des racines plurielles
Avant de devenir l’institution à vocation universelle que l’on connaît, le Louvre fut composé de nombreux petits musées issus de l’expansion coloniale française. Pierre Singaravélou redonne vie à ces
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What are the different scenarios for massive societal collapse, how likely are they, and what does societal collapse actually mean for ordinary people? Four podcasts from @ppfideas.bsky.social with Luke Kemp, author of Goliath's Curse. www.ppfideas.com/episodes/whe...
Where Are We Going? Societal Collapse – The Future
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On the figure of the ‘jeune fille’ in fairy tales; it seems her awakening from sleep was once told as a paternal rape. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Le personnage de la
AUDIO L’âge c’est dans la tête, vraiment ?, épisode 1/4 : Le personnage de la
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