Stand Up and Split. Desiring Desertion in Jean Giono and Emmanuelle Lambert
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Stand Up and Split. Desiring Desertion in Jean Giono and Emmanuelle Lambert.pdf
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Author(s)
Perreau, Bruno
Date Issued
October 19, 2024
Journal
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
Perreau, B. (2024). Stand Up and Split. Desiring Desertion in Jean Giono and Emmanuelle Lambert. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 28(5), 785–794.
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Abstract
To face the powers that be, contemporary French writer Virginie Despentes proposes a straightforward solution: “stand up and split!” But where to go and with whom? How do we stop the proliferation of contested norms if we clear the decks? In a context of ecological crisis, desiring desertion is not rare even if we have only one world to inhabit. This article analyzes the desire to desert from two texts: Le Déserteur et autres récits (Citation1966 [1973]) by Jean Giono and La Désertion (Citation2018a) by Emmanuelle Lambert. It demonstrates that desertion does not make a clean sweep of the past but rather accepts the desert at the heart of existence. That is, both presence and disappearance.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2024.2427480
