Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites

Volume 5, Issue 1

Travel and Travelers/Voyage et Voyageurs

Spring 2001

Guest Co-Editor: Georges van den Abbeele

Cover photo by Richard Lewis

Presentation/Interview/Selection
Mireille Calle-Gruber--Michel Butor: Portrat of a Writer Crossing Borders
Mireille Calle-Gruber--Réponses: Interview with Michel Butor
Michel Butor: Voyage en Montagne/The Voyage in the Mountains

Sites "On" Travels and Travelers
Emily Apter--CNN Creole: Trademark Literacy and Global Language Travel
Charles Forsdick--A quoi bon marcher: Uses of the Peripatetic in Contemporary Travel Literature in French
John Stout--Metapoetic Explorations of Tibet in Victor Segalen's Thibet and André Velter's Le Haut-Pays
Marc Blanchard--Site Unseen: Cuba on the Rue Jacob
Philip Met--From Australia to Africa: the Entre-deux of Self and Other in Daniel Leuwers' Travel Notebooks
Roger Célestin--An African in Greenland: The Limits of Tropical Tropes
Ellen Furlough--Vacations and Citizenship in Post-War France
Martine Gantrel--From Recreation to Recovery: The Idea of Travel in French Literature and Film (1960-2000)
Martine Guyot-Bender--Fiction at Twenty Thousand Leagues Above the Sea: Hemispheres' Fantasies of France
Roxana Verona--A Cosmopolitan Orientalism: Paul Morand Goes East

Sites "In" Travels and Travelers
Maryse Condé--The Voyager In, the Voyager Out
Eliane DalMolin--Les instants parisiens de Jacques Réda
Andrea Loselle--Revisiting Sigmaringen
Olivier Brossard--On the MIssoula Trail. Theory and Practice of the Voyage: An All Too Partial Account of the Franco-American Literary Conference Held in Missoula from February 4 to February 6, 2000

Questionnaire
J. Hillis Miller, Claude Imbert, James Clifford, Caren Kaplan, Peggy Kamuf, Verena Conley, Richard Terdiman, Frederic Jameson, and Dean MacCannell

Poetry
André Velter--Chaos Debout/Chaos Upright
Jean-Noël Chrisment--Volcans sur la mer/Volcanoes on the Sea