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Recent Scholarship in Beauvoir Studies

Existential Realism: Reading American Novels the French Way, by Kevin Spencer

1/5/2023

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Article published in Contemporary Literature, vol. 62, n°4, Winter 2021, p. 501-526.

In her travelogue America Day by Day (1947), Simone de Beau-voir recounts an argument over literature she had with Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Abel, William Phillips, and possibly Philip Rahv, key members of the New York Intellectuals. Since the mid-1930s, a handful of American novelists had been in vogue in France, prominent among them William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, and Richard Wright. Rahv had already complained in 1940 that “[t]he intellectual is the only character missing in the American novel, which contains everything except ideas” (414), and this seems to have been the central complaint as Beauvoir tells it.... read online.
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Articles lauréats du prix Patterson 2021/2021 Patterson Prize winning articles

11/24/2022

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To read about this, see the Simone de Beauvoir Studies section on this website.
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Pour en savoir plus sur le sujet, voir la section consacrée à la revue Simone de Beauvoir Studies ​sur notre site internet.

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Nouveau numéro de Simone de beauvoir Studies!

11/17/2022

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La revue de la Société vient de publier un nouveau numéro - un numéro spécial sur le thème des masculinités ! Plus d'informations ici.

Les membres de la Société internationale Simone de Beauvoir bénéficient d'un abonnement gratuit à la revue Simone de Beauvoir Studies. Un an d'adhésion équivaut à un abonnement à un volume de la revue (deux numéros). Si vous souhaitez renouveler votre adhésion, si vous n'avez pas encore reçu les numéros imprimés des volumes 30, 31 ou 32 que vous auriez dû recevoir, ou si vous avez des questions sur l'accès à votre abonnement numérique, veuillez contacter la secrétaire-trésorière de la Société, Meryl Altman (maltman@depauw.edu). Vous trouverez également des informations sur l'adhésion sur le site web de la Société : https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html

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NEW Issue of Simone de beauvoir studies!

11/17/2022

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The Society’s journal has just published a new issue – a special issue on the theme of masculinities! More here.

Members of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society receive free print and digital subscriptions to Simone de Beauvoir Studies. One year of membership equals a subscription to one volume of the journal (two issues). If you would like to renew your membership, have not yet received print issues from volumes 30, 31, or 32 that you should have received, or are have questions about accessing your digital subscription, please contact the Society’s secretary-treasurer, Meryl Altman (maltman@depauw.edu). Information about membership can also be found on the Society’s website: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html.
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Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film Phenomenology, by KellI Fuery

7/19/2022

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If you would like to purchase the book, there is a launch discount (50%) for a short while: FPLAUNCH50. Visit the editor's website.

From the editor: "Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of freedom well into the twenty-first century. In Ambiguous Cinema, Fuery examines Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity in relation to film experience, exploring both the legacies and limits of her existentialist ethics through a range of films by independent women filmmakers, including Joanna Hogg, Liliana Cavani, Debra Granik, Cheryl Dunye, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Lynne Ramsay and Céline Sciamma.
In doing so, Fuery deftly demonstrates the currency and relevancy of Beauvoir’s ideas to contemporary debates in film-philosophy and feminist thought by examining how these women filmmakers navigate turbulent themes such as moral choice, power, adolescence, love, trauma and motherhood. Reimagining Beauvoir’s idea of ambiguity within the context of film studies, Fuery asks that we confront and embrace difficult emotional situations so that we might realise an authentic, if indeterminate, freedom through our cinematic experiences."
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Old not Other, by K. Kirkpatrick and S. Kruks

6/20/2022

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We are pleased to share the new fascinating and necessary essay by two of our members, Kate Kirkpatrick and Sonia Kruks. 

"Old age is not exactly a time of life that most of us welcome, although globally speaking it is a privilege to reach it. In Western societies, the shocked realisation that we are growing old often fills us with alarm and even terror. As Simone de Beauvoir writes in her magisterial study of the topic, La vieillesse (1970) – translated in the UK as Old Age, and in the US as The Coming of Age (1972) – old age arouses a visceral aversion, often a ‘biological repugnance’. Many attempt to push it as far away as possible, denying that it will ever happen, even though we know it already dwells within us...." Read more on Aeon.


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Avec Simone de Beauvoir (Sens public 2021)

6/13/2022

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"La publication d’une partie des actes du forum Penser avec Simone de Beauvoir aujourd’hui, dans les Cahiers Sens Public,arrive à point nommé puisque, depuis 2018, nous sommes entré·es dans une dynamique de commémorations non seulement autour de Simone de Beauvoir (110 ans de sa naissance en 2018, 70 ans du Deuxième Sexe en 2019) mais aussi autour du MLF dont nous célébrons en 2020 les 50 ans. Les deux volumes que publient les Cahiers Sens Public, intitulés « Avec Simone de Beauvoir », ne doivent pas se lire seulement comme un nouvel hommage/femmage à la figure beauvoirienne mais plutôt comme une invitation à (re)penser l’articulation de deux champs : celui des études beauvoiriennes et celui des études sur la deuxième vague féministe." Par Marine Rouch. Lire la suite.
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Care, ethics, and paternalism: a beauvoirian approach

5/20/2022

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Just published by our member Deniz Durmuş! Read the article.
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Zaza, une jeune fille trop rangée

5/8/2022

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La figure de Zaza, surnom d’Élisabeth Lacoin, amie de cœur de Simone de Beauvoir, est essentielle dans le fil narratif et dramatique des Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée (1958) de Beauvoir. Son destin tragique est analysé ultérieurement par l’autrice de manière multiple, mais dans l’ouvrage de 1958 nous assistons à sa marche vers la mort, sans explications de la part de la narratrice, à savoir Beauvoir elle-même.

​Lire la suite
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"Alterity and Intersectionality: Reflections on Old Age in the Time of Covid-19", by Sonia Kruks

3/22/2022

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Sonia Kruks' article "Alterity and Intersectionality: Reflections on Old Age in the Time of Covid-19," has just been published in Hypatia. This is a very interesting piece! 
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