Modern & Contemporary France

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern & Contemporary France is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language7
The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)5
Empire and catastrophe: decolonization and environmental disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 19545
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography4
The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–19004
L’institution des revues dans le champ littéraire vietnamien francophone à l’époque coloniale4
Solliciter l’État en tant que migrant des départements d’outre-mer dans l’Hexagone : une analyse des requêtes de migrants des dom entre 1966 et 19813
Bringing back gender and agency into the study of state-organised emigration from the French Caribbean3
French military masculinities and the birth ofcinéma colonial: triangulating queer desire in Jacques Feyder’sL’Atlantide(1921)3
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan a political biography2
Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb2
Frontier poetry: new adventures in contemporary French horror cinema2
Revolutionary thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-18852
Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War2
Les Quarante-huitards et les autres. Dictionnaire des diregants de 18482
Sexuality, iconography, and fiction in French: queering the martyr1
Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–19391
Today sardines are not for sale1
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics1
L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique1
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature1
Le Piège africain de Macron1
Developments in French Politics 61
La Nation en récit1
De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly1
Inventing the natural contract1
From menstruation to the menopause: the female fertility cycle in contemporary women’s writing in French1
French London: a blended ethnography of a migrant city1
Derrida and the legacy of psychoanalysis1
Performing the pied-noir family: constructing narratives of settler memory and identity in literature and on-screen1
Serres’ textual parasitism and his search for a material language1
The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics , by Helena Duffy, Camb1
The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections1
Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards1
Une relation de vie ou de mort1
« Rien qui change la vie » : l’identité lesbienne et l’indifférence dans Play boy de Constance Debré1
The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989)1
Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors , by Todd W. Reeser, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021
Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon1
Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile1
Signé Michel Serres : the fine print of The Natural Contract1
La circulation des savoirs occidentaux au Sud-Vietnam postcolonial. Le cas de la Faculté des Lettres de Saigon0
The Routledge handbook of French politics and culture0
The impact of gender on votes for the populist radical rights: Marine Le Pen vs. Eric Zemmour0
Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-19600
Feminism’s empire0
Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing0
Constance Debré et l’a-maternité : habiter un corps impossible0
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize0
La loi contre le « séparatisme » : mort et résurrection d’une « justice d’exception »0
Theorizing HIV in the French context: perspectives from queer and transgender theory0
Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics , by Elizabeth Benjamin, Bristol, Peter Lan0
Rachid Bouchareb’s ethical cinema: Louisette and Annie, two women in the Algerian war of independence0
‘Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist retraditionalism in Sylvie Testud’sLa Vie d’une autre(2012)0
Paris and the parasite: noise, health, and politics in the media city Paris and the parasite: noise, health, and politics in the media city , by Macs Smith, Cambridge, M0
The resilience of the CFA franc: a literature review0
I suffer, therefore i am: engaging with empathy in contemporary French women’s writing0
La grande illusion; journal secret du Brexit0
Urban bridges, global capitals: trans-Mediterranean Francosphères0
Confronting the politics of denial0
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French0
Retroactivism and futurity in120 BPMandThéo et Hugo0
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia0
Albert Camus et l’indépendance algérienne : un dialogue différé avec les écrivains algériens (Assia Djebar ; Kamel Daoud)0
France, you love it but leave it: the silent flight of French Muslims0
The revolting French, 1787–18890
Regional dress between tradition and modernity0
The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations0
Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present0
L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency0
Zemmour contre l’histoire0
Se sentir moins seule grâce au Manifeste conspirationniste … mais pour aller où ?0
Le Personnel est politique: Médias, esthétique, et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan0
Made in France: societal structures and political work Made in France: societal structures and political work , by A. Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France0
Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé0
Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France0
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies0
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible: a genealogy of radical critique in twenty-first-century France0
A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism0
Stendhal0
Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diw0
L’Histoire dans la fiction : de l’anarchive à l’archive0
Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan0
Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity0
Making space for the dead: catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780–18300
France’s party system in 20220
À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–19370
Looking back on a nation’s struggle: women’s reflections on the Algerian War of liberation0
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés0
Correspondance croisée: 1869 1873: Maurice Bouchor, Félix Bourget, Paul Bourget, Georges Hérelle and Adrien Juvigny0
Représenter Hitler en première de couverture d’un texte de fiction: enjeux et contraintes paratextuelles, historiques et éthiques0
Twenty-first-century symbolism, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé0
Soukaz in space: visuality, protest and appropriation in the films of Lionel Soukaz0
Precarity as a mode of being-in-the-world in Michel Houellebecq’s Possibilité d’une Île0
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel0
Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence0
Monet, Tchaikovsky, Zola and the world they made0
Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition0
Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert0
Jean-François Vilar: theatres of crime0
Postcolonial realms of memory: sites and symbols in modern France0
‘They know I know everything’ My life in the eye of relationship between France and Africa0
Les Manufactures de nos rêves: les studios de cinéma français des années 19300
La conversion de Constance Debré. Négativité queer et mysticisme0
Il était une fois… le Hirak au pays natal0
Barthes et le cinéma-vérité dans le film « La Lutte »0
Louis-René des Forêts and inner autobiography0
Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France , by Sean Quinlan, Ithaca, Co0
Citron doux. L’Aînée0
Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ Pater dolorosa0
How the French learned to vote. A history of electoral practice in France0
Lou Koster. Komponieren in Luxemburg0
France’s wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa0
Wither the French left?0
Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape0
Queer, plastic residues: biological mutability and queer resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the work of Catherine Malabou0
Histoire, bande dessinée et positionnement éthique : présence et fonction narrative du personnage de Pétain dans La Balade nationale (2017) de Sylvain Venayre et Etienne0
Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and breaking the ‘glass ceiling’? The 2022 French presidential and parliamentary elections0
Vers l’égalité, ou au-delà. Essai sur l’aube du socialisme0
Bottom-up democracy, blame and a republican monarch among the ‘déclassés’0
Reimagining liberation: how black women transformed citizenship in the French empire0
Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French0
France0
Working through maternal ambivalence: the wake-up call of Chanson douce0
Entre fantasme et réalité: le phénomène de ‘l’exception radieuse’, ou le bonheur selon Houellebecq0
La mémoire des conflits dans la fiction française contemporaine0
Author’s response to reviews0
The private and political heritage of the Algerian War among French youth0
On both sides of the tracks: social mobility in contemporary French literature0
Colouring the claim: visual code and national allegiance in 120 Battements par minute (Robin Campillo, 2017)0
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation0
‘Si je t’étranglais ?’ De la masculinité blessée au fantasme de féminicide chez Roland Dorgelès0
Un sang d’encre : Du corps en littérature contemporaine0
Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France0
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 20220
Clémentine ou la contraception : reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée0
Paris isn’t dead yet: surviving gentrification in the city of light0
Robin Campillo’s120 BPM(2017) and contemporary France: assembling interdisciplinary perspectives0
« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique0
‘House is not universal. House is hyper-specific’: dance music sequences and affect in 120 BPM and Eden0
Paul & Virginie. Un exotisme enchanteur0
Slave revolt on screen, the Haitian revolution in film and video games0
Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life , by Eric Robertson, London, Reaktion, 2022, 328 pp., £25.00 (Hardback), ISBN 97817891452050
Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun0
The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War0
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty0
Réinventer la nature: pour une écopoétique des littératures de langue française0
The weight of the world0
Fishes with funny French names, the French restaurant in London from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century0
On ne parle pas franglais. La langue française face à l’anglais0
Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain0
Intermedial dialogues: the French new wave and the other arts0
For a feminist reading of Julia Ducournau’s Grave0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association0
WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-190
The reclining nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin0
‘Avec Vous?’ Islamophobia and the Macron presidency0
Reading drama in eighteenth-century France0
From the spectacle to the striptease: Beigbeder, Houellebecq and media ambivalence0
Introduction: decolonizing French food0
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century0
Beyond ‘la petite mort’ – sex and death in 120 BPM0
To Love is to Act: ‘Les Misérables’ and Victor Hugo’s vision for leading lives of conscience0
Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory0
Serres’s reading of Tartuffe : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination0
Defying normativity in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
Souvenirs0
Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works0
Tragedy and Nation in the Age of Napoleon0
Writing in the ‘alterity industry’: self-reflexivity and satire in Francophone literature0
Princesses, Tomboy s and ‘gender theory’: film, family and school as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars of twenty-first-century France0
Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?0
What Ails France0
Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature0
Civilian-led counterterrorism and the carceral state in contemporary French film0
Paris in the dark: Going to the movies in the city of light, 1930-19500
Reflections on the 2022 elections in France0
Fictions of race in contemporary French literature: French writers, White writing0
The birth of solidarity: the history of the French welfare state0
Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma0
D’un roman plus que le nom: Édouard Louis’s Histoire de la violence, a reflexive, gay novel0
Tracing HIV/AIDS representation through science in 120 BPM0
L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels0
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia0
Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature0
The Stora Report0
Courtesan and Countess: The lost and found memoirs of the French Consul’s wife0
Defiantly deviant: the mother who leaves in Love Me Tender (2020)0
Réinscrire la convivialité: connectivités queer du culinaire chez Abdellah Taïa0
This party is political: the moving politics of the queer dancefloor in 120 BPM (2017)0
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 680
Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–20170
A history of fascism in France: from the First World War to the National Front0
‘He didn’t really talk about it’: the (re)construction and transmission of a Free French past0
Le Canada et l’impressionnisme. Nouveaux horizons 1880-19300
Zwischen Verklärung und Verführung: Die Frau in der französischen Plakatkunst des späten 19. Jahrhunderts0
Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice , by Olga Smith, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven 0
Lire Patrick Modiano0
How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory0
Turkish–French relations: history, present and the future0
Jeux de mots et créativité. Langue(s), discours et littérature0
The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres0
Paris in modern times: from the Old Régime to the present day0
The Caribbean in translation: remapping thresholds of dislocation0
Drawing (in) the feminine: bande dessinée and women0
Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond0
Perspectives on culture and politics in the French Antilles0
Récital 19610
Living as writing as living: queer praxis in Constance Debré’s autofictions0
‘L’esprit de défense’: separatism, counterinsurgency and the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France0
Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept0
La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma0
Françaises, féministes et musulmanes : l’identité impossible ?0
Les normes de prononciation du français. Une étude perceptive panfrancophone0
Herminie and Fanny Pereire, elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France0
Making sense of the ordinary through discursive practices: a French ‘socio-writing’ turn?0
Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–19400
Africa’s last colonial currency: the CFA Franc story0
Commissioning memorial reconciliation: the Stora Report and Algeria’s Ottoman cannon in France0
Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons0
Beyond Return: genre and cultural politics in contemporary French fiction0
Michel Serres’s Le parasite : the noise of the world at work0
Making waves: French feminisms and their legacies 1975-20150
Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme0
Between neo-liberalism and the nation: France’s political landscape in 20220
From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’0
An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility0
Interventions 20200
‘L’idée d’une coalition’: Derrida, Foucault, and the bumpy coalitions of ACT UP-Paris in Robin Campillo’s 120 Battements par minute (2017)0
Die Malerin Hélène de Beauvoir0
Le Grand Débat: the return of the return engagement0
Lesbian decadence: representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle France0
Curieuses histoires. Noms propres devenus communs. De Marcel à Poubelle, l’histoire de ces hommes dont le nom est entré dans la langue française0
Féminité hybride, féminité dansée : performances de genres et oralité dans Bande de Filles et Divines0
The Marais: The story of a quartier0
Fellow travellers: Communist trade unionism and industrial relations on the French railways, 1914–19390
Riposter à un crime d’Etat. Le rôle méconnu du PSU dans la mobilisation contre la répression de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961 à Paris0
The memory of colonialism in Britain and France: the sins of silence0
‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous0
Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world0
Unearthing BUMIDOM: the state-organized migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France (1963-1982) as portrayed in recent audiovisual productions0
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–20220
When the revolution did not look like you thought it would: the Yellow Vest Movement through radical-left activists’ imaginaries0
Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature0
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