Modern & Contemporary France

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)11
The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–19009
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography7
L’institution des revues dans le champ littéraire vietnamien francophone à l’époque coloniale6
Michel Tremblay: plays in Scots, vol. 15
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 19815
Bringing back gender and agency into the study of state-organised emigration from the French Caribbean5
Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War4
France since the Liberation: between exceptionalism and convergence4
Bernard Dadié and francophone African travel writing: rereading Un nègre à Paris4
Les Quarante-huitards et les autres. Dictionnaire des diregants de 18484
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan a political biography4
Des figures différenciées du « beauf » au cinéma : Franck Dubosc, Gérard Depardieu4
Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb3
L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique2
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 politics2
Inventing the natural contract2
Le rôle et l’engagement de la France dans la lutte contre les mouvements indépendantistes et d’opposition au Cameroun de 1945 à 1971: rapport de la Commission Franco-Camerounaise2
The French care economy: between gendered inequality and feminist idealism2
« Rien qui change la vie » : l’identité lesbienne et l’indifférence dans Play boy de Constance Debré2
Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards2
De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly2
Rage: affect and resistance in French and Francophone culture and thought, 1968–20202
Une relation de vie ou de mort2
The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989)2
Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon1
The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections1
Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile1
Signé Michel Serres : the fine print of The Natural Contract1
Marcel Proust aujourd’hui, revue annuelle bilingue/An Annual Bilingual Review, 181
Solid/taires: féminismes et sororités dans les productions artistiques françaises et francophones1
Le Piège africain de Macron1
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
Exil, déplacement : BUMIDOM hier, migrations économiques d’aujourd’hui ?1
Atlantic bound: writing Afro-Atlantic diasporic consciousness in the works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome1
Unearthing BUMIDOM: the state-organized migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France (1963-1982) as portrayed in recent audiovisual productions1
On flamboyance: refusal and worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir1
Developments in French Politics 61
Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors , by Todd W. Reeser, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature1
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible: a genealogy of radical critique in twenty-first-century France1
Gender in French banlieue cinema: intersectional perspectives1
Peyi an nou : elevating voices of the BUMIDOM through postmemory and counter-memory1
Genre et émancipation des femmes dans la fiction maghrébine contemporaine1
Colonialism devours itself: the waning of Françafrique0
The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres0
Sovereignty, Europe and republicanism: Euroscepticism at the time of the French referendum on the Treaty of Maastricht, 19920
‘Un livre ce n’est pas une claque’: an introduction to Constance Debré’s works0
Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity0
« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique0
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel0
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize0
France’s party system in 20220
Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond0
For a feminist reading of Julia Ducournau’s Grave0
Interventions 20200
The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations0
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–20220
Colonial chess pieces? Situating ‘Opération Hmong’ in French Guiana within the wider history and legacy of the BUMIDOM0
Writing in the ‘alterity industry’: self-reflexivity and satire in Francophone literature0
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century0
Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world0
‘Avec Vous?’ Islamophobia and the Macron presidency0
Revolution revisited: Emmanuel Macron and the limits of political change in France0
Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French0
Rancière’s counter-sociology: politics, history, education0
La Littérature stéthoscope0
Ah oui, je colle ma wig et j’arrive : a linguistic and contextual analysis of English lexical borrowing on Drag Race France (20
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French0
Les Manufactures de nos rêves: les studios de cinéma français des années 19300
Retrouver son corps : entretien avec Constance Debré0
Vers l’égalité, ou au-delà. Essai sur l’aube du socialisme0
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
La circulation des savoirs occidentaux au Sud-Vietnam postcolonial. Le cas de la Faculté des Lettres de Saigon0
The endings of empire: reading for the (colonial) plot0
Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape0
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 20220
« L’usine au milieu des fleurs » et les ouvriers du BUMIDOM : les recrutements de Chrysler à La Réunion (1970–1971)0
Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diw0
Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept0
France, you love it but leave it: the silent flight of French Muslims0
Rachid Bouchareb’s ethical cinema: Louisette and Annie, two women in the Algerian war of independence0
‘Je ne crois pas au monde victime-coupable’: an interview with Constance Debré0
Commissioning memorial reconciliation: the Stora Report and Algeria’s Ottoman cannon in France0
A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism0
L’Histoire dans la fiction : de l’anarchive à l’archive0
Réinventer la nature: pour une écopoétique des littératures de langue française0
‘They know I know everything’ My life in the eye of relationship between France and Africa0
Defiantly deviant: the mother who leaves in Love Me Tender (2020)0
Bottom-up democracy, blame and a republican monarch among the ‘déclassés’0
Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature0
L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency0
La conscience de Staline. Kojève et la philosophie russe0
Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert0
Clémentine ou la contraception : reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée0
Afroeuropean mobilities in francophone African crime fiction0
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés0
Herminie and Fanny Pereire, elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France0
Il était une fois… le Hirak au pays natal0
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
Zemmour contre l’histoire0
Time, corporeality and breath: Audrey Diwan’s cinematic aesthetics of abortion in L’événement / Happening (Audrey Diwan, 2021)0
Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and breaking the ‘glass ceiling’? The 2022 French presidential and parliamentary elections0
Reflections on the 2022 elections in France0
‘La tentation de tout plaquer’: or, the lure of sublimation in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France0
Defying normativity in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
BUMIDOM, WINDRUSH & BÓTPIPOL: a virtual curation of circular destinies in the Blackened Atlantic0
Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun0
La conversion de Constance Debré. Négativité queer et mysticisme0
Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory0
Françaises, féministes et musulmanes : l’identité impossible ?0
The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War0
The revolting French, 1787–18890
Looking back on a nation’s struggle: women’s reflections on the Algerian War of liberation0
En guerre contre l’autre : civilisation et altérité dans Le rivage des Syrtes de Julien Gracq0
An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility0
Between neo-liberalism and the nation: France’s political landscape in 20220
The paradox of laïcité diplomacy: genuinely advocating for ‘universal’ principles?0
What Ails France0
La loi contre le « séparatisme » : mort et résurrection d’une « justice d’exception »0
La Totalité littéraire. Théories et enjeux de la littérature mondiale0
Turkish–French relations: history, present and the future0
Serres’s reading of Tartuffe : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination0
Fantasies of power: sex, humour and complicities in French rap0
Barthes et le cinéma-vérité dans le film « La Lutte »0
Histoire, bande dessinée et positionnement éthique : présence et fonction narrative du personnage de Pétain dans La Balade nationale (2017) de Sylvain Venayre et Etienne0
Regional dress between tradition and modernity0
Living as writing as living: queer praxis in Constance Debré’s autofictions0
The weight of the world0
Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–20170
Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?0
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia0
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia0
Drawing (in) the feminine: bande dessinée and women0
Fictions of race in contemporary French literature: French writers, White writing0
The Routledge handbook of the history of Paris since 17890
Se sentir moins seule grâce au Manifeste conspirationniste … mais pour aller où ?0
Correction0
Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature0
A short history of the French Revolution , 8th ed.0
Fertile expectations: the politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France0
Urban bridges, global capitals: trans-Mediterranean Francosphères0
The Stora Report0
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 680
Revolution, melancholy and the limits of constituent power: François Cusset’s À l’abri du déclin du monde (2012)0
Punk rock théorie: Despentes et la destruction de l’identité0
Working through maternal ambivalence: the wake-up call of Chanson douce0
‘Si je t’étranglais ?’ De la masculinité blessée au fantasme de féminicide chez Roland Dorgelès0
Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–19400
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty0
À l’écoute de la guerre : sonorités, affect et violence dans 14 de Jean Echenoz0
‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous0
Monet, Tchaikovsky, Zola and the world they made0
‘L’esprit de défense’: separatism, counterinsurgency and the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France0
Fighting misogynoir on social media: Rokhaya Diallo’s battle against Pascal Bruckner on Twitter/X0
À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–19370
Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature0
The impact of gender on votes for the populist radical rights: Marine Le Pen vs. Eric Zemmour0
From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’0
Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain0
Graphic narratives of resistance: advocating for representation and social justice in French-language bandes dessinées0
Interrogating the palimpsest: depictions of enslavement and BUMIDOM in Fabienne Kanor’s D’eaux douces0
Paris isn’t dead yet: surviving gentrification in the city of light0
Récital 19610
How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory0
Michel Serres’s Le parasite : the noise of the world at work0
Le Corps d’exception. Les artifices du pouvoir colonial et la destruction de la vie0
Colonialism devours itself: the waning of Françafrique0
Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association0
Francophone Oceania today: literature, visual arts, music and cinema0
Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons0
La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma0
Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition0
Precarity as a mode of being-in-the-world in Michel Houellebecq’s Possibilité d’une Île0
Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ Pater dolorosa0
Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence0
L’élection interdite: itinéraire de Joséphine Pencalet, ouvrière bretonne (1886–1972)0
Twenty-first-century symbolism, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé0
Negotiating Breton Celtic identity on and off the pitch: contemporary football in Brittany0
The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire0
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation0
WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-190
Confronting the politics of denial0
Civilian-led counterterrorism and the carceral state in contemporary French film0
Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing0
Photo-texts from below: collectivist dispatches from the 21st-century French margins0
Contrôle des corps menstrués des gymnastes françaises en gymnastique rythmique depuis les années 19700
To Love is to Act: ‘Les Misérables’ and Victor Hugo’s vision for leading lives of conscience0
Les temps nouveaux: En finir avec la nostalgie des Trente Glorieuses0
When the revolution did not look like you thought it would: the Yellow Vest Movement through radical-left activists’ imaginaries0
Un sang d’encre : Du corps en littérature contemporaine0
Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France , by Sean Quinlan, Ithaca, Co0
On both sides of the tracks: social mobility in contemporary French literature0
Feminism’s empire0
The art of directing: a concise dictionary of France’s film directors0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies0
Wither the French left?0
Constance Debré et l’a-maternité : habiter un corps impossible0
Reading drama in eighteenth-century France0
Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan0
Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma0
The resilience of the CFA franc: a literature review0
Correspondance croisée: 1869–1873: Maurice Bouchor, Félix Bourget, Paul Bourget, Georges Hérelle and Adrien Juvigny0
Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works0
Welcoming space(s): uprooting French hospitality in the work of Iván Argote0
The private and political heritage of the Algerian War among French youth0
Made in France: societal structures and political work Made in France: societal structures and political work , by A. Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé0
Soukaz in space: visuality, protest and appropriation in the films of Lionel Soukaz0
L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels0
Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice , by Olga Smith, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven 0
Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics , by Elizabeth Benjamin, Bristol, Peter Lan0
Le Grand Débat: the return of the return engagement0
Princesses, Tomboy s and ‘gender theory’: film, family and school as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars of twenty-first-century France0
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