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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Empire and catastrophe: decolonization and environmental disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 195410
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language7
The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)6
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography5
The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–19005
Michel Tremblay: plays in Scots, vol. 14
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 19814
Bringing back gender and agency into the study of state-organised emigration from the French Caribbean4
Frontier poetry: new adventures in contemporary French horror cinema3
Bernard Dadié and francophone African travel writing: rereading Un nègre à Paris3
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan a political biography3
L’institution des revues dans le champ littéraire vietnamien francophone à l’époque coloniale3
France since the Liberation: between exceptionalism and convergence2
Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb2
« Rien qui change la vie » : l’identité lesbienne et l’indifférence dans Play boy de Constance Debré2
Les Quarante-huitards et les autres. Dictionnaire des diregants de 18482
Des figures différenciées du « beauf » au cinéma : Franck Dubosc, Gérard Depardieu2
Une relation de vie ou de mort2
Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War2
Revolutionary thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-18852
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
Performing the pied-noir family: constructing narratives of settler memory and identity in literature and on-screen1
The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics , by Helena Duffy, Camb1
L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique1
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-Camerounaise1
Inventing the natural contract1
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature1
Serres’ textual parasitism and his search for a material language1
Developments in French Politics 61
Exil, déplacement : BUMIDOM hier, migrations économiques d’aujourd’hui ?1
French London: a blended ethnography of a migrant city1
The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989)1
From menstruation to the menopause: the female fertility cycle in contemporary women’s writing in French1
The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections1
Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon1
Le Piège africain de Macron1
Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors , by Todd W. Reeser, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021
The French care economy: between gendered inequality and feminist idealism1
De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly1
Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–19391
Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards1
Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile1
Les Manufactures de nos rêves: les studios de cinéma français des années 19300
Defying normativity in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 680
Paul & Virginie. Un exotisme enchanteur0
Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain0
Revolution, melancholy and the limits of constituent power: François Cusset’s À l’abri du déclin du monde (2012)0
Monet, Tchaikovsky, Zola and the world they made0
L’Histoire dans la fiction : de l’anarchive à l’archive0
An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility0
Interventions 20200
Correspondance croisée: 1869–1873: Maurice Bouchor, Félix Bourget, Paul Bourget, Georges Hérelle and Adrien Juvigny0
Fictions of race in contemporary French literature: French writers, White writing0
Living as writing as living: queer praxis in Constance Debré’s autofictions0
Bottom-up democracy, blame and a republican monarch among the ‘déclassés’0
Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works0
Jean-François Vilar: theatres of crime0
‘They know I know everything’ My life in the eye of relationship between France and Africa0
Queer, plastic residues: biological mutability and queer resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the work of Catherine Malabou0
Twenty-first-century symbolism, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé0
Confronting the politics of denial0
Beyond ‘la petite mort’ – sex and death in 120 BPM0
La Littérature stéthoscope0
La Nation en récit0
This party is political: the moving politics of the queer dancefloor in 120 BPM (2017)0
Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature0
Fantasies of power: sex, humour and complicities in French rap0
Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature0
Barthes et le cinéma-vérité dans le film « La Lutte »0
Genre et émancipation des femmes dans la fiction maghrébine contemporaine0
Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France , by Sean Quinlan, Ithaca, Co0
Réinventer la nature: pour une écopoétique des littératures de langue française0
‘Avec Vous?’ Islamophobia and the Macron presidency0
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
The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations0
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
Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics , by Elizabeth Benjamin, Bristol, Peter Lan0
Afroeuropean mobilities in francophone African crime fiction0
Ah oui, je colle ma wig et j’arrive : a linguistic and contextual analysis of English lexical borrowing on Drag Race France (2022)0
Francophone Oceania today: literature, visual arts, music and cinema0
Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature0
Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert0
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia0
Zemmour contre l’histoire0
Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing0
La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma0
Entre fantasme et réalité: le phénomène de ‘l’exception radieuse’, ou le bonheur selon Houellebecq0
Le Canada et l’impressionnisme. Nouveaux horizons 1880-19300
Robin Campillo’s120 BPM(2017) and contemporary France: assembling interdisciplinary perspectives0
A short history of the French Revolution , 8th ed.0
Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France0
La Totalité littéraire. Théories et enjeux de la littérature mondiale0
Peyi an nou : elevating voices of the BUMIDOM through postmemory and counter-memory0
Paris isn’t dead yet: surviving gentrification in the city of light0
Stendhal0
Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence0
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
Souvenirs0
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 20220
Paris in the dark: Going to the movies in the city of light, 1930-19500
Making space for the dead: catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780–18300
Serres’s reading of Tartuffe : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination0
Working through maternal ambivalence: the wake-up call of Chanson douce0
For a feminist reading of Julia Ducournau’s Grave0
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies0
Françaises, féministes et musulmanes : l’identité impossible ?0
Reading drama in eighteenth-century France0
Die Malerin Hélène de Beauvoir0
Le Grand Débat: the return of the return engagement0
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century0
The weight of the world0
Commissioning memorial reconciliation: the Stora Report and Algeria’s Ottoman cannon in France0
Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?0
Welcoming space(s): uprooting French hospitality in the work of Iván Argote0
The reclining nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin0
On both sides of the tracks: social mobility in contemporary French literature0
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia0
L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels0
The memory of colonialism in Britain and France: the sins of silence0
Perspectives on culture and politics in the French Antilles0
Precarity as a mode of being-in-the-world in Michel Houellebecq’s Possibilité d’une Île0
Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association0
When the revolution did not look like you thought it would: the Yellow Vest Movement through radical-left activists’ imaginaries0
Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diw0
How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory0
Soukaz in space: visuality, protest and appropriation in the films of Lionel Soukaz0
Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world0
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel0
Feminism’s empire0
‘Si je t’étranglais ?’ De la masculinité blessée au fantasme de féminicide chez Roland Dorgelès0
Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond0
Curieuses histoires. Noms propres devenus communs. De Marcel à Poubelle, l’histoire de ces hommes dont le nom est entré dans la langue française0
La loi contre le « séparatisme » : mort et résurrection d’une « justice d’exception »0
Marcel Proust aujourd’hui, revue annuelle bilingue/An Annual Bilingual Review, 180
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–20220
Wither the French left?0
On flamboyance: refusal and worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir0
La circulation des savoirs occidentaux au Sud-Vietnam postcolonial. Le cas de la Faculté des Lettres de Saigon0
France’s wars in Chad: military intervention and decolonization in Africa0
Fishes with funny French names, the French restaurant in London from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century0
Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-19600
The private and political heritage of the Algerian War among French youth0
The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire0
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible: a genealogy of radical critique in twenty-first-century France0
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize0
The resilience of the CFA franc: a literature review0
Theorizing HIV in the French context: perspectives from queer and transgender theory0
Reflections on the 2022 elections in France0
Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice , by Olga Smith, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven 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
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France0
Un sang d’encre : Du corps en littérature contemporaine0
Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France0
Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–20170
Postcolonial realms of memory: sites and symbols in modern France0
Regional dress between tradition and modernity0
Retroactivism and futurity in120 BPMandThéo et Hugo0
The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War0
L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency0
Making sense of the ordinary through discursive practices: a French ‘socio-writing’ turn?0
Drawing (in) the feminine: bande dessinée and women0
Unearthing BUMIDOM: the state-organized migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France (1963-1982) as portrayed in recent audiovisual productions0
Defiantly deviant: the mother who leaves in Love Me Tender (2020)0
Between neo-liberalism and the nation: France’s political landscape in 20220
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty0
BUMIDOM, WINDRUSH & BÓTPIPOL: a virtual curation of circular destinies in the Blackened Atlantic0
Correction0
Photo-texts from below: collectivist dispatches from the 21st-century French margins0
La mémoire des conflits dans la fiction française contemporaine0
Représenter Hitler en première de couverture d’un texte de fiction: enjeux et contraintes paratextuelles, historiques et éthiques0
Herminie and Fanny Pereire, elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France0
Looking back on a nation’s struggle: women’s reflections on the Algerian War of liberation0
Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan0
Se sentir moins seule grâce au Manifeste conspirationniste … mais pour aller où ?0
WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-190
Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and breaking the ‘glass ceiling’? The 2022 French presidential and parliamentary elections0
What Ails France0
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés0
Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun0
Fertile expectations: the politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France0
« L’usine au milieu des fleurs » et les ouvriers du BUMIDOM : les recrutements de Chrysler à La Réunion (1970–1971)0
Clémentine ou la contraception : reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée0
From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’0
Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept0
‘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
Constance Debré et l’a-maternité : habiter un corps impossible0
Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma0
‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous0
To Love is to Act: ‘Les Misérables’ and Victor Hugo’s vision for leading lives of conscience0
Interrogating the palimpsest: depictions of enslavement and BUMIDOM in Fabienne Kanor’s D’eaux douces0
Citron doux. L’Aînée0
La conversion de Constance Debré. Négativité queer et mysticisme0
The impact of gender on votes for the populist radical rights: Marine Le Pen vs. Eric Zemmour0
The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres0
Tracing HIV/AIDS representation through science in 120 BPM0
Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory0
Rachid Bouchareb’s ethical cinema: Louisette and Annie, two women in the Algerian war of independence0
Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ Pater dolorosa0
The revolting French, 1787–18890
Il était une fois… le Hirak au pays natal0
Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity0
Signé Michel Serres : the fine print of The Natural Contract0
Princesses, Tomboy s and ‘gender theory’: film, family and school as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars of twenty-first-century France0
Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French0
The paradox of laïcité diplomacy: genuinely advocating for ‘universal’ principles?0
Lou Koster. Komponieren in Luxemburg0
Vers l’égalité, ou au-delà. Essai sur l’aube du socialisme0
I suffer, therefore i am: engaging with empathy in contemporary French women’s writing0
Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape0
‘L’esprit de défense’: separatism, counterinsurgency and the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France0
Jeux de mots et créativité. Langue(s), discours et littérature0
Turkish–French relations: history, present and the future0
The Stora Report0
Zwischen Verklärung und Verführung: Die Frau in der französischen Plakatkunst des späten 19. Jahrhunderts0
Albert Camus et l’indépendance algérienne : un dialogue différé avec les écrivains algériens (Assia Djebar ; Kamel Daoud)0
On ne parle pas franglais. La langue française face à l’anglais0
Sovereignty, Europe and republicanism: Euroscepticism at the time of the French referendum on the Treaty of Maastricht, 19920
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French0
Les normes de prononciation du français. Une étude perceptive panfrancophone0
Récital 19610
The art of directing: a concise dictionary of France’s film directors0
The Caribbean in translation: remapping thresholds of dislocation0
Urban bridges, global capitals: trans-Mediterranean Francosphères0
Writing in the ‘alterity industry’: self-reflexivity and satire in Francophone literature0
Punk rock théorie: Despentes et la destruction de l’identité0
Civilian-led counterterrorism and the carceral state in contemporary French film0
Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons0
« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique0
France’s party system in 20220
France, you love it but leave it: the silent flight of French Muslims0
Louis-René des Forêts and inner autobiography0
Reimagining liberation: how black women transformed citizenship in the French empire0
Colonial chess pieces? Situating ‘Opération Hmong’ in French Guiana within the wider history and legacy of the BUMIDOM0
Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé0
Michel Serres’s Le parasite : the noise of the world at work0
A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism0
Made in France: societal structures and political work Made in France: societal structures and political work , by A. Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
La Conscience de Staline. Kojève et la philosophie russe RAMBERT Nicolas Gallimard, coll. « Bibliothèque des Idées », 2025, 224 pp, €20.00, ISBN 978-20730869830
From the spectacle to the striptease: Beigbeder, Houellebecq and media ambivalence0
À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–19370
Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition0
Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–19400
The birth of solidarity: the history of the French welfare state0
0.10432195663452