J Dutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 107165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Dutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dutton |
| SIGNATURE | DUTTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6267-0673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Justine Feyereisen , Renouer avec la terre extatique: Essai de sensopoétique chez J.M.G. Le Clézio
Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions
Afrofuturism is a decolonizing movement that opens up pathways for expressing the future in imaginary and critical forms, grounded in African and Afrodiasporic aesthetics and worldviews. Like Indigenous Futurisms, defined by Anishinaabe scholar Grace Dillon as indigenized futures projected by Indigenous peoples living and writing in a “post-native Apocalypse,” Afrofuturism was theorized in detail and depth by African American creative-scholar Yta…
The Translingual Turn and French Literary Prize-winners: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (2021)
This article explores the complex relationship between the translingual turn and French literary prize-winners by focusing on a recent Goncourt laureate, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and his plurivocal poetics of translingualism in La plus secr ete m emoire des hommes (2021).Through an examination of the text and its contexts, intertexts and paratexts, it demonstrates how the author draws on past, present and future representations of translingual lives…
Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place
Terroir is an untranslatable, unstable, and often undefinable French term frequently used in the global wine industry. This article focuses on the transnational potentialities and cultural transferability of terroir in reflecting on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place. After outlining the evolution of terroir in France to demonstrate how and why it appears to have become a floating signifier, I examine the use of terroir i…
Rêver le vin: Les potentialités utopiques du terroir
Le vin et le terroir, tout comme l’utopie, sont des concepts ambigus, dynamiques, qui résistent aux définitions faciles ou fixes. Chacun revêt une signification différente selon le contexte, que ce soit lié aux traditions historiques, aux disciplines académiques, aux priorités socio-politiques, voire aux découvertes scientifiques. La richesse matérielle et sémiologique du vin, du terroir et de l’utopie fournit un champ propice à l’étude des prati…
Tout simplement noir: Simply Parody or Complex Paradox in France’s (Post)Racial Utopia
In July 2020, the comedy film Tout simplement noir by Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax was released at the height of “Black Lives Matter” marches around the world. This compelling text of the times can be interpreted either as a simple parody of identity politics discourses, black rights movements, and celebrity self-aggrandizement, or a complex paradox demonstrating the antinomic potentialities of the film exposing both racial and post-racial utopi…
Manger demain: Food Futures in French Fiction
France's national identity has long been inseparable from its culinary culture. From Taillevent's Le Viandier (c.1300) to Escoffier's Le Guide culinaire (1903), French treatises and texts led the way in establishing France's central role in codifying western food discourses. Against this backdrop of gastronomic glory, futuristic food fictions in French are few and far between, but they serve to reveal contemporary preoccupations and predictions r…
Autonomy and Community in Learning Languages Online: A Critical Autoethnography of Teaching and Learning in Covid-19 Confinement During 2020
During COVID-19 confinement in 2020, there has been a massive increase in learning languages online via a variety of apps, short courses, and as part of higher education on-campus degrees converted to online learning. This study argues that attention to the balance of autonomy and community is vital to successful language learning online. An initial exploration of recent scholarship on autonomy and community in learning languages online validates…
The Utopian Future of Food in Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: Rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771)
Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s novel L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771) was the first futuristic utopia—or “uchronia”—and its treatment of food reveals that alimentary concerns were important markers of both contemporary inequality and future harmony in pre-revolutionary France. This article examines the utopian future of food via three alimentary features of Mercier’s novel: food justice, food security and commensali…
Introduction. ‘La honte de la France’: Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions
Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions are widely recognised in media and criticism as contributing to his renown as an author today. The deeper significance of cultural transgressions in Houellebecq’s work is a rich seam for exploration, which was undertaken during a symposium on 29 September 2018. This article traces the conceptualisation of our approach and develops a framework for understanding transgression in the context of Houellebec…
Wine in Houellebecq: Cultural transgression or literary device
Michel Houellebecq has a reputation as a heavy drinker and many of his protagonists mirror this tendency. This article focuses specifically on wine, asking whether the consumption of wine, both in his writing and in representations of his life, constitutes a simple cultural transgression, mainly via the quantities imbibed, or whether in fact wine is used as a complex literary device, a symbolic marker of national identity, social status and inter…
Slicing Up the Utopian Pie
This article merges the intellectual concept of utopia and the material culture of the pie as a metaphor to explore the relative hegemony of Judeo-Christian (and/or Anglo-European) utopian literature and criticism. Citing Lyman Tower Sargent's contributions to opening up scholarship on comparative utopias, the author underscores his influence on her own thinking and publications on the topic. The study traces parallels between intellectual and ma…
Geographical Turns and Historical Returns in Narrating French Wine Culture
The narration of French wine culture in the twentieth century has been markedly influenced by the geographers Paul Vidal de la Blache, Roger Dion, and Jean-Robert Pitte. Their impact is notable in redefining terroir as not only a geological, climactic, and topographical phenomenon, but a space which is also dependent on human intervention and tradition, including social and economic infrastructure. In this article, I will trace the postwar constr…
Narrating Expiation in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean Aquapelago: The Islanding of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Islands are integral to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio's life and writing. Mauritius and the Indian Ocean aquapelago have a central importance in his work, as many scholarly studies confirm. Since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008, Le Clzio has foregrounded his Franco-Mauritian identity
Le Rêve tasmanien: Utopia at the end of the earth
Tasmania holds a special place in the French imaginary, as a symbol of radical otherness, due in no small part to its location far away from France, at the end of the earth. This essay traces the development of Tasmania as both a place of utopian desire and a site of dystopian suffering in the French imaginary, from its earliest associations with Terra Australis Incognita through the first explorers’ landings to today's interpretations of the isl…
World Literature in French, littérature-monde , and the Translingual Turn
World literature in French is not a new phenomenon. It has existed in practice since the Chanson de Roland and in theory since Goethe's Weltliteratur at least. 1 Over the last decade, however, more scholarly criticism has appeared on world literature in French than ever before. In recent times, it has become increasingly linked with translingualism, focusing on the choice of language for literary expression and its interplay with other linguistic…
Shadow zones: Dark Travel and Postcolonial Cultures
Travel has always reflected the lighter and darker sides of life, its myriad shades and colours, multiple nuances and intensities. Whether mobility is inspired by leisure, entertainment, or education; necessitated by hunger, thirst, reproduction, or escape; or demanded by political imperatives for conquest, expansion, and power, every journey carries with it the possibility of an engagement with shadow zones. Those who market travel, and those wh…
J.M.G. Le Clézio: A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village
Introduction: Utopias from Other Cultural Traditions
In his Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times Krishan Kumar argues that “so far as I have been able to establish, nothing like the western utopia and utopian traditions exist in any non-western or non-Christian culture” (1987, 424n4), and he reiterated that position in a keynote address given to the Utopian Studies Society of Europe at the University of Porto in 2010. Both of us have argued the opposite, Dutton in “‘Non-western’ Utopian Tradition…
Francophonie and its Futures: Utopian, Digital, Plurivocal
Traces of the ephemeral: Afromodern connections in the jazz and travel writings of Elisabeth Sauvy aka Titana
The adventurous life and work of Tita na, or Elisabeth Sauvy, is all but forgotten today, due in part to her condemnation as a collaborationist during World War II, but also because of the ephemeral nature of her journalistic prose. Her jazz and travel writings had, however, a significant role in the transmission of the new musical, literary, and art forms that were traversing the Atlantic, and her editorial activities allowed her to introduce ne…
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Cha…
‘Non-western’ utopian traditions
"In the red (dead) heart of Australia / Utopia is a place. / Though it bears a Western name / It is not a Western space. / But a sign that social dreaming / Can have a different face." / Utopia and utopianism are often perceived to be primarily western constructs - western dreams of a better world, an ideal existence or a fantastic future. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the definition, design and development of utopian literatures and t…
Imperial ice? The influence of Empire on contemporary French and British Antarctic travel writing
This paper proposes a comparative study of imperialism in recent travel narratives to Antarctic regions by the French political commentator Jean-Paul Kauffmann and the English literary critic Francis Spufford. In spite of the apparent homogeneity of these desolate and austere landscapes of ice and snow, it is evident that the ‘French’ ice of the Kerguelen Islands appeals to Kauffmann whereas the ‘British’ ice of the South Pole beckons to Spufford…
Francophonie and universality: The Ideological Challenges of Littrature-Monde
This article examines the ideological challenges to francophonie and universality initially raised in the Pour une littrature-monde en franais (2007) manifesto and elaborated further by the contributing authors to the accompanying volume of essays. The multiple perspectives and modes of expression that emanate from a wide range of writers constitute a cohesive unit defending a common cause equality and diversity in French language literatures. Ye…
Geographical Turns and Historical Returns in Narrating French Wine Culture
The narration of French wine culture in the twentieth century has been markedly influenced by the geographers Paul Vidal de la Blache, Roger Dion, and Jean-Robert Pitte. Their impact is notable in redefining terroir as not only a geological, climactic, and topographical phenomenon, but a space which is also dependent on human intervention and tradition, including social and economic infrastructure. In this article, I will trace the postwar constr…
Introduction. ‘La honte de la France’: Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions
Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions are widely recognised in media and criticism as contributing to his renown as an author today. The deeper significance of cultural transgressions in Houellebecq’s work is a rich seam for exploration, which was undertaken during a symposium on 29 September 2018. This article traces the conceptualisation of our approach and develops a framework for understanding transgression in the context of Houellebec…
Wine in Houellebecq: Cultural transgression or literary device
Michel Houellebecq has a reputation as a heavy drinker and many of his protagonists mirror this tendency. This article focuses specifically on wine, asking whether the consumption of wine, both in his writing and in representations of his life, constitutes a simple cultural transgression, mainly via the quantities imbibed, or whether in fact wine is used as a complex literary device, a symbolic marker of national identity, social status and inter…
World Literature in French, littérature-monde , and the Translingual Turn
World literature in French is not a new phenomenon. It has existed in practice since the Chanson de Roland and in theory since Goethe's Weltliteratur at least. 1 Over the last decade, however, more scholarly criticism has appeared on world literature in French than ever before. In recent times, it has become increasingly linked with translingualism, focusing on the choice of language for literary expression and its interplay with other linguistic…
Introduction: Utopias from Other Cultural Traditions
In his Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times Krishan Kumar argues that “so far as I have been able to establish, nothing like the western utopia and utopian traditions exist in any non-western or non-Christian culture” (1987, 424n4), and he reiterated that position in a keynote address given to the Utopian Studies Society of Europe at the University of Porto in 2010. Both of us have argued the opposite, Dutton in “‘Non-western’ Utopian Tradition…
The Translingual Turn and French Literary Prize-winners: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (2021)
This article explores the complex relationship between the translingual turn and French literary prize-winners by focusing on a recent Goncourt laureate, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and his plurivocal poetics of translingualism in La plus secr ete m emoire des hommes (2021).Through an examination of the text and its contexts, intertexts and paratexts, it demonstrates how the author draws on past, present and future representations of translingual lives…
The Utopian Future of Food in Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: Rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771)
Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s novel L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771) was the first futuristic utopia—or “uchronia”—and its treatment of food reveals that alimentary concerns were important markers of both contemporary inequality and future harmony in pre-revolutionary France. This article examines the utopian future of food via three alimentary features of Mercier’s novel: food justice, food security and commensali…
Shadow zones: Dark Travel and Postcolonial Cultures
Travel has always reflected the lighter and darker sides of life, its myriad shades and colours, multiple nuances and intensities. Whether mobility is inspired by leisure, entertainment, or education; necessitated by hunger, thirst, reproduction, or escape; or demanded by political imperatives for conquest, expansion, and power, every journey carries with it the possibility of an engagement with shadow zones. Those who market travel, and those wh…
Solving African Urban Problems
Imperial ice? The influence of Empire on contemporary French and British Antarctic travel writing
This paper proposes a comparative study of imperialism in recent travel narratives to Antarctic regions by the French political commentator Jean-Paul Kauffmann and the English literary critic Francis Spufford. In spite of the apparent homogeneity of these desolate and austere landscapes of ice and snow, it is evident that the ‘French’ ice of the Kerguelen Islands appeals to Kauffmann whereas the ‘British’ ice of the South Pole beckons to Spufford…
Francophonie and universality: The Ideological Challenges of Littrature-Monde
This article examines the ideological challenges to francophonie and universality initially raised in the Pour une littrature-monde en franais (2007) manifesto and elaborated further by the contributing authors to the accompanying volume of essays. The multiple perspectives and modes of expression that emanate from a wide range of writers constitute a cohesive unit defending a common cause equality and diversity in French language literatures. Ye…
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Cha…
‘Non-western’ utopian traditions
"In the red (dead) heart of Australia / Utopia is a place. / Though it bears a Western name / It is not a Western space. / But a sign that social dreaming / Can have a different face." / Utopia and utopianism are often perceived to be primarily western constructs - western dreams of a better world, an ideal existence or a fantastic future. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the definition, design and development of utopian literatures and t…
Francophonie and its Futures: Utopian, Digital, Plurivocal
Traces of the ephemeral: Afromodern connections in the jazz and travel writings of Elisabeth Sauvy aka Titana
The adventurous life and work of Tita na, or Elisabeth Sauvy, is all but forgotten today, due in part to her condemnation as a collaborationist during World War II, but also because of the ephemeral nature of her journalistic prose. Her jazz and travel writings had, however, a significant role in the transmission of the new musical, literary, and art forms that were traversing the Atlantic, and her editorial activities allowed her to introduce ne…
J.M.G. Le Clézio: A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village
Introduction: Utopias from Other Cultural Traditions
In his Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times Krishan Kumar argues that “so far as I have been able to establish, nothing like the western utopia and utopian traditions exist in any non-western or non-Christian culture” (1987, 424n4), and he reiterated that position in a keynote address given to the Utopian Studies Society of Europe at the University of Porto in 2010. Both of us have argued the opposite, Dutton in “‘Non-western’ Utopian Tradition…
Shadow zones: Dark Travel and Postcolonial Cultures
Travel has always reflected the lighter and darker sides of life, its myriad shades and colours, multiple nuances and intensities. Whether mobility is inspired by leisure, entertainment, or education; necessitated by hunger, thirst, reproduction, or escape; or demanded by political imperatives for conquest, expansion, and power, every journey carries with it the possibility of an engagement with shadow zones. Those who market travel, and those wh…
Le Rêve tasmanien: Utopia at the end of the earth
Tasmania holds a special place in the French imaginary, as a symbol of radical otherness, due in no small part to its location far away from France, at the end of the earth. This essay traces the development of Tasmania as both a place of utopian desire and a site of dystopian suffering in the French imaginary, from its earliest associations with Terra Australis Incognita through the first explorers’ landings to today's interpretations of the isl…
World Literature in French, littérature-monde , and the Translingual Turn
World literature in French is not a new phenomenon. It has existed in practice since the Chanson de Roland and in theory since Goethe's Weltliteratur at least. 1 Over the last decade, however, more scholarly criticism has appeared on world literature in French than ever before. In recent times, it has become increasingly linked with translingualism, focusing on the choice of language for literary expression and its interplay with other linguistic…
Narrating Expiation in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean Aquapelago: The Islanding of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Islands are integral to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio's life and writing. Mauritius and the Indian Ocean aquapelago have a central importance in his work, as many scholarly studies confirm. Since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008, Le Clzio has foregrounded his Franco-Mauritian identity
Geographical Turns and Historical Returns in Narrating French Wine Culture
The narration of French wine culture in the twentieth century has been markedly influenced by the geographers Paul Vidal de la Blache, Roger Dion, and Jean-Robert Pitte. Their impact is notable in redefining terroir as not only a geological, climactic, and topographical phenomenon, but a space which is also dependent on human intervention and tradition, including social and economic infrastructure. In this article, I will trace the postwar constr…
Introduction. ‘La honte de la France’: Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions
Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions are widely recognised in media and criticism as contributing to his renown as an author today. The deeper significance of cultural transgressions in Houellebecq’s work is a rich seam for exploration, which was undertaken during a symposium on 29 September 2018. This article traces the conceptualisation of our approach and develops a framework for understanding transgression in the context of Houellebec…
Wine in Houellebecq: Cultural transgression or literary device
Michel Houellebecq has a reputation as a heavy drinker and many of his protagonists mirror this tendency. This article focuses specifically on wine, asking whether the consumption of wine, both in his writing and in representations of his life, constitutes a simple cultural transgression, mainly via the quantities imbibed, or whether in fact wine is used as a complex literary device, a symbolic marker of national identity, social status and inter…
Slicing Up the Utopian Pie
This article merges the intellectual concept of utopia and the material culture of the pie as a metaphor to explore the relative hegemony of Judeo-Christian (and/or Anglo-European) utopian literature and criticism. Citing Lyman Tower Sargent's contributions to opening up scholarship on comparative utopias, the author underscores his influence on her own thinking and publications on the topic. The study traces parallels between intellectual and ma…
Autonomy and Community in Learning Languages Online: A Critical Autoethnography of Teaching and Learning in Covid-19 Confinement During 2020
During COVID-19 confinement in 2020, there has been a massive increase in learning languages online via a variety of apps, short courses, and as part of higher education on-campus degrees converted to online learning. This study argues that attention to the balance of autonomy and community is vital to successful language learning online. An initial exploration of recent scholarship on autonomy and community in learning languages online validates…
The Utopian Future of Food in Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: Rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771)
Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s novel L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771) was the first futuristic utopia—or “uchronia”—and its treatment of food reveals that alimentary concerns were important markers of both contemporary inequality and future harmony in pre-revolutionary France. This article examines the utopian future of food via three alimentary features of Mercier’s novel: food justice, food security and commensali…
Rêver le vin: Les potentialités utopiques du terroir
Le vin et le terroir, tout comme l’utopie, sont des concepts ambigus, dynamiques, qui résistent aux définitions faciles ou fixes. Chacun revêt une signification différente selon le contexte, que ce soit lié aux traditions historiques, aux disciplines académiques, aux priorités socio-politiques, voire aux découvertes scientifiques. La richesse matérielle et sémiologique du vin, du terroir et de l’utopie fournit un champ propice à l’étude des prati…
Tout simplement noir: Simply Parody or Complex Paradox in France’s (Post)Racial Utopia
In July 2020, the comedy film Tout simplement noir by Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax was released at the height of “Black Lives Matter” marches around the world. This compelling text of the times can be interpreted either as a simple parody of identity politics discourses, black rights movements, and celebrity self-aggrandizement, or a complex paradox demonstrating the antinomic potentialities of the film exposing both racial and post-racial utopi…
Manger demain: Food Futures in French Fiction
France's national identity has long been inseparable from its culinary culture. From Taillevent's Le Viandier (c.1300) to Escoffier's Le Guide culinaire (1903), French treatises and texts led the way in establishing France's central role in codifying western food discourses. Against this backdrop of gastronomic glory, futuristic food fictions in French are few and far between, but they serve to reveal contemporary preoccupations and predictions r…
Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place
Terroir is an untranslatable, unstable, and often undefinable French term frequently used in the global wine industry. This article focuses on the transnational potentialities and cultural transferability of terroir in reflecting on French influences on Australian winemakers’ senses of place. After outlining the evolution of terroir in France to demonstrate how and why it appears to have become a floating signifier, I examine the use of terroir i…
The Translingual Turn and French Literary Prize-winners: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (2021)
This article explores the complex relationship between the translingual turn and French literary prize-winners by focusing on a recent Goncourt laureate, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and his plurivocal poetics of translingualism in La plus secr ete m emoire des hommes (2021).Through an examination of the text and its contexts, intertexts and paratexts, it demonstrates how the author draws on past, present and future representations of translingual lives…
Justine Feyereisen , Renouer avec la terre extatique: Essai de sensopoétique chez J.M.G. Le Clézio
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