Jennifer Yee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Yee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Yee |
| SIGNATURE | YEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5191-5655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The endings of empire
Zola's Une page d'amour
In the 1860s and 1870s Japanese art inspired great enthusiasm in France, both in fashionable Parisian circles and among artists. A dual response to this art underlies Émile Zola's novel Une page d'amour (1878). The novel shows us japonaiserie - the fashionable collection and imitation of Japanese objects for their exotic appeal - in the Japanese pavilion decorated by a society hostess, and in fancy-dress costume worn by the heroine Hélène's daugh…
Émile Zola’s Black Lives
Émile Zola's allusion to (fictional) colonial medical experimentation in La Joie de vivre requires us to reconsider the impact of racial and geographical distance on empathy. Cazenove, a doctor whose formative years were spent with the colonial navy, recalls his own experiments with vivisection on Black women, and trying out poisons on Asian subjects. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of empathy by Carlo Ginzburg and Paul Bloom, this art…
Bridging the procedures skill gap from medical school to residency
Students demonstrated procedural competency for central venous catheter placement and endotracheal intubation by engaging in simulation-based mastery learning procedures curriculum as they completed their medical school training. With three instructional hours, students were able to achieve basic procedural competence for two common, high-risk procedures they will need to perform during emergency medicine residency training
Kitsch Enters the Novel
Gustave Flaubert is famous for his collection of "idées reçues," or over-used ideas expressed in hackneyed language. Less widely recognized is his interest in "images reçues," or images from popular culture, at a time when the word "kitsch" is entering usage elsewhere. Flaubert effectively exposes popular imagery as kitsch, framing the description of representational material objects (Keepsakes, prints, a wedding cake) within his prose just as he…
French Decadence in a Global Context
Decadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France’s modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial, anticolonial and apolitical. This edited volume gives a sense of the sheer range and diversity of intersections between colonialism and Decadence, from anticolonial anarchist writers to colonia…
Baudelaire's Ironic Lighthouse
Visual interpretation can offer a means of critical exegesis, as demonstrated in this article, which proposes a reading of Charles Baudelaire's poem "L'Irrémédiable" via a series of original drawings, in a process of reverse ekphrasis. "L'Irrémédiable" is read as both an ekphrastic, antimodern poem exploring a series of old-fashioned emblems and a radical step toward iconicity in which the shape of the poem gives spatial expression to the ironic …
Towards a Postcolonial Nineteenth Century
This special issue of French Studies explores the feasibility of -and need fornew work at the intersection of nineteenth-century French studies and postcolonial studies.Researchers have for some time explored 'postcolonial' approaches to the nineteenth century in France and the wider French-speaking world, so that this can no longer be seen as a missed cross-disciplinary rendezvous.To say merely that the further development of such a project rema…
Colonizing the Canon
The geographical focus of the French realist and naturalist novel is overwhelmingly on metropolitan France. However, a postcolonial reading of these metropolitan novels reveals links to France's colonies that cannot easily be reduced to colonialist propaganda. Such a reading deploys modes that might be qualified as suspicious (Ross Chambers) or contrapuntal (Edward Said). It reveals off-stage spaces that can be approached in terms of Foucault's '…
The Colonial Comedy
Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - she reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts.
Critical Orientalism
Writers working within the realist mode emphasize the difficulties of direct knowledge of foreign lands and peoples. This chapter deals with the metatextual literary theme of reading and writing on the colonies as misguided, textually derivative, or deliberately fraudulent. Realist novels expose misrepresentation through the copying of earlier textual sources and through misguided daydreaming or Exotic Bovarysm. Colonial encounters are also prese…
Exoticism and colonialism
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Like an Apparition
This article looks at intratextual echoes, within Flaubert's 1869 Éducation sentimentale , of his earlier novel Salammbô (1862) and the various accounts of his voyage in Egypt between 1849 and 1851 (including his notes and letters, and published accounts by his travel companion Maxime Du Camp). The manuscripts of L'Éducation sentimentale also reveal traces, later removed, of these earlier texts. Flaubert employs imagery associated with two Orient…
French Romantic Travel Writing
French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval, by C. W. Thompson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 453 pp., £60.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923354-0 Does travel writing in the French Romantic
Races on Display
Reviewed by: Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940 Jennifer Yee Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940. By Dana S. Hale. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008). Based on the author's 1998 Ph.D, Races on Display is part of a wave of studies that, from the 1980s onwards, examine the cultural history of world fairs and exhibitions, and more specifically the …
Honesty doesn’t Always Pay – The Role of Honesty of Accounts for Success made in an Educational Setting in Inferences of Modesty and Arrogance
Recycling the ‘Colonial Harem’? Women in Postcards from French Indochina
Recycling the ‘Colonial Harem’? Women in Postcards from French Indochina
While there has been relatively little serious analysis of colonial postcards, Malek Alloula’s influential book Le Harem colonial put forward a reading of such postcards from the early 1900s as perpetuating a harem fantasy through which French male colonists viewed North Africa. This article analyses a selection of postcards of women from France’s Indochinese colonies at the same period, and suggests that Alloula’s thesis does not fit them in a c…
Métissage in France
Increasingly in the last decade France has defined its identity in terms of mixity. Its new vocation as a land of me ́tissage is associated with the,‘black, blanc, beur’ theme of mixed identity. While the old ideal of the universalism of French values is now largely discredited, multiculturalism generally retains a negative association for the French: me ́tissage, instead, is held up as a new ideal, indeed a new universal value. This article comm…
L’Orient des femmes
Ce recueil de textes offre un vaste nuancier de micro-lectures sur l’Orient des femmes : non seulement sur les femmes d’Orient, mais aussi sur les femmes en Orient, les femmes et l’Orient. En explorant des domaines aussi divers que l’histoire de l’art, l’histoire des sciences, la littérature classique, la littérature de voyage, l’anthropologie, les sciences politiques et la psychanalyse, ces études apportent l’éclairage de prismes différents, voi…
Malaria and the Femme Fatale
Paul-à tienne Vigné (1859-1943), a doctor with the French colonial army and then a politician, is remembered as a very early anti-colonialist. During his lifetime he was also known as a novelist writing under the pseudonym Vigné dâ Octon. His novels from the 1880s and 1890s reveal a fantasized, intensely sexual Africa where hapless French soldiers perish of malarial fever caught not from a mosquito-borne parasite but from contact with African wom…
The Colonial Outsider
Jennifer Yee, The Colonial Outsider: "Malgérie" in Hélène Cixous's Les rêveries de la femme sauvage, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2, Women Writing Across the World (Autumn, 2001), pp. 189-200
Colonial Virility and the Femme Fatale
COLONIAL VIRILITY AND THE FEMME FATALE: SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES IN FRENCH INDOCHINA JENNIFER YEE JENNIFER YEE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 469–478, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.4.469 Published: 01 October 2000
La Tahoser de Gautier et la Salammbô de Flaubert
Métissage in France
Increasingly in the last decade France has defined its identity in terms of mixity. Its new vocation as a land of me ́tissage is associated with the,‘black, blanc, beur’ theme of mixed identity. While the old ideal of the universalism of French values is now largely discredited, multiculturalism generally retains a negative association for the French: me ́tissage, instead, is held up as a new ideal, indeed a new universal value. This article comm…
Honesty doesn’t Always Pay – The Role of Honesty of Accounts for Success made in an Educational Setting in Inferences of Modesty and Arrogance
Recycling the ‘Colonial Harem’? Women in Postcards from French Indochina
While there has been relatively little serious analysis of colonial postcards, Malek Alloula’s influential book Le Harem colonial put forward a reading of such postcards from the early 1900s as perpetuating a harem fantasy through which French male colonists viewed North Africa. This article analyses a selection of postcards of women from France’s Indochinese colonies at the same period, and suggests that Alloula’s thesis does not fit them in a c…
La Tahoser de Gautier et la Salammbô de Flaubert
Colonial Virility and the Femme Fatale
COLONIAL VIRILITY AND THE FEMME FATALE: SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES IN FRENCH INDOCHINA JENNIFER YEE JENNIFER YEE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 469–478, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.4.469 Published: 01 October 2000
The Colonial Outsider
Jennifer Yee, The Colonial Outsider: "Malgérie" in Hélène Cixous's Les rêveries de la femme sauvage, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2, Women Writing Across the World (Autumn, 2001), pp. 189-200
L’Orient des femmes
Ce recueil de textes offre un vaste nuancier de micro-lectures sur l’Orient des femmes : non seulement sur les femmes d’Orient, mais aussi sur les femmes en Orient, les femmes et l’Orient. En explorant des domaines aussi divers que l’histoire de l’art, l’histoire des sciences, la littérature classique, la littérature de voyage, l’anthropologie, les sciences politiques et la psychanalyse, ces études apportent l’éclairage de prismes différents, voi…
Malaria and the Femme Fatale
Paul-à tienne Vigné (1859-1943), a doctor with the French colonial army and then a politician, is remembered as a very early anti-colonialist. During his lifetime he was also known as a novelist writing under the pseudonym Vigné dâ Octon. His novels from the 1880s and 1890s reveal a fantasized, intensely sexual Africa where hapless French soldiers perish of malarial fever caught not from a mosquito-borne parasite but from contact with African wom…
Métissage in France
Increasingly in the last decade France has defined its identity in terms of mixity. Its new vocation as a land of me ́tissage is associated with the,‘black, blanc, beur’ theme of mixed identity. While the old ideal of the universalism of French values is now largely discredited, multiculturalism generally retains a negative association for the French: me ́tissage, instead, is held up as a new ideal, indeed a new universal value. This article comm…
Recycling the ‘Colonial Harem’? Women in Postcards from French Indochina
Recycling the ‘Colonial Harem’? Women in Postcards from French Indochina
While there has been relatively little serious analysis of colonial postcards, Malek Alloula’s influential book Le Harem colonial put forward a reading of such postcards from the early 1900s as perpetuating a harem fantasy through which French male colonists viewed North Africa. This article analyses a selection of postcards of women from France’s Indochinese colonies at the same period, and suggests that Alloula’s thesis does not fit them in a c…
Honesty doesn’t Always Pay – The Role of Honesty of Accounts for Success made in an Educational Setting in Inferences of Modesty and Arrogance
Races on Display
Reviewed by: Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940 Jennifer Yee Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940. By Dana S. Hale. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008). Based on the author's 1998 Ph.D, Races on Display is part of a wave of studies that, from the 1980s onwards, examine the cultural history of world fairs and exhibitions, and more specifically the …
French Romantic Travel Writing
French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval, by C. W. Thompson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 453 pp., £60.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923354-0 Does travel writing in the French Romantic
Like an Apparition
This article looks at intratextual echoes, within Flaubert's 1869 Éducation sentimentale , of his earlier novel Salammbô (1862) and the various accounts of his voyage in Egypt between 1849 and 1851 (including his notes and letters, and published accounts by his travel companion Maxime Du Camp). The manuscripts of L'Éducation sentimentale also reveal traces, later removed, of these earlier texts. Flaubert employs imagery associated with two Orient…
Exoticism and colonialism
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Colonial Comedy
Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - she reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts.
Critical Orientalism
Writers working within the realist mode emphasize the difficulties of direct knowledge of foreign lands and peoples. This chapter deals with the metatextual literary theme of reading and writing on the colonies as misguided, textually derivative, or deliberately fraudulent. Realist novels expose misrepresentation through the copying of earlier textual sources and through misguided daydreaming or Exotic Bovarysm. Colonial encounters are also prese…
Towards a Postcolonial Nineteenth Century
This special issue of French Studies explores the feasibility of -and need fornew work at the intersection of nineteenth-century French studies and postcolonial studies.Researchers have for some time explored 'postcolonial' approaches to the nineteenth century in France and the wider French-speaking world, so that this can no longer be seen as a missed cross-disciplinary rendezvous.To say merely that the further development of such a project rema…
Colonizing the Canon
The geographical focus of the French realist and naturalist novel is overwhelmingly on metropolitan France. However, a postcolonial reading of these metropolitan novels reveals links to France's colonies that cannot easily be reduced to colonialist propaganda. Such a reading deploys modes that might be qualified as suspicious (Ross Chambers) or contrapuntal (Edward Said). It reveals off-stage spaces that can be approached in terms of Foucault's '…
French Decadence in a Global Context
Decadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France’s modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial, anticolonial and apolitical. This edited volume gives a sense of the sheer range and diversity of intersections between colonialism and Decadence, from anticolonial anarchist writers to colonia…
Baudelaire's Ironic Lighthouse
Visual interpretation can offer a means of critical exegesis, as demonstrated in this article, which proposes a reading of Charles Baudelaire's poem "L'Irrémédiable" via a series of original drawings, in a process of reverse ekphrasis. "L'Irrémédiable" is read as both an ekphrastic, antimodern poem exploring a series of old-fashioned emblems and a radical step toward iconicity in which the shape of the poem gives spatial expression to the ironic …
Émile Zola’s Black Lives
Émile Zola's allusion to (fictional) colonial medical experimentation in La Joie de vivre requires us to reconsider the impact of racial and geographical distance on empathy. Cazenove, a doctor whose formative years were spent with the colonial navy, recalls his own experiments with vivisection on Black women, and trying out poisons on Asian subjects. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of empathy by Carlo Ginzburg and Paul Bloom, this art…
Bridging the procedures skill gap from medical school to residency
Students demonstrated procedural competency for central venous catheter placement and endotracheal intubation by engaging in simulation-based mastery learning procedures curriculum as they completed their medical school training. With three instructional hours, students were able to achieve basic procedural competence for two common, high-risk procedures they will need to perform during emergency medicine residency training
Kitsch Enters the Novel
Gustave Flaubert is famous for his collection of "idées reçues," or over-used ideas expressed in hackneyed language. Less widely recognized is his interest in "images reçues," or images from popular culture, at a time when the word "kitsch" is entering usage elsewhere. Flaubert effectively exposes popular imagery as kitsch, framing the description of representational material objects (Keepsakes, prints, a wedding cake) within his prose just as he…
Zola's Une page d'amour
In the 1860s and 1870s Japanese art inspired great enthusiasm in France, both in fashionable Parisian circles and among artists. A dual response to this art underlies Émile Zola's novel Une page d'amour (1878). The novel shows us japonaiserie - the fashionable collection and imitation of Japanese objects for their exotic appeal - in the Japanese pavilion decorated by a society hostess, and in fancy-dress costume worn by the heroine Hélène's daugh…
The endings of empire
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