Edward Ousselin
Biographic Data
| ID | 757860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Ousselin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Ousselin |
| SIGNATURE | OUSSELIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Baptiste Roger-Lacan , Le Roi: Une autre histoire de la droite
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Lisa Romain, Boualem Sansal à l’épreuve du réel
Martine Kahane, Enquête sur ‘Le Fantôme de l’Opéra’ de Gaston Leroux
Steffie Van Neste, Alexandre Dumas ou la curiosité moderne
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Claire Marchal, Le Cube: Révélations Sur Les Dérives De L’enseignement Supérieur Privé
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Le barman du Ritz by Philippe Collin (review)
Houris by Kamel Daoud (review)
Les guerriers de l’hiver by Olivier Norek (review)
Mélanie Fabre , Hussardes noires: Des enseignantes à l'avant-garde des luttes, de l'affaire Dreyfus à la Grande Guerre
Jérémie Foa , Survivre: Une histoire des guerres de Religion
Colas Duflo , 'Les Aventures de Télémaque' de Fénelon, ou, Le roman politique
Lauren Bentolila, Le Corps criminel dans le roman balzacien
Gisèle Séginger , Gustave Flaubert: Histoire Et Politique
Yannick Ripa et Françoise Thébaud , Les Féminismes: Une Histoire Mondiale, 19 E -20 E Siècles
Céline Lapertot, Des beaux jours qu'à ton front j'ai lus: Portrait de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Michel Winock, Pompes funèbres: Les Morts Illustres, 1871-1914
Audrey Duchâtel-Munter , Marguerite de Provence: Une reine de France au xiii e siècle
Solène Brun , Derrière le mythe métis: Enquête sur les couples mixtes et leurs descendants en France
Alexandra Delattre , À contretemps le roman catholique dans le second xix e siècle
Le Jour des caméléons by Ananda Devi (review)
Reviewed by: Le Jour des caméléons by Ananda Devi Edward Ousselin ANANDA DEVI Le Jour des caméléons Paris. Grasset. 2023. 272 pages. THE INDIAN OCEAN ISLAND nation of Mauritius, which is known for its ethnic and linguistic diversity, has produced three particularly notable novelists who write in French: Nathacha Appanah (whose latest book, La Mémoire délavée, was published in 2023); the 2008 Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clézio; and Ananda Devi …
L’Usure d’un monde: Une traversée de l’Iran by François-Henri Désérable (review)
L'autre nom du bonheur était français by Shumona Sinha (review)
Reviewed by: L'autre nom du bonheur était français by Shumona Sinha Edward Ousselin SHUMONA SINHA L'autre nom du bonheur était français Paris. Gallimard. 2022. 208 pages. BORN IN KOLKATA, INDIA, in 1973, Shumona Sinha started studying French fairly late, at the age of twenty-two. She moved to France six years later, in 2001, and married a poet, Lionel Ray. For several years, she worked as an English teacher. She and her husband also translated po…
Petit traité du racisme en Amérique by Dany Laferriére (review)
Reviewed by: Petit traité du racisme en Amérique by Dany Laferriére Edward Ousselin DANY LAFERRIÈRE Petit traité du racisme en Amérique Paris. Grasset. 2023. 256 pages. BORN IN HAITI in 1953, Dany Laferrière has been living abroad since 1976, mostly in Quebec, but also in Florida and in France. His first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired (Laferrière favors provocative titles), was published in 1985. Some of his books, all w…
Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga
Reviewed by: Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga Edward Ousselin SCHOLASTIQUE MUKASONGA Sister Deborah Paris. Gallimard. 2022. 160 pages. BORN IN RWANDA in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga moved to Burundi in 1973 (already because of anti-Tutsi persecution) before eventually settling in France in 1992. Many members of her extended family were killed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She published her first book, Inyenzi ou les cafards (Eng. Cock…
Cœur du Sahel Djaïli Amadou Amal
Reviewed by: Cœur du Sahel Djaïli Amadou Amal Edward Ousselin DJAÏLI AMADOU AMAL Cœur du Sahel Paris. Éditions Emmanuelle Collas. 2022. 364 pages. THE CAMEROONIAN NOVELIST Djaïli Amadou Amal (b. 1975) is best known for Les Impatientes (2020), which illustrates, from the contrasting perspectives of three main characters, the consequences of polygamy and arranged marriages on young women. While gender is the principal dividing line in Les Impatient…
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French Cultural Studies: An Oxymoron
Régisseur du rhum
La France que je voisMendras, Henri. La France que je vois . Paris: Autrement, 2002. Pp. 170. 14,95ζ
The Invention of Europe in French Literature and Film
Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped br
The European Spirit of Germaine de Staël
B orn into the intellectual and financial elite of the eighteenth century, Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) 1 became a pivotal literary and political figure during the transitional period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic regimes. The daughter of the Swiss banker and French government minister Jacques Necker, she married a Swedish diplomat and wrote at length about British, German, and Italian literatures. An innovative novelist, essayist, and lit…
Fado by Kettly Mars
Kettly Mars. Fado. Paris. Mercure de France. 2008. 110 pages. 12.50. isbn 978-2-7152-2853-5 In her thirdnovel, KettlyMars uses the rhythms of Portuguese fado music to depict the emotional reawakening of a divorced middle class woman, Anaise, who finds a new life, real or imagined, in a brothel in the slums of Port-au Prince, the Haitian capital. With her ex-husband now remarried to a younger woman and having at last succeeded in fatheringthe chil…
La consolante by Anna Gavalda
w I > I z I w H ^ I p I < H I H H D I I ^ o I he can become part of a culture of cruelty. Each chapter of the novel is a self-contained story thatbuilds toward an eerie or absurd climax. What holds the stories together is the reflective consciousness of the child. At the end ofmany of these episodes, the realist trappings fall away; what remains is the boy's urge to run, to get away and be somewhere else. East Central Europe is more divided today…
Mes hommes à moi by Ken Bugul
Hylke Speerstra's cold crusade. Fiction, page 70 Campbell McGrath's American epic. Verse, page 73 Dorota Maslowska's | globalized angst. | Miscellaneous, page 76 | I ^fc WORLD LITERATURE IN "T A JT Review Fiction Nicole Brossard. Fences in Breath ing. Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood, tr. Toronto. Coach House. 2009. 114 pages. Can$18.95/US$16.95. isbn978 1-55245-213-4 -. La capture du sombre. Montreal. Lemeac. 2007. 144 pages. Can$13.95. isbn978-2-7…
Les insÃ(c)parables by Marie Nimier
H Monenembo makes Olivier ^^^^H typically French inhis love of good ^^^^H food and his appreciation of femi ^^^^H nine beauty. He invents a love life ^^^^H forOlivier with thewife of a Fulani ^^^^H prince; the Frenchman, however, ^^^^H disowns the woman when his French ^^ ^H son sees her, perhaps his only thor ^^^^H oughly baseaction. ^^HJ^I In presenting a Frenchman in ^^Hlf^B many ways theopposite of the typi cal colonialist, Tierno Monenembo h…
La barque silencieuse by Pascal Quignard
affluent Polish woman who gives the couple a lift expresses admira tion fortheir lifestyle:"You have no things,no lug-jij,credit cards,monii, you're just travllin. Free from all the constant eating and schittingof theworld. You have no ideawhat a messch itall isch." This precocious, iconoclastic Polish literaryphenom enon evocatively portrays global ized angst in late-capitalist societies. RaymondTaxas Stanford University Pascal Quignard. La barq…
Les voyageurs du temps by Philippe Sollers
> w P?' Z l-H w D H < w H ? *j c* O 5? iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimii Scott Slovic. Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocriti cal Responsibility. Reno. University of Nevada Press. 2008. xv + 245 pages. $24.95. isbn978-0-87417-756-5 In this collection of occasional essays, several published else where, ecocritic Scott Slovic gath ers, under the poles of savoring and saving, the thoughts resulting from more than a decade's worth ofworld travel.…
Impardonnables by Philippe Djian
break isdownrightpoetic. In fact,the small sections thatmake up the narra tivealign likeenjambedmeter. Apropos Opa can be read in a single afternoon, and its brevity? the seemingly effortlessway it so succinctly captures seventy years and three generations of a single family?is perhaps itsfinestachieve ment. Though trim,thenovel is fur therproof that even the grandchil dren of thewar generation have a story to tellabout it. Kyle Semmel Washington…
Le sec et l'humide by Jonathan Littell
says thatone such assumption is the "tautological idea thatsince India isa huge baggy monster, thenovels that accommodate it have to be baggy monsters as well." Another assump tion is thatbecause "thepostcolonial, often diasporic, Indian is a hybrid entity, the language of the postco lonial too must be hybrid, with a scattering of untranslated Indian words and phrases and odd sentence constructions." Chaudhuri says, "In a culture of signification…
Puisque mon coeur est mort by Maïssa Bey
WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW ^^^^^^^^^^^Hpi i Using a consistently direct, ele gantly concise style, Ananissoh suc cessfully conveys his vision of an irreducible core of moral darkness in the heat and blinding light of the noonday sun. Edward Ousselin Western Washington University M?issa Bey. Puisque mon c ur est mort La Tour d'Aigu?s, France. LAube. 2010.254 pages. 18. isbn 978-2-8159-0000-3 Aida, a divorced, middle-aged Alge rian mother and Engli…
Le jour oÃ1 Malika ne s'est pas mariÃ(c)e by Fouad Laroui
I, Kwahul?, a prize-winning dra 1 matist, portrays his characters , through the rhythmof their speech. 1 Much of the power of the novel I results from the playful use of lan 1 guage. "Monsieur" makes lists com i paring various phenomena, lists [ interruptedby his asthmatic cough ? ing. He speculates about what will , happen to the disease when the patient dies; he says his landlady i cannot be called obese because she 1 is not American. He descri…
TÃ(c)nà ̈bres à midi by Théo Ananissoh
Petra H?lov?'s feminine pointillism. Fiction, page 62 Adam Zagajewski's vanquished fears. Verse, page 75 Helen Weaver's Beat Generation memoir. Miscellaneous, page 79 FICTION Th?o Ananissoh. T?n?bres ? midi. Paris. Gallimard. 2010.139 pages. 13.90. ISBN 978-2-07-012775-7 The unnamed narrator of Th?o /manissoh's third novel is, much like the author, a French-language Togolese writer who has been liv ing in Germany for several years. V\fhen he meet…
La raparille by Fadel Dia
Tiphanie Yanique's Don Bogen's JohnDAgata's audacious stories. fragmented clarity. idiosyncratic mosaic. Fiction, page 71 Verse, page 73 Miscellaneous, page 77 WORLD LITERATURE IN EVIEW FICTION Don DeLillo. Point Omega. New York. Scribner. 2010. 117 pages. $24. isbn 978-1-4391-6995-7 Don DeLillo has been flirting with relatively short forms, novellas more than novels, since the triumph of his magnum opus, Underworld (1997). His latest offering, P…
Clandestino by Sergio Kokis (review)
towarda plausibleterminus, we never truly find a complete story. Blayze Hembree University ofOklahoma SergioKokis. Clandestino. Montreal. Levesque. 2010.256 pages.Can$25. isbn 978-2-923844-33-6 Born in1944 inRiodeJaneiro, Sergio Kokisstudied psychology inFrance before moving toMontreal in 1969. He stoppedworking as a clinical psychologist in1997 tobecome a fulltime painter andwriter. Whether set inSouthAmerica (Le retour deLorenzo Sanchez, 2008)o…
Le jour du Roi by Abdellah Taïa
"the accidentof being born in one place, not another. . . could turn your fellow human beings against you,and you intoa huntedanimal." Schwartzman'sreader findsherself confronted witha portrait ofFrench racerelationsand immigration policythat , whilesomehowoptimistic in itsemphasison theresilienceofthe marginalized,also makes painfully real the crueltyof a lifeconstantly threatened bytheprospectofpenalization and separation fromthose one loves. C…
Amerika
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2012 69 Homecoming Denys Johnson-Davies, ed. and tr. American University in Cairo Press Since the inception of Egyptian short fiction just sixty years ago, Egyptian writers and translators have struggled to find a place for Egyptian literature on the global stage. This collection of fifty-six remarkable stories written across those six decades is a testament to their success. Erri De Luca The Day Before Happiness Michael F. Moor…
Lâinterrogatoire Pilate by Mario Boivin
May– june 2012 67 make it knowable and meaningful. But The Lost Word is, above all, a book about Turkey, a brave and timely book. The mere mention of Kurdistan was once enough to put a writer in prison. Baydar dares to explore the Kurdish question, one of Turkey’s most sensitive cultural and political taboos, openly and sympathetically, and with the compassion required of our humanity. Turkey needs more writers like Oya Baydar and more books like…
An Arab Melancholia
68 World Literature Today reviews Botho Strauss. Sie / Er. Munich. Hanser. 2012. isbn 9783446238657 If you aren’t yet familiar with Botho Strauss, one of Germany’s most critically acclaimed prose writers of the last forty years and arguably its most well-known current dramatist, then the recently released Sie/Er, a collection of thirty-five stories originally published between 1987 and 2009, will serve as an excellent introduction to his oeuvre, …
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferrire
reviews his first encounter with it at the age of nineteen through his response, twenty-five years later, as a mature poet and master technician. This concentration on the physical and psychological circumstances of the moment, which may be indebted to the type of prayer called “composition of place” in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, informs much of the book. The attention to detail allows Hass to fix on moments, like those in Che…
Éloge du blasphème Éloge du blasphème . Par C aroline F ourest . Paris: Grasset, 2015. 198 pp
Journal Article Éloge du blasphème Get access Éloge du blasphème. Par Caroline Fourest. Paris: Grasset, 2015. 198 pp. Edward Ousselin Edward Ousselin Western Washington University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 70, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 147–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knv293 Published: 28 December 2015
La septià ̈me fonction du langage by Laurent Binet
Fiction Froon Akker (pseudonym for Koos Tiemersma). Einum. Ljouwert, Netherlands. Elikser Uitgeverij. 2015. 311 pages. In 2010 Koos Tiemersma intimated that Under Water would be his last published novel. Fortunately, and to the delight of his appreciative readers, he changed his mind. Each of his novels has been distinctively different from the previous one, and Einum follows the pattern. In fact, it is more a collection of stories than a traditi…
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