Mireille Rosello
Biographic Data
| ID | 760953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mireille Rosello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mireille |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosello |
| SIGNATURE | ROSELLO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Globalization, Cinema, and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb’s Films: London River, Baton Rouge, and Little Senegal
Globalisation, Cinema and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb’s Films: London River, Baton Rouge and Little Senegal
Globalisation, Cinema and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb’s Films: London River, Baton Rouge and Little Senegal
Rachid Bouchareb describes London River as ‘my film about the 7/7 London bombings’ and this chapter observes what the director’s filmic language tells us about how to represent the intersection between globalization, nationalism, religion, terrorism and cinema. A comparison between this most recent film and earlier works such as Baton Rouge (1985) and Little Senegal (2001) suggests that Bouchareb has always troubled the generic filmic conventions…
Jeanne and Charles: Les Fleurs du Mal as “uncertain fables”
This article explores the constantly evolving status of “Jeanne Duval” within the various discourses that constitute French studies. Travelling back and forth between invisibility and hyper-visibility, legibility and opacity, at times relegated to the margins of Baudelaire’s poetry, and sometimes moving to the forefront of feminist and postcolonial literature, Jeanne Duval is an elusive subject and object. In this text, the two words Jeanne Duval…
Silence, violence, and the invisibility of dissensus
In the aftermath of what happened in Paris in January 2015, I was disturbed by two deafening kinds of silence. One was the silence that violence wants and tries to impose (it is defined as the opposite of free speech). The other was a form of mourning, a ritualized collective performance of collective grieving in response to inadmissible violence. The former threatened our imminent future, the latter lasted one minute. Because the coexistence bet…
Comment s'inventer un père écrivain: Albert Camus chez Maïssa Bey
Cet article analyse la place de Camus dans l'oeuvre de Maïssa Bey, repérant dans Au commencement était la mer et L'Ombre d'un homme qui marche au soleil le rôle paradoxal et ambivalent que l'auteur fait jouer au père ou plutôt à ses pères. Bey rapproche et oppose le père biologique (le grand absent mort en héros pendant la guerre d'indépendance) de Camus, l'écrivain francophone qui sert de modèle et d'anti-modèle. Ces deux figures transformées en…
What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms
What’s Queer about Europe is not about queer communities in Europe. It is about the ways in which Queer Theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counter-intuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. The encounter between a queer perspective and Europe forces a reconsideration of both. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer. It refracts received understandings of queer through analyses of historical a…
What's Queer about Europe: Productive Encounters and Re-Enchanting Paradigms
Olivier Masset-Depasse's Illégal: How to Narrate Silence and Horror
Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Illégal:How to Narrate Silence and Horror Mireille Rosello (bio) I am told that you raised your hand against yourself Anticipating the butcher. [...] So the future lies in darkness and the forces of right Are weak. All this was plain to you When you destroyed a torturable body. -- Bertold Brecht “On the Suicide of the Refugee W.B.” Like many influential contemporary thinkers, Arjun Appadurai and Giorgio Agamben suggest th…
Queer Virginity: Leïla Maraoune's La Vie sexuelle d'un islamiste à Paris
There is something deceptively binary about Leïla Marouane's novel, The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris: her male protagonist is a forty-year old virgin who wishes to "conquer" Western female bodies for whom procreation, marriage and commitment are (he hopes) irrelevant. At the same time, he does not seem able to break free from supposedly traditional Muslim values. And he is obsessed by an overpowering mother does not stop pressuring him int…
Tremblements universalistes: Parlez-moi de la Pluie d'Agnès Jaoui
Guerre des mémoires ou ‘parallèles dangereux’ dans Le Village de L'Allemand de Boualem Sansal
‘The Schiller Brothers’ Diary’ (the subtitle of Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand) is the encounter between two diaries that bring together the memories of several European and African communities. Two young men who think that they are the children of Kabylian peasants murdered by Algerian fundamentalists discover that their father is a Nazi war criminal whose story they must uncover. In order to explore the border between fundamentalism …
Wanted: Organs, Passports and the Integrity of the Transient's Body
This article focuses on Stephen Frears's 2003 Dirty Pretty Things. I argue that Frears's portrayal of the encounter between a Nigerian man and a Turkish woman in contemporary London invites us to re-conceptualize the relationship between the migrant and the host country. The film invites us to compare the circulation of migrants across a globalized transnational world to organs removed from one body and implanted into another. It questions our us…
"Detective Fiction and "Repentance: Legal Powerlessness and the Power of Narratives
Laïcité, grammar, fable: Secular Teaching of Secularism
Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film (review)
Reviewed by: Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film Mireille Rosello Armes, Roy . 2005. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 278 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Readers familiar with Roy Armes's previous books will be on familiar ground as they open Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. They will recognize the author's critical signature, his encyclopedic knowledg…
Elissa Rha s: Scandals, Impostures, Who Owns the Story
The issues of who owns a text and who has a right to be called an author are passionately re-examined whenever a writer's textual practices or public performance of identity are suddenly exposed as deceptive. And when the scandal is generated around a colonial subject (in this case Elissa Rhaïs, either the first Algerian Muslim writer or an impostor), the question of authenticity becomes indistinguishable from the definition of who is a French or…
Frontières invisibles autour des Banlieues: Des «dérouilleurs» aux «soldats perdus de l'Islam»
Gisèle Halimi entre plainte et plaidoyer: ‘On naît avocate, on ne le devient pas’
This intellectual portrait of defence lawyer and feminist activist Gisèle Halimi tests the hypothesis that her writings function like one long closing argument in a courtroom, where a passionate ‘I’ fights for Justice not only by making sure that the Law is upheld but, when necessary, trying to change the Law with the weapons authorised by the judicial system—narratives and stories. Each word is at the service of the overall agenda. One of the un…
Globalization or `Guignolisation`: Derision and Liberalism
Unhoming Francophone Studies: A House in the Middle of the Current
Faranca-Algeries ou Djazair-frances? Fractales et mesententes fructueuses
l'occasion de l'ann e de l'Alg rie en France, ce texte s'interroge sur la fa on dont on peut penser la rencontre entre les deux nations. Et parmi la multitude de mod les que les chercheurs interdisciplinaires ont propos s, il retient celui de Jacques Ranci re (La M sentente, 1995), celui de Benjamin Stora (sur le m lange des m moires ), et enfin celui d'Etienne Balibar, qui r fl chit l'interp n tration Alg rie-France. Il ne s'agit pas de choisir …
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest
In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the twentieth century. Po…
Agnès Varda's Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Lady
Agnes Varda's latest documentary, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse/Gleaners and I, was presented at the fifty-third International Festival at Cannes, in May 2000. Her points of departure are a word looked up in the Larousse dictionary (‘glaner’), the reproduction of the canonical painting that illustrates the article (‘Les glaneuses’ by Jean-Francois Millet), and more importantly, her interest in the ‘urban gleaners’ who live in her neighbourhood. Var…
The ?C saire Effect,? or How to Cultivate One's Nation
When discursive rupture points explode on the cultural scene, due to the incandescent power of a thinker's words as well as to a public's ability to hear the call of a new political and poetic voice, the person who originally embodied the new cry soon disappears behind his or her notoriety. Like Marx, like Freud, Césaire hardly owns his words, his persona is public property, even his written work is tightly interwoven with that of his critics, co…
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest
In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the twentieth century. Po…
Pictures of a virus: Ideological choices and the representation of HIV
One More Sea to Cross: Exile and Intertextuality in Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
Guerre des mémoires ou ‘parallèles dangereux’ dans Le Village de L'Allemand de Boualem Sansal
‘The Schiller Brothers’ Diary’ (the subtitle of Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand) is the encounter between two diaries that bring together the memories of several European and African communities. Two young men who think that they are the children of Kabylian peasants murdered by Algerian fundamentalists discover that their father is a Nazi war criminal whose story they must uncover. In order to explore the border between fundamentalism …
Unhoming Francophone Studies: A House in the Middle of the Current
Interpreting Immigration Laws: Crimes of Hospitality" or "Crimes against Hospitality
Diaspora 8:3 1999 Interpreting Immigration Laws: "Crimes of Hospitality" or "Crimes against Hospitality" Mireille Rosello Northwestern University In a recent book entitled L'injustifiable: les politiques françaises de l'immigration, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau writes, Par le renforcement aveugle et continu de leur politique répressive à l'égard des immigrés, les ministres de l'Intérieur successifs ont contribué à éliminer l'hospitalité du champ d…
FrenchBidonvillesin the 1960s: Urban & individual initiatives
Caribbean Insularisation of Identities in Maryse Conde's Work: From En attendant le bonheur to Les derniers rois mages
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1995
Wanted: Organs, Passports and the Integrity of the Transient's Body
This article focuses on Stephen Frears's 2003 Dirty Pretty Things. I argue that Frears's portrayal of the encounter between a Nigerian man and a Turkish woman in contemporary London invites us to re-conceptualize the relationship between the migrant and the host country. The film invites us to compare the circulation of migrants across a globalized transnational world to organs removed from one body and implanted into another. It questions our us…
Faranca-Algeries ou Djazair-frances? Fractales et mesententes fructueuses
l'occasion de l'ann e de l'Alg rie en France, ce texte s'interroge sur la fa on dont on peut penser la rencontre entre les deux nations. Et parmi la multitude de mod les que les chercheurs interdisciplinaires ont propos s, il retient celui de Jacques Ranci re (La M sentente, 1995), celui de Benjamin Stora (sur le m lange des m moires ), et enfin celui d'Etienne Balibar, qui r fl chit l'interp n tration Alg rie-France. Il ne s'agit pas de choisir …
The ?C saire Effect,? or How to Cultivate One's Nation
When discursive rupture points explode on the cultural scene, due to the incandescent power of a thinker's words as well as to a public's ability to hear the call of a new political and poetic voice, the person who originally embodied the new cry soon disappears behind his or her notoriety. Like Marx, like Freud, Césaire hardly owns his words, his persona is public property, even his written work is tightly interwoven with that of his critics, co…
Michele Maillet's L'Etoile Noire: Historian's Counter-History and Translator's Counter-Silence
Lorsque j'ai ete prisonniere, d'abord dans une prison franqaise, ensuite dans un camp en Allemagne, j'ai connu des compagnes qui prenaient des notes, et parfois pour I a premiere fois de leur vie. Je preferais consacrer mon energie Ades choses plus importantes, ne pas non plus provoquer le sort en encourant des risques supplementaires, sans compter que je savais deja que je n'aurais pas envie de conserver certains souvenirs. Il y a des moments ou…
La Goutte d’or: Le peep-show, la vitrine et le miroir sans tain
La Goutte d'or: le peep-show, la vitrine et le miroir sans tain MIREILLE ROSELLOEt la société immonde se rua comme un seul Narcisse pour contempler sa triviale image sur le métal.Beaudelaire, Salon de 1859 À ses yeux tout est beau, même la laideur.Michel Tournier, Le Vent Paraclet II est toujours très facile, et remarquablement tentant pour le critique amoureux de modélisations et de schémas abstraits, de résumer ou plutôt de réduire les romans d…
Franquin et Reiser: Vers une ethique de l'humour noir comme surenchere
L'atmosphere enfievree d'une aux encheres est un spectacle bizarre dont l'etude pourrait modifier nos theories sur ce qu'est le commerce, et sur ce qu'est 'humour noir: en effet, le phenomene de la surenchere rend presque non-pertinentes les notions theoriques de client, de vendeur, de valeur d'usage et valeur d'echange. Pendant la montee des encheres, la tension, le suspense, l'activite febrile tres reconnaissables pour le profane rendent l'atmo…
One More Sea to Cross: Exile and Intertextuality in Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
Michele Maillet's L'Etoile Noire: Historian's Counter-History and Translator's Counter-Silence
Lorsque j'ai ete prisonniere, d'abord dans une prison franqaise, ensuite dans un camp en Allemagne, j'ai connu des compagnes qui prenaient des notes, et parfois pour I a premiere fois de leur vie. Je preferais consacrer mon energie Ades choses plus importantes, ne pas non plus provoquer le sort en encourant des risques supplementaires, sans compter que je savais deja que je n'aurais pas envie de conserver certains souvenirs. Il y a des moments ou…
The critic as tourist: Hottentot Venuses and comparatist glands
Caribbean Insularisation of Identities in Maryse Conde's Work: From En attendant le bonheur to Les derniers rois mages
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1995
FrenchBidonvillesin the 1960s: Urban & individual initiatives
Conversations with Maryse Conde
This book is an exploration of the life and art of Maryse Conde, who first won international acclaim for Segu, a novel about West African experience and the slave trade. Born in Guadeloupe in 1937, Conde lived in Guinea after it won its independence from France. Later she lived in Ghana and Senegal during turbulent, decisive moments in the histories of these countries. Her writings--novels, plays, essays, stories, and children's books--have led h…
Pictures of a virus: Ideological choices and the representation of HIV
Dissident Voices before the Revolution: Ridicule (Leconte, I996)
In France, Patrice Leconte is probably best known for his popular comedies such as Les Bronzes (1978) and its sequel Les Bronzes font du ski (1979). Abroad, and especially in the United States, his name was perhaps not as familiar until the end of the 1980s when he directed Monsieur Hire (1988) and Le Mari de la coiffeuse (1990), the two films most often mentioned by Anglo-Saxon critics. Ridicule is one of his most recent films and it is his firs…
Interpreting Immigration Laws: Crimes of Hospitality" or "Crimes against Hospitality
Diaspora 8:3 1999 Interpreting Immigration Laws: "Crimes of Hospitality" or "Crimes against Hospitality" Mireille Rosello Northwestern University In a recent book entitled L'injustifiable: les politiques françaises de l'immigration, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau writes, Par le renforcement aveugle et continu de leur politique répressive à l'égard des immigrés, les ministres de l'Intérieur successifs ont contribué à éliminer l'hospitalité du champ d…
"Merzak Allouache's "Salut Cousin: Immigrants, Hosts, and Parasites
Mireille Rosello, Merzak Allouache's "Salut Cousin!": Immigrants, Hosts, and Parasites, South Central Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, Cinema Engage: Activist Filmmaking in French and Francophone Contexts (Autumn, 2000), pp. 104-118
Agnès Varda's Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Lady
Agnes Varda's latest documentary, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse/Gleaners and I, was presented at the fifty-third International Festival at Cannes, in May 2000. Her points of departure are a word looked up in the Larousse dictionary (‘glaner’), the reproduction of the canonical painting that illustrates the article (‘Les glaneuses’ by Jean-Francois Millet), and more importantly, her interest in the ‘urban gleaners’ who live in her neighbourhood. Var…
The ?C saire Effect,? or How to Cultivate One's Nation
When discursive rupture points explode on the cultural scene, due to the incandescent power of a thinker's words as well as to a public's ability to hear the call of a new political and poetic voice, the person who originally embodied the new cry soon disappears behind his or her notoriety. Like Marx, like Freud, Césaire hardly owns his words, his persona is public property, even his written work is tightly interwoven with that of his critics, co…
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest
In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the twentieth century. Po…
Globalization or `Guignolisation`: Derision and Liberalism
Unhoming Francophone Studies: A House in the Middle of the Current
Faranca-Algeries ou Djazair-frances? Fractales et mesententes fructueuses
l'occasion de l'ann e de l'Alg rie en France, ce texte s'interroge sur la fa on dont on peut penser la rencontre entre les deux nations. Et parmi la multitude de mod les que les chercheurs interdisciplinaires ont propos s, il retient celui de Jacques Ranci re (La M sentente, 1995), celui de Benjamin Stora (sur le m lange des m moires ), et enfin celui d'Etienne Balibar, qui r fl chit l'interp n tration Alg rie-France. Il ne s'agit pas de choisir …
Frontières invisibles autour des Banlieues: Des «dérouilleurs» aux «soldats perdus de l'Islam»
Gisèle Halimi entre plainte et plaidoyer: ‘On naît avocate, on ne le devient pas’
This intellectual portrait of defence lawyer and feminist activist Gisèle Halimi tests the hypothesis that her writings function like one long closing argument in a courtroom, where a passionate ‘I’ fights for Justice not only by making sure that the Law is upheld but, when necessary, trying to change the Law with the weapons authorised by the judicial system—narratives and stories. Each word is at the service of the overall agenda. One of the un…
Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film (review)
Reviewed by: Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film Mireille Rosello Armes, Roy . 2005. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 278 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Readers familiar with Roy Armes's previous books will be on familiar ground as they open Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. They will recognize the author's critical signature, his encyclopedic knowledg…
Elissa Rha s: Scandals, Impostures, Who Owns the Story
The issues of who owns a text and who has a right to be called an author are passionately re-examined whenever a writer's textual practices or public performance of identity are suddenly exposed as deceptive. And when the scandal is generated around a colonial subject (in this case Elissa Rhaïs, either the first Algerian Muslim writer or an impostor), the question of authenticity becomes indistinguishable from the definition of who is a French or…
Laïcité, grammar, fable: Secular Teaching of Secularism
Wanted: Organs, Passports and the Integrity of the Transient's Body
This article focuses on Stephen Frears's 2003 Dirty Pretty Things. I argue that Frears's portrayal of the encounter between a Nigerian man and a Turkish woman in contemporary London invites us to re-conceptualize the relationship between the migrant and the host country. The film invites us to compare the circulation of migrants across a globalized transnational world to organs removed from one body and implanted into another. It questions our us…
"Detective Fiction and "Repentance: Legal Powerlessness and the Power of Narratives
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