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La Clé des langues s’adresse aux enseignants et formateurs cherchant des ressources validées par un comité scientifique, aux étudiants en études anglophones ou en didactique des langues, et aux chercheurs et curieux de culture et littérature anglophone. Les publications 2025 couvrent un large éventail de thématiques liées à la langue, la littérature, la civilisation et la culture anglophone.
| Titre | Résumé | Auteur/autrice | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Names and naming dynamics in Damon Galgut’s The Promise (2021): a mirror of South African history? | In 2021, the South African novelist and playwright Damon Galgut was awarded the Booker Prize for The Promise. This novel indirectly addresses the inheritances of the Apartheid system through the dislocation of an Afrikaner family from Pretoria over four decades. Focusing on onomastics, this paper analyses names as indicative of personality traits and relationships between characters. It then examines the power of names and of the act of naming in relation to the history of South Africa. | Benoîte Gottiniaux | Fiche |
| Fearing the passions of women. Female desire and sexuality in the nineteenth century | Although the 18th century has often been characterised as a libertine age, the Victorian era is frequently remembered for its strict moral codes, social conservatism, and sexual repression, particularly concerning women’s sexuality. This paper examines 19th-century attitudes toward female sexuality, highlighting the interplay between the fear it elicited and class dynamics, the prevailing double standards of morality, and the emergence of the New Woman. It also critically addresses the tensions between ideology and reality, prescription and behaviour, as well as the discrepancies between public adherence to discourse and private conduct. | Véronique Molinari | Article |
| Trends and new departures in the historiography of British protest movements (1811-1914) | Rachel Rogers outlines in this talk the beginnings of the « new social history », a field of history which came to prominence after the Second World War and endeavoured to bring the actions of men and women within social and political movements to light. She then provides an overview of the main trends in the historiography of protest studies, and concludes by presenting some of the approaches which historians have adopted in the last two decades. | Rachel Rogers | Conférence |
| The Terror of Desire in Victorian Visual Art | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood frequently represented desire through the figure of the prostitute, be it in a realistic British context or, more frequently, in an eroticised and exoticised recreation of the harem in the Oriental present or ancient times. Resorting to biblical or mythological figures was another subterfuge used by Pre-Raphaelite painters to tackle this sulphurous subject thanks to the representation of desiring male characters, such as Pygmalion, or female heroines ranging from a pure, chaste embodiment of desire to a more overtly erotic incarnation with the temptress. These representations were a way for the artists of the period to project onto the canvas their sublimated desire for their muses which could lead them to frantic periods of creation or despondency. Moreover, 19th-century paintings often staged men who were confronted to a stifling, even “strangling”, representation of desire. | Virginie Thomas | Fiche |
| De l’usage de métaphores pour dénoncer le consumérisme : analyse de la TEDx Talk « I Wore all my Trash for 30 Days » de Robin Greenfield | Cet article se propose d’explorer trois métaphores sur lesquelles la TEDx Talk de Robin Greenfield « I Wore all my Trash for 30 Days » repose et qui permettent de véhiculer une critique de la société de consommation, tout en amenant les spectateurs (présents ou à distance) à repenser leur vision de leur consommation et de son impact sur l’environnement. Le présent article est une version abrégée et retravaillée d’une partie d’un article scientifique à paraître, dans un numéro spécial sur l’écolinguistique, de la revue Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies. | Florence Floquet | Article |
| Smiling as Labour in the Work of Jean Rhys | In this talk, Emily Ridge focuses on the intersections between emotion and work. She defines smiling as a mode of labour in and of itself and analyses different forms of emotional labour in Jean Rhys’s work. | Emily Ridge | Conférence |
| Absence in Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) | In many ways, The Death of Vivek Oji by Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi both resists and subverts well-defined labels. At the crossroads between mystery fiction and the Bildungsroman, the novel paradoxically gives centre stage to the absence of the eponymous protagonist, whose enigmatic death is announced in the title. Yet, just as Vivek transgresses traditional, heteronormative gender boundaries, the narrative, too, blurs usual dichotomies. This paper examines the subversion of the boundary between presence and absence in the novel, through which Emezi sheds light on the systemic erasure of queer individuals while using the literary medium as a political space of re-presentation. | Alexandra Savard-Chambard | Fiche |
| “These Holy Idiots”: Violence and Christianity in Marlon James’s John Crow’s Devil (2005) | In his debut novel, John Crow’s Devil (2005), Jamaican author Marlon James portrays the violent rise to fanaticism of an entire community. The book tells the story of the fictional Jamaican town of Gibbeah and the biblical battle that opposes Pastor Hector Bligh to Apostle York, a fire-breathing stranger who takes over the congregation. James’s novel stages the powerful influence of Christianity and its rhetoric in legitimating and urging uninhibited violence. By depicting the apocalyptic reckoning that falls on Gibbeah, the book addresses themes of gender and sexual brutality and questions the ease with which charismatic leadership can substitute rational thought in working-class communities. | Emma Cottrel | Fiche |
| Colonization and koinéization: On the emergence of North American English | Although English spoken in North America derives from English spoken in the British Isles, it has become a separate variety that is easily distinguishable from British English varieties. However, unlike its British counterparts, North American English is relatively uniform, with much less regional variation, despite spanning a larger geographical area. This paper has two aims: firstly, to account for the development of English in North America from a socio-historical perspective, by looking at the complex colonial history of this part of the American continent. | Marc-Philippe Brunet | Article |
| “They are Blind to Mahmood Hussein Mattan”: Exposing Institutional Racism in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men | In The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed proposes a fictional account of the 1952 Mattan case, in which Mahmood Mattan, a Somali merchant seaman, was wrongly condemned and executed for the murder of a woman in Cardiff. Through the medium of the novel, the author insists on Mahmood’s agency and dignity in the face of a dehumanizing judicial system, thereby exposing the racism that pervades British institutions. | Pauline Tauzin | Fiche |
| Ni héros, ni victimes : portraits de travailleurs manuels dans la littérature indienne contemporaine | À travers les exemples de A Free Man (2011) d’Aman Sethi et Bicycle Dreaming (2016) de Mridula Koshy, Vanessa Guignery analyse comment la littérature indienne peut représenter les populations défavorisées, tout en évitant les récits d’abjection et d’émancipation. | Vanessa Guignery | Conférence |
| Les limites de l’interculturalité : enjeux éthiques et esthétiques dans Girl (2019) d’Edna O’Brien | Le dernier roman d’Edna O’Brien, Girl (2019), pose la question postcoloniale de la légitimité : qui a le droit d’écrire, et sur quoi ? Dans cette présentation, Fiona McCann montre comment le roman repousse les limites de l’écriture irlandaise et interculturelle, ainsi que la limite entre la fiction et les faits réels. | Fiona McCann | Conférence |
| Quand il faut choisir une langue : les poètes de la Caraïbe anglophone | Comment et pourquoi les poètes de la Caraïbe anglophone choisissent-ils une langue plutôt qu’une autre comme outil poétique ? L’anglais de la Reine est-il nécessairement un instrument de domination ? La production littéraire en créole est-elle forcément émancipatrice ? Corentin Jégou propose dans cette conférence d’étudier les enjeux qui président au choix d’une langue à travers les exemples de plusieurs poètes de la Caraïbe anglophone. | Corentin Jégou | Conférence |
| « I wish to record and interpret the presence of human absence »: an interview with Michael Kenna | In this interview, English photographer Michael Kenna looks back on his fifty years of photographic work which has focused on the juxtaposition and confrontation between the natural world and structures built by humans. | Michael Kenna, Virginie Thomas | Entretien |
| State-of-the-nation novels: debunking nationalism | This article aims to offer a detailed overview of the state-of-the-nation genre, with examples from 20th- and 21st-century novels. It outlines its historical lineage, by showing how 19th-century Condition-of-England novels and their focus on the discrepancies between the working and political classes are at the origin of this new genre. State-of-the-nation novels both address and move away from this issue, as they forge a critique of nationalist discourse. While nationalism aims at glossing over tensions and providing coherence between the individual and the collective, state-of-the-nation novels open up the wounds left by historical events, exposing how societal and political decisions threaten the very concept of the nation. | Alice Borrego | Article |
| L’anglais américain dans tous ses états | Dans une perspective comparative avec l’anglais britannique, Olivier Glain et Vincent Hugou présentent dans cette étude les particularismes de l’anglais américain. L’anglais américain dans tous ses états est composé de cinq chapitres, consacrés à l’histoire de l’anglais américain, à son système phonologique, à ses phénomènes phonétiques, ainsi qu’aux spécificités de son lexique et de son orthographe. | Olivier Glain, Vincent Hugou | Manuel |
| Les États-Unis sont-ils toujours une démocratie ? | Dans le cadre de l’événement « Célébrer l’indépendance des États-Unis en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes », organisé par la DRAREIC de l’Académie de Lyon, Hugo Toudic a donné deux conférences sur la situation politique aux États-Unis et l’influence de Montesquieu sur le système politique et institutionnel américain. | Hugo Toudic | Conférence |
| Multilingualism in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (2017) | In her second novel Pachinko, Min Jin Lee narrates the life of a Korean family who immigrated to Japan. Three languages—English, Korean and Japanese—intertwine and clash in this chronicle of multilingual societies and families. Contrasting linguistic uses and perceptions underline the complexity of identity formation and the challenge of achieving a sense of belonging. | Lison Brault | Fiche |
| Donald Trump et le vote des femmes évangéliques blanches | Cette fiche analyse le soutien des femmes évangéliques blanches à Donald Trump, particulièrement à l’occasion de l’élection présidentielle de 2024, malgré ses positions antiféministes. Nous proposons d’étudier ce phénomène à travers la socialisation genrée dans les milieux évangéliques, où les femmes sont encouragées à adopter des rôles traditionnels de soumission et de domesticité. Trump incarne par ailleurs un idéal de masculinité virile valorisé par cette communauté et renforcé par des stratégies politiques ciblées. Ce soutien s’inscrit enfin dans une alliance historique entre les évangéliques blanc·hes et le parti républicain, motivée par des enjeux moraux, économiques et sociaux. | Louise Chabanel | Fiche |
| Stepping out of the Frame: Re-visioning the Slave Narrative in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress (1999) | In his novel A Harlot’s Progress, David Dabydeen reimagines William Hogarth’s eponymous series of engravings by giving a voice to Mungo, a young black servant marginalised in the original artwork. The novel challenges the conventions of slave narratives by presenting a fragmented, circular, and polyphonic narrative. By subverting the reader’s expectations and reimagining the framework of testimony, David Dabydeen questions the transparency of representation, the reliability of memory, and the legitimacy of the storyteller, while emphasising the power of fiction to bear witness to the traumas of the Atlantic slave trade. | Élise Tendron | Fiche |
| Orientalized and disoriented identities in The Parisian (2019) by Isabella Hammad | In her debut novel The Parisian, Isabella Hammad narrates the life story of Midhat Kamal and his family in Nablus, during a pivotal period when Palestinian territory transitions from Ottoman rule to British control. Through Midhat’s journey to France and back to Nablus in 1919, this Bildungsroman explores the feeling of inadequacy experienced by the protagonist, whose sense of belonging is constantly challenged. As the political situation comes to a boil, the novel explores the fragmentation of both national and familial identities. | Blandine Colas | Fiche |
| The Soweto Massacre of 1976: Youth Resistance, Apartheid Education, and Its Lasting Legacy | The Soweto Massacre of June 16, 1976, was a protest led by black school children against the apartheid government’s imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in black schools. Thousands of pupils where marching peacefully in the Soweto township when the police opened fire, killing hundreds and sparking nationwide unrest. The massacre marked a turning point in South Africa’s liberation struggle and drew global attention to the brutality of apartheid. | Reda Boulkhiam | Question d’actualité |
| Male Gaze and the Monstrous Pursuit of Perfection in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024) | The Substance is a grotesque and satirical body horror film that reimagines Hollywood’s obsession with youth and beauty through the tragic story of Elisabeth Sparkle, an aging TV star who uses an experimental drug to create a younger version of herself. This article examines how the film critiques the male gaze by portraying the female body as a site of performance, commodification, and ultimately, monstrosity. Drawing on Laura Mulvey’s theory on the male gaze, it explores how director Coralie Fargeat weaponizes cinematic style to both expose and parody the objectification of women in the film industry, turning horror into an act of feminist commentary. | Reda Boulkhiam | Fiche |
| Beyond the Damsel in Distress: The Evolution of Female Representation in American Horror films | This article examines the evolution of the portrayal of women in American horror films. Far from static, female representation in horror has undergone a dramatic transformation, evolving from the subversive and complex figures of the silent era, to the helpless, moralized victims of the Hays Code period, to the emergence of the Final Girl trope in the 1960s and 70s, a figure who both upholds and disrupts patriarchal norms. The 1980s and 90s brought a new wave of seemingly empowered women, yet these characters often remained trapped in hypersexualized or binary roles. | Reda Boulkhiam | Fiche |
| Les femmes dans la Révolution américaine | Dans le cadre de l’événement « Célébrer l’indépendance des États-Unis en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes », organisé par la DRAREIC de l’Académie de Lyon, Agnès Delahaye met en lumière le rôle des femmes dans la Révolution américaine. | Agnès Delahaye | Conférence |
| Commemorating the story of independence: French and American representations of the American Revolution and independence | As part of the event “Celebrating US Independence in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes”, organized by the DRAREIC of the Académie de Lyon, Aurore Portet analyses the ways archetypes are created through visual representation and the three waves of pictorial representations of the American Revolution. | Aurore Portet | Conférence |
| E Ancipite Unum? Some ambiguities behind the birth of the United States of America | As part of the event “Celebrating US Independence in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,” organized by the DRAREIC of the Académie de Lyon, Guillaume Odin highlights in this lecture the multiple ambiguities behind the birth of the United States of America, from the Revolutionary War of 1775-1783 to the Civil War of 1861-1865, and the westward expansion of the 19th century. | Guillaume Odin | Conférence |
| Shakespeare, his life, his time and his work | As part of the training programme « Approfondir ses connaissances – Enseignement de spécialité Anglais LLCER » organized by the EAFC in Grenoble, this lecture gives an overview of Shakespeare’s career as a playwright and the way he used prose and poetry in his plays. This talk also highlights a few examples of contemporary adaptations of the Shakespearean canon. | Estelle Rivier-Arnaud | Conférence |
| Le Premier Amendement de la Constitution des États-Unis : les libertés contre l’État | Dans le cadre de l’événement « Célébrer l’indépendance des États-Unis en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes », organisé par la DRAREIC de l’Académie de Lyon, Vincent Michelot détaille les tensions qui existent entre la fragilité des libertés aux États-Unis et le potentiel libérateur que recèle la Constitution. | Vincent Michelot | Conférence |
| Le sublime industriel dans l’œuvre de Michael Kenna : entre éthique et esthétique | La représentation du monde industriel tient une grande place dans l’art du photographe britannique Michael Kenna, qui nous conduit sur des sites variés, de la Grande-Bretagne aux États-Unis et plus récemment en Italie. Ses photographies déshumanisées, pour la plupart, nous amènent à nous interroger sur la tension qui s’exerce entre le défi éthique lié à la pollution industrielle et la sublimation esthétique de cette menace environnementale. La représentation de la nature et, plus particulièrement des arbres, devient alors un espace salutaire dans sa démarche artistique. | Virginie Thomas | Fiche |
| Citizenship, Immigration and Human Rights in the Age of Trump | In her presentation, Amanda Frost discusses the revocation of student visas, the use of the Alien Enemies Act (1798) for law enforcement purposes, and the Trump administration’s campaign to revoke citizenship in order to provide a broader overview of the state of civil liberties in the United States today. | Amanda Frost | Conférence |
| « A deliberate breaking of the rhythm of things » : Écriture moderniste et rapports amoureux chez William Faulkner | Cet article étudie la façon dont Faulkner expérimente et développe des techniques modernistes en représentant les rapports amoureux dans sa fiction des années 1920. Dès son premier roman, Soldiers’ Pay, Faulkner construit une écriture du désir à partir des techniques de représentation de la guerre moderne. Cette écriture amoureuse du traumatisme, qui permet d’exprimer toute la complexité des amours faulknériennes, entre fascination, dégoût et tragédie, est affinée dans Flags in the Dust et culmine dans The Sound and The Fury, où la fragmentation du récit est combinée à l’association d’idées pour rendre l’obsession amoureuse. | Astrid Maes | Article |
| Blindness in (post)colonial settings: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion (2005) | Desertion (2005) by Zanzibari writer Abdulrazak Gurnah traces the consequences of a relationship in the late 19th century between a European man, Martin Pearce, and a Zanzibari woman, Rehana, when, decades later, a character named Amin falls in love with Rehana’s granddaughter, Jamila. In the novel, the underlying theme of blindness connects geographical locations (Zanzibar and England) and temporal settings (colonial and postcolonial Zanzibar), highlights how the material body entangles with the body politic and acts as a metanarrative tool to subvert colonial writing. | Inès Roche | Fiche |
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Publications de la Clé anglaise en 2025, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), décembre 2025. Consulté le 08/01/2026. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/publications-de-la-cle-anglaise-en-2025