TY  - JOUR
A1  - Henk, Lars Thorben
T1  - «We’re on the road to nowhere» – Felwine Sarrs narrativer Weg in die Afrotopie
JF  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - According to the Senegalesian scholar Felwine Sarr who conceives an African utopia in his programmatic essay Afrotopia (2016), this Afrotopos has already germinated in contemporary African literature. However, it still needs to be enquired to what extent the narrated topos of the street in Sarr’s own anthology 105 Rue Carnot (2011) has already realized the Afrotopos. In order to respond to this question, we would like to mobilise Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, which elaborates on the interactions between truth production/knowledge, power and space, and permits us to conceive of «les lieux utopiques» (Foucault 2005: 40) as actually locatable on the map and real other places outside of all places (cf. Foucault 1994: 755). Thus, in the street, a different relationship between global North and South is founded, which becomes legible as an African «utopie localisée» (Foucault 2005: 41) that Sarr calls for in Afrotopia (2016).
KW  - utopia
KW  - heterotopia
KW  - street
KW  - space
KW  - power
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305662
SN  - 2364-6705
VL  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Henk, Lars Thorben
T1  - Édouard Louis’ «J’accuse». Ein spätmoderner Adept Zolas?
JF  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - French history of literature is undoubtedly characterized by a tradition of social criticism portraying the working class’ misery that can be traced back at least to the 19th century. Among these depictions, Zola’s novels have a prominent position. This is, among other aspects, due to their pretended scientific foundation and their pretentious claims to be scientific studies. The contemporary author Édouard Louis situates himself in this tradition of Zola’s naturalism. This invites us to examine the interrelation between Zola and Louis more closely. Based on the common ground of scientific foundation, scientific ambition and social commitment pursued in their novels, it will be demonstrated that Louis is a late-modern Zola whose milieu and character descriptions follow in detail Zola’s constructions.
KW  - Zola
KW  - misery
KW  - literature
KW  - scientific novel
KW  - Louis
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329777
SN  - 2364-6705
VL  - 8
ER  -