Modern & Contemporary France

Papers
(The TQCC of Modern & Contemporary France is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emmanuel Macron and the reprojection of the French language11
The paradoxes of the parasite. The qui perd gagne of the human (revisited)9
The politics of imperial memory in France, 1850–19007
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan. A political biography6
Solliciter l’État en tant que migrant des départements d’outre-mer dans l’Hexagone : une analyse des requêtes de migrants des dom entre 1966 et 19815
Bringing back gender and agency into the study of state-organised emigration from the French Caribbean5
Michel Tremblay: plays in Scots, vol. 15
L’institution des revues dans le champ littéraire vietnamien francophone à l’époque coloniale4
Des figures différenciées du « beauf » au cinéma : Franck Dubosc, Gérard Depardieu4
Les Quarante-huitards et les autres. Dictionnaire des diregants de 18484
Going beyond the guerre des mémoires in theatrical representations of the Algerian War4
Bernard Dadié and francophone African travel writing: rereading Un nègre à Paris4
In the footsteps of Flora Tristan a political biography4
France since the Liberation: between exceptionalism and convergence3
Si peu que rien : topophilie et topophobie de la désindustrialisation dans les écrits de Gilles Ortlieb2
The Other Side of Abortion: The Doctor-Writer in Martin Winckler’s La Vacation (1989)2
Rage: affect and resistance in French and Francophone culture and thought, 1968–20202
Crafting memory: literary (Re-)creation in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards2
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics2
Inventing the natural contract2
Le rôle et l’engagement de la France dans la lutte contre les mouvements indépendantistes et d’opposition au Cameroun de 1945 à 1971: rapport de la Commission Franco-Camerounaise2
« Rien qui change la vie » : l’identité lesbienne et l’indifférence dans Play boy de Constance Debré2
Une relation de vie ou de mort2
De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly2
Experimenting with museography: the Musée des Confluences in Lyon1
The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics The Holocaust in French postmodern fiction. Aesthetics, politics, ethics , by Helena Duffy, Camb1
Genre et émancipation des femmes dans la fiction maghrébine contemporaine1
Gender in French banlieue cinema: intersectional perspectives1
Peyi an nou : elevating voices of the BUMIDOM through postmemory and counter-memory1
The deluge: France’s 2024 legislative elections1
Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile1
Developments in French Politics 61
Writing in the ‘alterity industry’: self-reflexivity and satire in Francophone literature1
Signé Michel Serres : the fine print of The Natural Contract1
Unearthing BUMIDOM: the state-organized migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France (1963-1982) as portrayed in recent audiovisual productions1
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible: a genealogy of radical critique in twenty-first-century France1
Le Piège africain de Macron1
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature1
Serres’ textual parasitism and his search for a material language1
L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir: une histoire de la Françafrique1
Exil, déplacement : BUMIDOM hier, migrations économiques d’aujourd’hui ?1
Atlantic bound: writing Afro-Atlantic diasporic consciousness in the works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome1
Solid/taires: féminismes et sororités dans les productions artistiques françaises et francophones1
Marcel Proust aujourd’hui, revue annuelle bilingue/An Annual Bilingual Review, 181
The French care economy: between gendered inequality and feminist idealism1
Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors Queer cinema in contemporary France: five directors , by Todd W. Reeser, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021
Concepts of the world: the French avant-garde and the idea of the international, 1910–19400
Terror. The French Revolution and its Demons0
A short history of the French Revolution , 8th ed.0
The Stora Report0
Looking back on a nation’s struggle: women’s reflections on the Algerian War of liberation0
Late-Colonial French cinema. Filming the Algerian War of Independence0
Riposter à un crime d’Etat. Le rôle méconnu du PSU dans la mobilisation contre la répression de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961 à Paris0
Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics , by Elizabeth Benjamin, Bristol, Peter Lan0
What Ails France0
Neo-orientalisms in Leïla Sebbar’s Métro: instantanés0
L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels0
Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature0
Herminie and Fanny Pereire, elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France0
Commissioning memorial reconciliation: the Stora Report and Algeria’s Ottoman cannon in France0
BUMIDOM, WINDRUSH & BÓTPIPOL: a virtual curation of circular destinies in the Blackened Atlantic0
Digging holes, excavating the present, mining the future: extractivism, time, and memory in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s and Sammy Baloji’s works0
Sovereignty, Europe and republicanism: Euroscepticism at the time of the French referendum on the Treaty of Maastricht, 19920
When the revolution did not look like you thought it would: the Yellow Vest Movement through radical-left activists’ imaginaries0
Graphic narratives of resistance: advocating for representation and social justice in French-language bandes dessinées0
Fertile expectations: the politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France0
Bottom-up democracy, blame and a republican monarch among the ‘déclassés’0
Soukaz in space: visuality, protest and appropriation in the films of Lionel Soukaz0
How to read conspiratorially, or the hatred of theory0
Feminism’s empire0
‘Si je t’étranglais ?’ De la masculinité blessée au fantasme de féminicide chez Roland Dorgelès0
‘They know I know everything’ My life in the eye of relationship between France and Africa0
Clémentine ou la contraception : reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée0
Colonialism devours itself: the waning of Françafrique0
La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma0
Filiations abortives : l’avortement dans la littérature française de l’extrême contemporain0
WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-190
Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ Pater dolorosa0
Interrogating the palimpsest: depictions of enslavement and BUMIDOM in Fabienne Kanor’s D’eaux douces0
Made in France: societal structures and political work Made in France: societal structures and political work , by A. Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020
On flamboyance: refusal and worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir0
Le Corps d’exception. Les artifices du pouvoir colonial et la destruction de la vie0
From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’0
The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire0
Reflections on the 2022 elections in France0
Revolution revisited: Emmanuel Macron and the limits of political change in France0
Abortion in French cinema during the long 1960s and beyond0
To Love is to Act: ‘Les Misérables’ and Victor Hugo’s vision for leading lives of conscience0
Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice Contemporary photography in France: between theory and practice , by Olga Smith, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven 0
Un-layering Greece: imagined classical heritages in French nationalist travel writing0
Princesses, Tomboy s and ‘gender theory’: film, family and school as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars of twenty-first-century France0
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French0
Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France0
An interview with Frédéric Lordon: on communism, agency, Spinoza, and responsibility0
Necrofiction and the politics of literary memory0
Paris isn’t dead yet: surviving gentrification in the city of light0
Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and breaking the ‘glass ceiling’? The 2022 French presidential and parliamentary elections0
Narratives of food insecurity in the penal colony: interpreting memories of ‘slow violence’ in French Guiana and New Caledonia0
On both sides of the tracks: social mobility in contemporary French literature0
Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life Blaise Cendrars: the invention of life , by Eric Robertson, London, Reaktion, 2022, 328 pp., £25.00 (Hardback), ISBN 97817891452050
The fuzzy logics of parasitism: catachresis and prognosis in Michel Serres0
Un sang d’encre : Du corps en littérature contemporaine0
Civilian-led counterterrorism and the carceral state in contemporary French film0
Making sense of the ordinary through discursive practices: a French ‘socio-writing’ turn?0
A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism0
Réinventer la nature: pour une écopoétique des littératures de langue française0
The Routledge handbook of the history of Paris since 17890
Defiantly deviant: the mother who leaves in Love Me Tender (2020)0
Michel Serres’s Le parasite : the noise of the world at work0
The weight of the world0
Between neo-liberalism and the nation: France’s political landscape in 20220
Working through maternal ambivalence: the wake-up call of Chanson douce0
Se sentir moins seule grâce au Manifeste conspirationniste … mais pour aller où ?0
Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition0
Serres’s reading of Tartuffe : hypocrisy and comic underdetermination0
Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty0
Michel Serres and the parasitic unmaking of modernity0
Twenty-first-century symbolism, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé0
Cacaphonies: the excremental canon of French literature0
Paris and the parasite: noise, health, and politics in the media city Paris and the parasite: noise, health, and politics in the media city , by Macs Smith, Cambridge, M0
Les Manufactures de nos rêves: les studios de cinéma français des années 19300
À la recherche de l’homme nouveau – Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911–19370
Making space for the dead: catacombs, cemeteries, and the reimagining of Paris, 1780–18300
The private and political heritage of the Algerian War among French youth0
Les nouvelles histoires : dialoguer avec les sujets et les lieux. Entretien avec Pascal Convert0
The impact of gender on votes for the populist radical rights: Marine Le Pen vs. Eric Zemmour0
« L’usine au milieu des fleurs » et les ouvriers du BUMIDOM : les recrutements de Chrysler à La Réunion (1970–1971)0
Contrôle des corps menstrués des gymnastes françaises en gymnastique rythmique depuis les années 19700
La conscience de Staline. Kojève et la philosophie russe0
Constance Debré et l’a-maternité : habiter un corps impossible0
Il était une fois… le Hirak au pays natal0
The revolting French, 1787–18890
Rachid Bouchareb’s ethical cinema: Louisette and Annie, two women in the Algerian war of independence0
France’s party system in 20220
Correspondance croisée: 1869–1873: Maurice Bouchor, Félix Bourget, Paul Bourget, Georges Hérelle and Adrien Juvigny0
‘La tentation de tout plaquer’: or, the lure of sublimation in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
Rancière’s counter-sociology: politics, history, education0
Time, corporeality and breath: Audrey Diwan’s cinematic aesthetics of abortion in L’événement / Happening (Audrey Diwan, 2021)0
Avortement et sororité chez Diwan, Haroun et Sciamma0
‘Avec Vous?’ Islamophobia and the Macron presidency0
Revolution, melancholy and the limits of constituent power: François Cusset’s À l’abri du déclin du monde (2012)0
La circulation des savoirs occidentaux au Sud-Vietnam postcolonial. Le cas de la Faculté des Lettres de Saigon0
The paradox of laïcité diplomacy: genuinely advocating for ‘universal’ principles?0
Interventions 20200
‘L’esprit de défense’: separatism, counterinsurgency and the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France0
Ah oui, je colle ma wig et j’arrive : a linguistic and contextual analysis of English lexical borrowing on Drag Race France (2022)0
Fighting misogynoir on social media: Rokhaya Diallo’s battle against Pascal Bruckner on Twitter/X0
Turkish–French relations: history, present and the future0
Albert Camus et l’indépendance algérienne : un dialogue différé avec les écrivains algériens (Assia Djebar ; Kamel Daoud)0
Hitler’s French literary afterlives, 1945–20170
En guerre contre l’autre : civilisation et altérité dans Le rivage des Syrtes de Julien Gracq0
Regional dress between tradition and modernity0
I suffer, therefore i am: engaging with empathy in contemporary French women’s writing0
Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world0
Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 20220
Françaises, féministes et musulmanes : l’identité impossible ?0
The endings of empire: reading for the (colonial) plot0
Negotiating Breton Celtic identity on and off the pitch: contemporary football in Brittany0
The Caribbean in translation: remapping thresholds of dislocation0
Correction0
Women moralists in early modern France0
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France0
Invisible chain: breaking the taboo of abortion in Jeanne Caruchet’s L’Ensemencée (1904), Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Audrey Diw0
Vers l’égalité, ou au-delà. Essai sur l’aube du socialisme0
Colonialism devours itself: the waning of Françafrique0
Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan0
The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Algerian War0
The art of directing: a concise dictionary of France’s film directors0
La conversion de Constance Debré. Négativité queer et mysticisme0
For a feminist reading of Julia Ducournau’s Grave0
Drawing (in) the feminine: bande dessinée and women0
Colonial chess pieces? Situating ‘Opération Hmong’ in French Guiana within the wider history and legacy of the BUMIDOM0
L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency0
La Littérature stéthoscope0
Rivals in arms: the rise of UK-France defence relations in the twenty-first century0
Monet, Tchaikovsky, Zola and the world they made0
From the spectacle to the striptease: Beigbeder, Houellebecq and media ambivalence0
Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour entre roman et politique : Parcours croisé0
Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape0
Mes années folles: Révolte et nihilisme du peuple adolescent après Mai 680
Photo-texts from below: collectivist dispatches from the 21st-century French margins0
Confronting the politics of denial0
Pedagogy of the philosophy dissertation in France: paths to freedom, or thèse-antithèse-foutaise?0
Le Grand Débat: the return of the return engagement0
À l’écoute de la guerre : sonorités, affect et violence dans 14 de Jean Echenoz0
Retrouver son corps : entretien avec Constance Debré0
‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous0
Living as writing as living: queer praxis in Constance Debré’s autofictions0
Fictions of race in contemporary French literature: French writers, White writing0
« Annette » de Carax : une fantomachie biographique0
Reading drama in eighteenth-century France0
Welcoming space(s): uprooting French hospitality in the work of Iván Argote0
Between ‘transmission’ and usurpation: (far-)right remapping of European literature0
Fantasies of power: sex, humour and complicities in French rap0
Wither the French left?0
The resilience of the CFA franc: a literature review0
Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association0
Il/legitimate? Annie Ernaux’s contentious path to the Nobel Prize0
L’élection interdite: itinéraire de Joséphine Pencalet, ouvrière bretonne (1886–1972)0
Ni d’ici ni d’ailleurs : l’impossible appartenance de l’immigré maghrébin chez Mouloud Feraoun et Ben Jelloun0
Mind the Ghost: thinking memory and the untimely through contemporary fiction in French0
La Totalité littéraire. Théories et enjeux de la littérature mondiale0
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel0
Francophone Oceania today: literature, visual arts, music and cinema0
Slave revolt on screen, the Haitian revolution in film and video games0
Precarity as a mode of being-in-the-world in Michel Houellebecq’s Possibilité d’une Île0
Afroeuropean mobilities in francophone African crime fiction0
Histoire, bande dessinée et positionnement éthique : présence et fonction narrative du personnage de Pétain dans La Balade nationale (2017) de Sylvain Venayre et Etienne0
Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France Morbid undercurrents: medical subcultures in postrevolutionary France , by Sean Quinlan, Ithaca, Co0
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: peace without reconciliation0
Zemmour contre l’histoire0
Urban bridges, global capitals: trans-Mediterranean Francosphères0
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789–20220
Punk rock théorie: Despentes et la destruction de l’identité0
Defying normativity in Constance Debré’s Love Me Tender0
La loi contre le « séparatisme » : mort et résurrection d’une « justice d’exception »0
France, you love it but leave it: the silent flight of French Muslims0
Rethinking laïcité as a geopolitical concept0
Decolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia0
Barthes et le cinéma-vérité dans le film « La Lutte »0
‘Un livre ce n’est pas une claque’: an introduction to Constance Debré’s works0
Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies0
Récital 19610
‘Je ne crois pas au monde victime-coupable’: an interview with Constance Debré0
The end of the world: Huang Yong Ping’s intermedial art installations0
L’Histoire dans la fiction : de l’anarchive à l’archive0
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