Cette journée d’étude vise à analyser les représentations de l’aventure coloniale et impériale dans les fictions populaires (XIXe-XXe s.). En réunissant des spécialistes de différentes aires culturelles et de divers médias (roman d’aventures, littérature de jeunesse, western…), elle souhaite contribuer à mettre un terme au caractère souvent trop cloisonné des recherches sur la mise en récit du fait colonial.

Programme

9h30 – Accueil café

10h00-12h00 – Panel 1
Pirate, Legionnaire, and Businessman: the Multifaceted Colonial Hero

• From the Barbary Corsairs to the French Foreign Legion: Algeria in two novels by Emilio Salgari
  Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato, Tuscia University
• Business Venture and Risky Shores: South Pacific Adventure Narratives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  Kévin Cristin, Aix Marseille University
• Americanizing Barbarossa: Hollywood and the Rhetoric of Orientalist Abundance during the Cold War
  Sara El Majhad, Aix Marseille University

12h00-14h00 – Déjeuner

14h00-16h30 – Panel 2
Empire in Prints: Imperial Discourse in Popular Publishing

• From colonial events to adventure stories: spectacularization in fiction (1880–1920)
  Sophie Bros, Paris Nanterre University, Poitiers University
• Henry Rider Haggard’s She within the Nouvelles Editions Oswald: Reconfigurations of an Imperial Narrative in 1980s French Edition
  Paule Faggianelli, Paris Nanterre University
• Editorial Policies for Colonial Youth Novels (Germany and France, 1880s–1890s)
  Maxime Boeuf, Aix Marseille University, Haute-Alsace University

16h30 – Pause café

17h00-19h00 – Panel 3
Transnational Westerns: European re-imaginings of the American Frontier

• Alfred Szklarski’s “Tomek Wilmowski” Novels: Adventure, Imperialism and the Polish Postcolonial Paradox
  Marek Paryż, University of Warsaw
• The Temptation of the Western in German Cinema after 1945 in the Light of Gender: Between Escapism and Ideological Mobilisation
  Véronique Dallet-Mann, Aix Marseille University
• The Mexico Western from the United States to France: Transnational Imperial Culture and Local Appropriations
  Hervé Mayer, University of Montpellier Paul Valéry

20h30 – Dîner