Abstract According to the conclusions of my doctoral dissertation, which dealt with longth-century French literature , there is a significant decline in the number of novels depicting male prostitution from to By considering little-known novels by J. Cuisin, a now forgotten writer of the early 19th century, I intend to better understand how the representations of male prostitution evolved from the libertine fiction of the late 18th century to the realist novel of the s. Following on from his PhD thesis, which focused on literary representations of male prostitutions from to , he is particularly interested in longth-century literatures of French expression, studied in light of Gender, Queer and Sex Work History.
Abstract In this paper, I aim to explore a period of hope for reconciliation between France and Algerian, which have long been studies as an example of dissonant colonial memories plaguing modern state and cultural relations. I argue that not only did the incident involving local, national and transnational actors precipitate a significant cool down in diplomatic relations, it fundamentally changed the discursive construction of colonial violence in both French and Algerian official narratives.
This both had concrete implications for whom and how episodes of colonial violence were remembered, given growing state control over commemorations, as well as their broader national and international audiencing.
I hope to show how discourses about the past have an impact on the viability of memory policies, which profess to help appease and reconcile. Before starting a PhD working across the School of History and the School of Languages at the University of Leeds in , she was a research assistant at the Institute of Race Relations, the London-based antiracist think tank. Her current research focuses on the construction of colonial violence in official discourses of the French and Algerian state.
Lou analyses speeches and public statements of state actors to highlight the maintenance and disruption of particular. Lou also works with civil society actors, to illustrate the reception of official discourses and their contestation.
