The Editors: Helen Vassallo has a B.A. in French and Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool. She went on to obtain an M.A. in Literary Translation and a Ph.D. in Contemporary French Literature from the University of Exeter. She is currently Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter.Paul Cooke has a B.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He has held lecturing posts at LSU College (Southampton) and De Montfort University (Leicester). He is currently Associate Professor in French at the University of Exeter.

• Contents: Helen Vassallo/Paul Cooke: Introduction – Owen Heathcote: Queer Nation, Queer Alienation? Avatars of Monsieur Vénus – Oliver Davis: Guillaume Dustan’s ‘autopornobiographie’: Is There Room for Trash in the Queer Subcultural Archive? – Brigitte Rollet : Altérité textuelle et sexuelle ? Le cinéma populaire français contemporain et l’homosexualité – Andrew Asibong: Viral Women: Singular, Collective and Progressive Infection in Hiroshima mon amour, Les Yeux sans visage and Trouble Every Day – Martin Hurcombe: Back to Spain: Commitment in Crisis in Four French Novels of the Spanish Civil War (1958-1962) – Eva Pich-Ponce : Aliénation ou la recherche de l’altérité dans Un Joualonais sa Joualonie de Marie-Claire Blais – John Kristian Sanaker/David-Alexandre Wagner : Hétérolinguisme filmique : l’exemple du cinéma de banlieue – Nicole Fayard: ‘Faire parler ces femmes […] les libérer. Parce que dans les quartiers, on ne dit rien’: Alienation, Sexual Violence and Textual Survival in the Work of Jamila Aït-Abbas, Samira Bellil, Leila and Loubna Méliane – Fiona Handyside: The Margins Don’t Have to Be Marginal: The banlieue in the Films of Eric Rohmer – Benjamin Andréo : ‘Exercices d’exorcisme’ : les sorts et glossolalies artaldiens ou la pragmatique de l’altérité – Louise Hardwick: ‘Est-ce cela être « aliéné» ?’ Alienation in Maryse Condé’s Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer – Kate Roy: A Multiple Otherness: Beginning with Difference in the Writing of Leïla Sebbar – Jeanne Hyvrard : Penser l’aliénation et l’altérité.

The Editors: Helen Vassallo has a B.A. in French and Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool. She went on to obtain an M.A. in Literary Translation and a Ph.D. in Contemporary French Literature from the University of Exeter. She is currently Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter.Paul Cooke has a B.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He has held lecturing posts at LSU College (Southampton) and De Montfort University (Leicester). He is currently Associate Professor in French at the University of Exeter.

• Contents: Helen Vassallo/Paul Cooke: Introduction – Owen Heathcote: Queer Nation, Queer Alienation? Avatars of Monsieur Vénus – Oliver Davis: Guillaume Dustan’s ‘autopornobiographie’: Is There Room for Trash in the Queer Subcultural Archive? – Brigitte Rollet : Altérité textuelle et sexuelle ? Le cinéma populaire français contemporain et l’homosexualité – Andrew Asibong: Viral Women: Singular, Collective and Progressive Infection in Hiroshima mon amour, Les Yeux sans visage and Trouble Every Day – Martin Hurcombe: Back to Spain: Commitment in Crisis in Four French Novels of the Spanish Civil War (1958-1962) – Eva Pich-Ponce : Aliénation ou la recherche de l’altérité dans Un Joualonais sa Joualonie de Marie-Claire Blais – John Kristian Sanaker/David-Alexandre Wagner : Hétérolinguisme filmique : l’exemple du cinéma de banlieue – Nicole Fayard: ‘Faire parler ces femmes […] les libérer. Parce que dans les quartiers, on ne dit rien’: Alienation, Sexual Violence and Textual Survival in the Work of Jamila Aït-Abbas, Samira Bellil, Leila and Loubna Méliane – Fiona Handyside: The Margins Don’t Have to Be Marginal: The banlieue in the Films of Eric Rohmer – Benjamin Andréo : ‘Exercices d’exorcisme’ : les sorts et glossolalies artaldiens ou la pragmatique de l’altérité – Louise Hardwick: ‘Est-ce cela être « aliéné» ?’ Alienation in Maryse Condé’s Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer – Kate Roy: A Multiple Otherness: Beginning with Difference in the Writing of Leïla Sebbar – Jeanne Hyvrard : Penser l’aliénation et l’altérité.

The Editors: Helen Vassallo has a B.A. in French and Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool. She went on to obtain an M.A. in Literary Translation and a Ph.D. in Contemporary French Literature from the University of Exeter. She is currently Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter.Paul Cooke has a B.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He has held lecturing posts at LSU College (Southampton) and De Montfort University (Leicester). He is currently Associate Professor in French at the University of Exeter.

• Contents: Helen Vassallo/Paul Cooke: Introduction – Owen Heathcote: Queer Nation, Queer Alienation? Avatars of Monsieur Vénus – Oliver Davis: Guillaume Dustan’s ‘autopornobiographie’: Is There Room for Trash in the Queer Subcultural Archive? – Brigitte Rollet : Altérité textuelle et sexuelle ? Le cinéma populaire français contemporain et l’homosexualité – Andrew Asibong: Viral Women: Singular, Collective and Progressive Infection in Hiroshima mon amour, Les Yeux sans visage and Trouble Every Day – Martin Hurcombe: Back to Spain: Commitment in Crisis in Four French Novels of the Spanish Civil War (1958-1962) – Eva Pich-Ponce : Aliénation ou la recherche de l’altérité dans Un Joualonais sa Joualonie de Marie-Claire Blais – John Kristian Sanaker/David-Alexandre Wagner : Hétérolinguisme filmique : l’exemple du cinéma de banlieue – Nicole Fayard: ‘Faire parler ces femmes […] les libérer. Parce que dans les quartiers, on ne dit rien’: Alienation, Sexual Violence and Textual Survival in the Work of Jamila Aït-Abbas, Samira Bellil, Leila and Loubna Méliane – Fiona Handyside: The Margins Don’t Have to Be Marginal: The banlieue in the Films of Eric Rohmer – Benjamin Andréo : ‘Exercices d’exorcisme’ : les sorts et glossolalies artaldiens ou la pragmatique de l’altérité – Louise Hardwick: ‘Est-ce cela être « aliéné» ?’ Alienation in Maryse Condé’s Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer – Kate Roy: A Multiple Otherness: Beginning with Difference in the Writing of Leïla Sebbar – Jeanne Hyvrard : Penser l’aliénation et l’altérité.