Imaginaires (ISSN : 2780-1896) is a peer-reviewed and an academic international journal edited by the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherches sur les langues et la pensée (Université de Reims Champagne- Ardenne) and published by Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims (ÉPURe). Imaginaires applies to researchers interested in Cultural Studies.
The journal accepts article submissions online or by e-mail.
Current Issue
No. 24 (2022): Holiday Poetics: Summer Leisure and the Narrative Arts
When considering modern and contemporary summer holidays as a social phenomenon, there might be a temptation to read them solely as a buoyant ramification of late capitalist habits, a garish bourgeois mass entertainment institution as futile and platitudinous as can be, leading to acritical tourism, hypertrophied infrastructural developments, dishonestly overpriced meals, and cheesy events aiming at a shallow carefree amusement. The history and cultural role of this fundamental recurring experience is, however, much more complex and significative than this clichéd portrait might reveal, and its legal birth in the modern age is the result of paramount rights arduously claimed by the European working classes in the interwar period.
Published: 2022-12-12