The Spectres of James Joyce and Brian Friel Hermeneutic Hauntology, Borders, and Ghost language

Contenu principal de l'article

Virginie Roche-Tiengo

Résumé

Ce chapitre explore la façon dont la notion d’hantologie, développée par Jacques Derrida, imprègne et entrelace les œuvres de James Joyce et de Brian Friel avec la décrépitude mnésique des apparitions évanescentes et polymorphiques de spectres. Il démontre comment les spectres désynchronisent les souvenirs du passé, interrompent toute forme de spécularité et d’échange et traversent des frontières herméneutiques tant chez Joyce que chez Friel. Puis il se concentre sur la façon dont Joyce et Friel entreprennent un voyage qui les conduit vers l’intersectionnalité et l’exil linguistique afin de déterrer un langage fantôme subversif. Et enfin il dévoile l’incursion hantologique de Friel dans l’esprit de Joyce animé par le même désir d’errance et révèle des images semblables d’échos fantomatiques ainsi que des allusions à l’exil, au deuil, à Thanathos et aux lamentations pour les morts.

Details de l'article

Comment citer
Roche-Tiengo, V. (2021). The Spectres of James Joyce and Brian Friel: Hermeneutic Hauntology, Borders, and Ghost language. Imaginaires, (23), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.34929/imaginaires.vi23.25
Rubrique
Articles
Biographie de l'auteur

Virginie Roche-Tiengo, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

Virginie Roche-Tiengo teaches legal English at the University Paris 13, Sorbonne
Paris Cité, France and is Assistant Dean for International and Institutional Relations
in Sorbonne Paris Cité Law Faculty. Following her Ph.D. at the Sorbonne on Lost
Unity: The Poetics of Myth in the Theatre of the Irish Playwright Brian Friel, she has
published on Irish drama, in particular the work of Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy, Frank
McGuinness, and Samuel Beckett. The latest international conference she co-organized
in October 2018 was entitled Crossing Borders: Contemporary Anglophone Theatre
in Europe. The conference aimed to allow academics, translators, publishers and a
wide range of theatre practitioners, to confront their experience with Anglophone theatre throughout Europe. 22 papers from 11 European countries (Czech Republic,
France, Germany, Great-Britain, Greece, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, and
Portugal) were selected and the Play An Irish Story by Kelly Rivière was staged in the
MSH (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) Paris Nord. Virginie Roche-Tiengo is currently
working on the Brian Friel Papers in the National Library of Ireland and in the
archives of NUI Galway as part of a new book project. She is a member of GIS Eire
and GIS Sociability and will be working in the National Archives of London on eighteenth
century Irish playwrights (Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Charles Macklin) in
July 2022. She is involved in the Molière Kansas City 2022 Project in Missouri, USA.
Her research focuses also on law, crossing borders and the Irish stage.