The Uncanniness of the Ordinary: Aesthetic Implications of Stanley Cavell’s Rethinking of Das Unheimliche by Gineprini Lorenzo

“…At the same time, they also propose a novelty by interpreting the uncanny not as inherently frightening and disturbing but as a compelling affective state that encourages a willingness to reappropriate and rediscover the ordinary.…”
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De la migration au dévoilement du multiple : une poétique de l’altérité et d’universalité dans L’Enfant Multiple d’André Chédid by Daouda SYLLA

“…Ainsi, en postulant que L’Enfant Multiple est une immersion dans la question migratoire, la contribution voudrait montrer que l’écrivaine se réapproprie cette esthétique novatrice pour s’interroger sur la condition humaine, tout en prônant le vivre-ensemble, la diversité, l’ouverture vers l’Autre et l’altérité. …”
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Carla Lonzi’s Wardrobe by Leonardo Campagna

“…However, on many occasions, feminists have reappropriated and resemantized the domestic practices of knitting, sewing and embroidery, conceptualizing them as different ways to think about politics, community, the self, and relationality. …”
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Time and memory in Carthage by Das, N

“…Using a range of material from Virgil's Aeneid to medieval and Renaissance visual depictions of Carthage, this essay attends to the strange tricks that the city of Carthage plays with both time and space, both in the Roman imagination, and in the early modern world – opening up spaces of conversation and alterity that survived even as the city's architectural space was destroyed, reappropriated, rebuilt, and reimagined.…”

Nationhood and the (De)Construction of Mythical England in Ben Wheatley’s Kill List by Diana Ortega Martin

“…This article analyses how Wheatley’s 2011 Kill List reappropriates Arthurian mythology by subverting its usual purpose of reaffirming a hegemonic sense of nationhood. …”
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Evoluzione e persistenza dell’iconografia di Primo Carnera nella cultura popolare italiana: mitopoiesi plebea e propaganda fascista by Roberto Mottadelli

“…In the end, the essay shows how the figure of Carnera regained favour after the fall of the fascist regime reappropriating (or, more rarely, being distorted of) its original traits. …”
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Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. : le Moyen Âge aux origines by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…In a nation in quest for roots, ancestors and legacy, the memory of the Middle Ages is a major issue; it is a founding period which the United States strives to reappropriate. Indeed the narrator’s pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, hints at an implicit claim of lineage with Geoffrey Chaucer, whose presence frames The Sketch Book. …”
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Enoch Powell’s Contribution Within the One Nation Group (1950-1955): Towards a Proto-Thatcherite Appropriation of One Nation Conservatism? by Stéphane Porion

“…Their strategy was to produce a number of pamphlets while reappropriating the rhetoric, myth and legacy of Disraeli to promote One Nation Conservatism. …”
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Neither here nor there: exploring the transnational identity of West African migrants living in South Africa by Ijeoma Opara

“…The concept explored in this article is ‘West-a-phobia’, coined by Petkou (2005) when conducting his PhD research on West African migrants living in Johannesburg, South Africa. By reappropriating Petkou’s concept through a transnational theoretical framework, this article delves into the experience of six West African migrants living in South Africa over a long period to analyse how systemic and covert forms of othering manifest within the post-apartheid context. …”
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Contested Authenticity Anthropological Perspectives of Pilgrimage Tourism on Mount Athos by Michelangelo Paganopoulos

“…The paper shows how the traditional value of hospitality is being reinvented and reappropriated according to the personalized needs of the market of faith. …”
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L’urgence de réveil de l’héritage de Lumumba pour une gouvernance d’espérance en Afrique by Phidias A. SENGE MILEMBA

“…Motivant et inspirant, l’héritage de Lumumba mérite d’être réapproprié et renouvelé comme un levier de « souverainisation » et de libération du Congo et de l’Afrique. …”
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Stylistic hybridity in palatial architecture during the reign of King Rama V: a postcolonial reinterpretation on modern Siam by Koompong Noobanjong

“…Aside from examining the three hybrid Siamese-European buildings beyond stylistic analyses and antiquarian mode of historiography, the upcoming discussions unveiled that the case studies – which were commissioned at the height of Western colonial expansions in Southeast Asia – testified for the Siamese’s: (1) reinterpretations, reappropriations, and recreations of European cultural artifacts; (2) active and authoritative roles in generating, combining, and projecting their versions of contested meanings upon the immediate world and beyond; (3) assertions of a newly acquired self-image by conspicuous consumptions of Western material culture; and (4) long established tradition of mediating power through built forms. …”
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Le jeu de la crosse : des pratiques amérindiennes aux sports codifiés by Jean-Pierre AUGUSTIN

“…Le jeu de la crosse est exemplaire de ces rites et savoirs amérindiens qui sont observés, récupérés, réappropriés, codifiés en sport normalisés. Sa transformation peut être présentée comme un exemple de résistance au processus global d’acculturation qui impose une conception mono-culturelle du sport fondée sur la professionnalisation et la médiatisation des sports dominants, et pour le Canada, du hockey sur glace.…”
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Neither here nor there: exploring the transnational identity of West African migrants living in South Africa by Ijeoma Opara

“…The concept explored in this article is ‘West-a-phobia’, coined by Petkou (2005) when conducting his PhD research on West African migrants living in Johannesburg, South Africa. By reappropriating Petkou’s concept through a transnational theoretical framework, this article delves into the experience of six West African migrants living in South Africa over a long period to analyse how systemic and covert forms of othering manifest within the post-apartheid context. …”
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Par delà les clichés. Des représentations de la femme dans le roman sentimental d'Afrique francophone by Dahiée Marcelle Gnepoa

“…D’autre part, l’article présente les différentes réappropriations du roman sentimental. Ainsi, ces représentations de la femme permettent de fidéliser un lectorat féminin qui, par sa pratique de lecture et d’écriture, donne une certaine légitimité à des textes qui sont souvent rangés dans la marge de la littérature canonique. …”
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Adaptive Ephemeral Interiority: Upcycling Site Specific Interiors by Marco Sosa, Lina Ahmad, Karim Musfy

“…Adaptive reuse in architecture refers to the process of redesigning, converting, and reappropriating existing spaces for functions different from the ones they were originally designed for. …”
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L’adaptation du Rapport de Brodeck : une figuration fidèle à l’original by Julie Corsin

“…Pour réaliser cette étude, il est nécessaire d’avoir recours à la théorie de Benoît Berthou sur la figuration : il s’agit d’une forme d’adaptation où l’auteur tire parti des dimensions visuelles d’une œuvre afin d’en exprimer une nouvelle vision et ainsi de se la réapproprier. L’ouvrage adapté acquiert alors un nouveau statut de création autonome et originale. …”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…Although the text explicitly reappropriates the Panopticon designed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an invention itself riven by the tension between utopia and dystopia, and echoes Michel Foucault’s strategic reading in Discipline and Punish (1975), the virulent critique it levels at the welfare state echoes some of the central issues to be found in George Orwell's attack on totalitarian states, particularly those related to memory and language. …”
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Le silence de la femme insulaire dans L’arbre fouet d’Ananda Devi et dans Celles qui attendent de Fatou Diome by Thila Sunassee-Thapermall

“…Cet article étudie les lieux du silence où la femme se réapproprie son pouvoir face aux entraves de la société et de l’espace géographique. …”
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The Normative World of Memes: Political Communication Strategies in the United States and Ecuador by Marco López-Paredes, Andrea Carrillo-Andrade

“…In this context, this paper <i>examines</i><i>how citizens from Ecuador and the United States reappropriate memes during a public discussion?</i> The investigation is based on multimodal analysis and compares the most popular memes among the United States and Ecuador produced during the candidate debate (Trump vs. …”
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