Olivia Rosenthal, the last of the Egyptians. A fetishism between the agentivity of objects and the transitionality of language

Author(s)

  • Laurent Demanze UMR Litt&Arts, Centre É.CRI.RE, University of Grenoble Alpes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief13498

Keywords:

Olivia Rosenthal, contemporary literature, documentary literature, material culture, object agentivity, fetish, animal studies, transitionality

Abstract

Olivia Rosenthal's work cultivates savagery and uses animals as both ethical and aesthetic resources. This article would like to use a short text entitled Jouer à chat (2017), published in collaboration with the Musée des Confluences, to question another relationship with animals, made up of passages and transitionality. In this way, the writer goes back in time to reappropriate animist thoughts and requalify language as a source of consolation and exorcism of traumas.

Author Biography

  • Laurent Demanze, UMR Litt&Arts, Centre É.CRI.RE, University of Grenoble Alpes

    A specialist in contemporary literature, Laurent Demanze is professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes since 2018. He is in charge of the É.CRI.RE centre (UMR Litt&Arts). He has published in Critique, Littérature, Études françaises, French Forum, and Contextes. He directs the series "Écritures contemporaines", and co-directs with Marinella Termite the series "Ultracontemporanea" and with Agathe Salha the journal Recherches et travaux. He is the author of five essays published by José Corti; the last one, published in 2021, is titled Pierre Michon, l'envers de l'histoire.

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Published

2022-12-19

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Olivia Rosenthal: literature on the look-out

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2022 Laurent Demanze

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How to Cite

“Olivia Rosenthal, the last of the Egyptians. A fetishism between the agentivity of objects and the transitionality of language” (2022) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 16(2), pp. 78–88. doi:10.51777/relief13498.