La littérature luxembourgeoise à l’école : une didactique interculturelle de la littérature en contexte multilingue

in Transnationale und interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft und Litertaturdidaktik : Konzeptionelle und digitale Transformationen (in press)

In Luxembourg, multilingual requirements are a corollary of the country’s historical trilingualism and characterize its school system: Luxembourgish is the national language, French and German the ... [more ▼]

In Luxembourg, multilingual requirements are a corollary of the country’s historical trilingualism and characterize its school system: Luxembourgish is the national language, French and German the official languages. Like other European countries, English tends to occupy an increasingly important place, as a language taught in secondary school, while Luxembourgish plays only a minor role as a school subject. Rooted in the traditional association of language and literature, Luxembourg’s school environment is still largely organized according to a juxtaposed multilingualism, with clear linguistic separations and specific disciplinary cultures. These characteristics considerably hinder, among others, the entry of works from the Luxembourg literary field into the curricular path of secondary education. In fact, Luxembourgish literature, an essentially multilingual (Luxembourgish, French, German and more recently English, Italian, Portuguese) and small literature, is hardly taught in schools: the national literature struggles to impose itself compared to the cultural references of the large neighboring countries. At the same time, the weak literary production intended for adolescent readers, which translates socio-literarily into the absence of specific editorial collections, finds only a slight echo with its recipients. Starting from this double literary and didactic context, we wish to present our project to publish a novel by a French-language Luxembourg author in a digital format, thus remediatizing the texts, and broadening them with educational content and activities. The development of these new media considers the multilingual and intercultural particularities of Luxembourg’s literary and school environments and targets a readership fond of new reading practices. By adopting a research-action approach, we’d like to cover multiple research areas (multilingual children's literature in a small literary field, digital reading practices, teaching of literary reading in a multilingual school context) and we could integrate the project in our teaching in the Master in Secondary Education to train future teachers. [less ▲]

Conclusion : La parole donnée à la littérature jeunesse

in Peut-on tout leur dire ? Formes de l’indicible en littérature jeunesse (in press)

Espaces (in)sensibles : l’appropriation en didactique comparée

in Actes de colloque des XXIes Rencontres des chercheurs en didactique de la littérature (2023)

Le voyage de Bartlebooth ou le tour de son Monde

in Cahiers Georges Perec (2021), 14

Le dépaysement ou quand tremble l'écriture de Jean Portante

in Thiltges, Sébastian; Solte-Gresser, Christiane (Eds.) Écologie culturelle et cultures écologiques dans la Grande Région (2020)

Portante’s work develops a genuine poetics of space. On the one hand: the geo- graphical space, shaped by the back and forth between the Terres Rouges of Differdange, the host land, and the homeland of ... [more ▼]

Portante’s work develops a genuine poetics of space. On the one hand: the geo- graphical space, shaped by the back and forth between the Terres Rouges of Differdange, the host land, and the homeland of L’Aquila, the trembling land since the earthquake of 2009. On the other hand: the textual space thus generated, shaped by the symbolism of the in-between (French/Italian, fiction/non-fictionnal). The topoi of the earth and the (family) home, correlated to the matrices of the work, the mother tongue and family history, are constantly revisited by the author, and can therefore be re-read under the double prism of ecopoetics and material ecocriticism. The North/South tension (Luxembourg/Italy) can then be considered afresh for its poetic and narrative transformation. This article will thus try to formulate a hypothesis for an ecopoetic reading of Portante’s work centred on the pivot point that constitutes – for both writing and work – the L’Aquila earthquake, which engages the work in a new cycle. This trembling of the writing will then be addressed through the notion of “dépaysement”, in the polysemic richness that offers this term, or even motif: from a literal to a political and poetic meaning. [less ▲]

"Le maillage de l'oeuvre. Avant Propos"

in Glesener, Jeanne; Raus, Tonia (Eds.) Jean Portante. Le travail de l'écriture ou la mémoire à l'oeuvre (2019)

"Portante postmoderne"

in De Toffoli, Ian; Millim, Anne-Marie (Eds.) Modernismes au Luxembourg. Traditions - Variations - Ruptures (2019)

Comprendre la mise en abyme. Arts et médias au second degré.

Book published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2019)

"Du récit d'enfance au roman de l'écrivain: schacko klak de Roger Manderscheid et la Mémoire de la baleine de Jean Portante"

in Les cahiers luxembourgeois (2018), 2

"La partie du tout: Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes / W ou le souvenir d'enfance de Georges Perec"

in Bertrand, Jean-Pierre (Ed.) Roland Barthes: continuités. Cerisy 2016 (2017)