Contenu du sommaire : L'écologie aux Etats-Unis.

The multicultural movement in the United States today is a collective post-Cold War attempt by ethnic minorities to redress long-standing grievances. The Japanese American community constitutes one part of this new political/cultural coalition. This essay describes the historical experiences of this particular ethnic minority in an effort to explain why many Japanese Americans today identify strongly with a social movement calling for the formal recognition of ethnic diversity within the United States and an end to institutionalized racism.

This article examines the phenomena of division and codification into masculin and féminin roles between lesbians during the 50ies in the USA and highlights the part of the given political and social environment in the construction of identity. The author dissociates from the prevailing conception of these phenomena as a reproduction as a heterosexual society and accounts for the masculinity of « hutches » as a straight response to a repressive regime.

In 1982 Paul Auster abandoned poetry and started a new career with the publication o/The Invention of Solitude, a strange volume mixing biography, autobiography and philosophical essay. This article focuses on the way Auster introduces himself in this curious book (which sounds as a real overture to his fiction) brilliantly using the themes of the Father, filiation, inheritance, debt and culpabilility. But beyond those traditional issues (which Auster himself extensively comments on), The Invention of Solitude can be read as a highly personal challenge, combining subjectivation and depersonalization : to create a new man and to give him a pseudonym, Paul Auster.

Poe 's tale, "The Island of the Fay, " is so complex that even multifarious analyses of the text -whether romantic or metafictional, to mention only a few- seem unable to shed light on some of its aspects. A study of the tale in a Deleuzian perspective might prove worthwhile and open up new vistas. The Deleuzian concept of the "other as structure " seems to enable us to probe deeply into the semiotics of the text. Some of the philosophical tools that have been sharpened by Deleuze in Logique du sens prove relevant to focus on the type of narrators Poe often resorts to to forward his literary message and help us tackle the serious question of whether the quest for meaning is jeopardized by Poe's choice to reduce his narrator to a mere metafictional tool.