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De la violence, F. Héritier (dir.), Paris, Odile Jacob, 1996, p. 273-323. 38 Voir Bruneteau, p. 22, citant : L. Kuper, A. L. Hinton (dir.), Genocide. An Anthropological Reader, Malden-Oxford, Blackwell, 2002 ; M. Levene, « The changing face of mass-murder. An Ottoman case study », Revue internationale des sciences sociales, no 174, décembre 2002, et « Why is the 20th century the century of genocide ? », Journal of World History, 11 (2), 2000 ; J. Sémelin, « Analyser le massacre », art. cité. 39 P

ab-normal-ities: anormalités 8 a) réserves b) jumeaux c) tremblante 9 insulated (l. 18) • scurried (l. 22) 10 – 1: “one egg, one embryo, one adult-normality” (l. 26) – 96: number of buds which will develop into human beings – millions: identical twins 11 mass production (l. 32) U N IT 4 • 81 UNIT 4 BRAVE NEW WORLD? ACTION! 1 The Director is leading a group on a tour of the facilities. He presents it like a production factory, and introduces his new scientific breakthrough to the newly arrived students

d'écrivains. What can we do ? At their best, there is gentleness in Humanity. some understanding and, at times, acts of courage but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn't have too much. it is like a large animal deep in sleep and almost nothing can awaken it. when activated it's best at brutality, selfishness, unjust judgments, murder. what can we do with it, this Humanity? nothing. avoid the thing as much as possible. treat it as you would anything poisonous, vicious and

face with eagerness wiped out. Groping he’d lost the beauty of the thing – As shells half-filled with water on a beach Lose all the blue and sparkle of the sea ! 123 121 122 123 O hear me grieving as I pass On these unending roads that mass New burdens as they run ! With velvet this autumnal night Will mantle waning day. What black can cover up the sight Of gaping grief, or smooth this white Inevitable way ? 124 Close built in loneliness and doubt, Each self within its wall Pitifully

death would cause inconvenience to no one—unless him dead on dem property. In this loneliness, he longed for his grandmother. (NTH 44) By the end of the novel, Creole words stand with equal weight and in stark contrast to the public record of the murders provided by The Gleaner, Kingston’s daily newspaper. But not even able to read the headlines that accuse him of being involved in a satanic cult and having an affair with the Afro-Caribbean maid he killed, Christopher remains hopelessly outside social

had become a symbol of resistance that dominated international headlines. (U) Description of the Battle (U) On 4 April 2004, I MEF began Operation VIGILANT RESOLVE to deny insurgents a sanctuary in Fallujah and arrest those responsible for the murders of American civilians. The concept of operation included 3 phases: Page 4 SECRET//NOFORN//20310306 SECRET//NOFORN//20310306 • (S//REL TO USA, MCFI) Shaping operations (including IO). • (S//REL TO USA, MCFI) Decisive combat operations. • (S//REL

argued that the State was responsible for it. It showed that federal authorities were changing. II. New Black Voices Before the war, there had been a few actions taken (such as the creation of the NAACP) yet the fight for equality was not a mass movement. For the first time, Black people had manifested massively, new form of black militancy was rising. They realized they could improve their condition. The NAACP membership rose from 5,000 in 1940 to 450,000 in 1944. An increasing number of

he was eventually to share a meal with him is a daring statement of his willingness to let his friendship override his upbringing. Tagore also satirizes traditional beliefs by suggesting that as a boy he believed the eating of beef to be worse than murder. Traditional cow veneration has strongly prohibited the eating of beef by Hindus for millennia. Readers should note the clash of bigotries, with the boys scorning Sachish’s disbelief while they condemn the racism of their teacher. Like another famous

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social status. But literature cannot be reduced to this conservative social function: it is scarcely the purveyor of ‘family values’ but makes seductive all manner of crimes, from Satan’s revolt against God in Milton’s Paradise Lost to Raskolnikov’s murder of an old woman in Dostoevski’s Crime and Punishment. It encourages resistance to capitalist values, to the practicalities of getting and spending. Literature Literary Theory is the noise of culture as well as its information. It is an entropic