André Pettman

Research Interests
20th and 21st French and Francophone literature; communes and the communal imaginary; destitution power/potential; l’extrême contemporain; silence; the intersection of literature and technology, memorialization and mythologization, postcolonial studies

Publications

“Get Hard or Die Trying: Impotence and the Displacement of the White Male in Michel Houellebecq’s Sérotonine.” French Forum 46, no. 1, 2021, pp. 37-51.

Translations

Dorlin, Elsa. “I, Tituba and the Ontology of the Trace.” Yale French Studies 140, 2022. (Forthcoming) 

Bazin, Hugues. “The Body Politic of Hip-Hop Dance.” Hip Hop en français: An Exploration of Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World, edited by Alain-Philippe Durand. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, pp. 123-135. 

Jacono, Jean-Marie. “Rap Music in Cities in Crisis: The Case of Marseille.” Hip Hop en français: An Exploration of Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World, edited by Alain-Philippe Durand. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, pp. 17-28.