<i>Le Personnel est politique: médias, esthétique et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume et Nelly Arcan</i> . Par <scp>Mercédès Baillargeon</scp> <i>Le Personnel est politique: médias, esthétique et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume et Nelly Arcan</i> . Par BaillargeonMercédès. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 75.) West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2019. xii + 206 pp.
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Abstract
In this reworking of her doctoral dissertation, Mercédès Baillargeon sets out to examine the role of the media, aesthetics, and politics in the autofiction of Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, and Nelly Arcan. Between the overarching Introduction and Conclusion, three chapters are devoted to Angot and Arcan, and four to Delaume. Each chapter examines in detail either a work by the author or an overarching theme (for Angot, her media persona, L’Inceste, and Quitter la ville; for Delaume, her particular type of autofiction, Les Mouflettes d’Atropos, Le Cri du sablier, and La Vanité des Somnambules; for Arcan, autofiction and metafiction, narcissism and projection, and ‘La Honte’). The very detailed table of contents then serves as a quick guide to the various lenses that Baillargeon will use to examine how and why the authors in her study ‘s’exposent au danger d’être mal reçues et de voir leur œuvre, qui traite surtout d’aventures sexuelles scandaleuses et d’histoires de familles traumatiques, réduite à sa dimension personnaliste tout en cultivant une relation délibérément conflictuelle avec leur public dans leurs œuvres et à travers leur rapport avec les médias’ (p. 14). The book’s title indicates that it will focus on media, aesthetics, and politics in the work of the three authors, although not all of these subjects are examined in equal detail in the section devoted to each writer. The role of sex in Delaume’s work is very different from its role in Angot’s and Arcan’s and this has an impact, for example, on her relationship with the media. Certain factual inaccuracies, such as Baillargeon’s assertions, based solely on Delaume’s novels, that the writer was born in Lebanon when she was actually born in France, and that she legally changed her name to Chloé Delaume, are unfortunate in a scholarly publication, although they are not central to Baillargeon’s reading and interpretation of the texts and authors she examines. Although the division into short segments sometimes gives the book too broad a scope of topics and a superficial tone, Baillargeon’s bringing together of Angot, Delaume, and Arcan is pertinent to the study of their autofiction, particularly in the way that they confront the creation of self, the writer–reader relationship, and their use of language (aesthetics) as an integral part of their literary project. Each author does, in their own way, focus on making the personal political as they break boundaries in writing about taboo subjects, such as trauma and women’s sexuality.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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