[Gala-l] publication announcement

[Marie-Dominique Garnier]

Dear list moderator, 

I would like to post an announcement concerning the recent publication of my book, in French, titled Alphagenre, (Paris, Editions l’Harmattan, 2016). 
This essay, marginally connected to linguistics,  adopts a visual approach to language and
to the language of forms, more precisely with the “form” and facticity of a letter that has seemed to gain recent graphic promotion in “hegemonic” discursive exchanges in contemporary French — G or g. 
The book is an inventory of words revisited in terms of  a “gendering” visual agenda. 

Pasted below is a brief presentation of the book, followed with a short translation.

Yours sincerely,

Marie-Dominique Garnier
Professor of Gender Studies
Université de Paris 8
France
maridogarnier at gmail.com
marie-dominique.garnier at univ-paris8.fr
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>  <http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/couv/9782343094427r.jpg>
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> ALPHAGENRE
> Marie-Dominique Garnier <http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=31475>
> Anthropologie Critique <http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=collection&no=80>
> ANTHROPOLOGIE, ETHNOLOGIE, CIVILISATION <http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=result&no_specialite=23>LANGUE <http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=result&no_specialite=34> 
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> ALPHAgENRE : ou comment lire avec les doigts. Les mots recueillis dans ce dictionnaire tactile de la langue contemporaine ont en commun de relayer le pouvoir de sexuation graphique, les effets de gangue et de gang d'une lettre phallique, micro-organe érectile de pouvoir : G ou g. De "genre" à "gouvernance", de "jungle" à "migrant" ou "hégémonie", cet essai analyse le régime graphique d'une lettre-corps, courroie de transmission d'une machine à binariser, à normer, à pré-former, à soumettre.
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> ISBN : 978-2-343-09442-7 • juillet 2016 • 260 pages
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> Pour commander le livre sur notre site web:
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> http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&sr=7 <http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&sr=7>
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> Alphagenre : or how to read digitally, through the tip of one’s fingers. The words gathered in this tactile inventory of contemporary French operate as gendered relays, graphically conveying a phallic force harboured in and around a letter, approached as a micro-organ of power — g or G, lower or upper-case, limp or loud. Through contextual analyses of order words such as  “migrants”, jungle”, gouvernance,” “genre” (in a French context), or “hégémonie”, this essay addresses the graphic interface of an embodied and embedded letter, made to operate as a portable, binary, normative and formative mechanism. 






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