The ambivalence of the body in the theater

To say that the body language is ambivalent, it is to understand that it translates a dilemmatic speech, full of contradictions. The body, which "is the most tangible trace of the subject" to take back David Le Breton is above all the pole of all the attractions. Of the human, social, cultural relations raising in passing of the representations (visual, material, virtual), the body remains the base of the flows which lead our existence, from where the interest of its representation in the literary field, notably with the scientific investigations of these last forty years. Thus in the XXth century, the literature became uncomplicated kills the body taboo through the theatrical expression, social and human art, "this place where the thought must find its body" to quote Philippe Sollers.

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Aminata SARR defendeu publicamente a sua tese de doutoramento a 27 de Maio de 2021 na Universidade Gaston Berger do Senegal, com uma Meno Muito Honrosa. uma jovem investigadora, especializada em literatura francesa.