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En Three novels by Octavia Butler, the first famous African-American speculative fiction writer, feature characters who suffer from memory loss. All three novels begin with the isolated and forgetful individual who in the course of the narrative recovers some memory of the past and uses it to build or reconstruct family ties. The article analyzes the way those amnesiac subjects are represented and the types of amnesia they suffer from. It also looks at some elements of what is retrieved in order to trace back the roots of certain recurrent motifs. Finally, it questions the figure of the Black woman fighting to recover her memory and use it as basis to construct a community.

Essential to risk studies, vulnerability analysis of the assets of an area is often not suitable for practical application. It is usually more an assets census than a real vulnerability assessment, facing a given hazard. Its intersection with the hazards zoning poses also many methodological, cartographic and operational problems. This work starts with the key concepts of risk, thanks to a review of French and international literature study. Then, it provides a procedure which allows precise knowledge of the local vulnerability, available to all types of hazards and applicable to all areas. Finally, in order to get an overall perspective of risk, assets vulnerabilities are crossed with the hazards areas, in accordance to the spatial distribution of both components and using innovative geomatics operations. As part of this study, this methodology will be applied to the rivers flooding and overflowing runoff of the Greater Lyon.

The linear polarization of the light scattered by fluffy agglomerates of tholins produced by a RF plasma is correlated to the physical properties of the samples. The results are compared to space observations of Titan's aerosols.

Pour explorer les profondeurs inconscientes de son intimité, Serge Doubrovsky a inventé en 1977 pour son ouvrage Fils un néologisme et a nommé un genre: l’autofiction. Le concept d’autofiction permet aux écrivains qui s’en réclament de distinguer leur stratégie narrative à la fois de celle de l’autobiographie et de celle du roman. L’autofiction relève en effet des deux formes puisqu’elle mobilise en même temps l’écriture autobiographique, référentielle, et la «fonction poétique du langage» qui problématise la référence. Postulant un phénomène de double réception, à la fois autobiographique et romanesque, ce genre littéraire associe deux contrats de lecture a priori antinomiques, et en fait un genre intrinsèquement paradoxal.

Based on archival material and the available bibliography, this article traces the complex history of the area surrounding the tomb of Dante Alighieri and the Basilica of San Francesco in Ravenna. It focuses on the period running from the commemorations of the sixth centenary of Dante's birth in 1865 to the inauguration of the Zona del silenzio in 1936. The end of the 19th century was marked by the failure of important monumental projects. The sixth centenary of Dante's death in 1921 was the first important phase of transformation, seeking to recreate the appearance of a medieval past. Subsequently, during the Fascist period, several projects, notably those by Giulio Ulisse Arata and Gustavo Giovannoni, attempted to extend the intervention to the urban scale, which, through aborted projects and partial realisations, led to the creation of the Zona del Silenzio. Through the interplay of local and national actors and the key role of Corrado Ricci, the article analyses the difficulties of developing an area that symbolically embodies Italy's tribute to the national poet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’objet de cette étude consiste à développer une méthodologie de classification permettant de choisir les emplacements fonciers les plus favorables à la construction de logements adaptés à des femmes seules âgées de plus de 80 ans. La méthode hiérarchique multicritère (MHM) est utilisée et permet de dégager, au sein du 8ème arrondissement de Lyon, des zones optimales pour l’implantation des logements. Toutefois, cette approche subjective doit être complétée par une analyse objective de la mobilité de la population concernée au moyen de traceurs GPS utilisés dans deux ensembles résidentiels comparables du 8ème arrondissement de Lyon. Cet outil permet de faire ressortir les «territoires de vie» de la population concernée et ainsi d’étudier le type, l’intensité et la densité des déplacements. La méthode utilisée dans ce travail pourra ensuite être utilisée dans les documents d’urbanisme et de planification urbaine.