Cette communication explore les représentations culturelles dans la littérature judéo-marocaine contemporaine à travers une double approche méthodologique articulant la lecture rapprochée (close reading) et la lecture distante (distant reading). En croisant une analyse stylistique fine de certains extraits d’œuvres de Nicole Elgrissy et Jacob Cohen avec des visualisations issues d’un corpus élargi (forums numériques, blogs diasporiques, archives littéraires numérisées), il s’agit de démontrer comment les outils technologiques permettent de renouveler l’étude des identités diasporiques, des stéréotypes et des mémoires collectives. Cette approche hybride s’inscrit dans les perspectives actuelles de la littérature comparée numérique, interrogeant à la fois les conditions matérielles de production des textes et les technologies d’exploration littéraire. Elle propose un dialogue entre humanités numériques, imagologie et études postcoloniales, en mettant en lumière les effets de médiation opérés par la technologie sur l’expérience littéraire et les récits culturels.

A Tale for the Time Being not only depicts the unfortunate life of Nao, a Japanese girl, but also portrays the identity crisis of her father, Haruki, who is dismissed by a technology company. Haruki's experiences point to the relationship between technology and ethics. This paper uses Haruki's encounters as a thread, employing literary ethical criticism as the core methodology, and combining it with historical and cultural context to analyze the profound impacts of technology on individual identity, ethical choices, and interpersonal connections in the novel. Technology firstly brings Haruki respect and honor, enabling him to achieve a decent life in America. However, when faced with the divergence between technology and morality, Haruki makes the right ethical choice, allowing his conscience to prevail: he opposes the application of the interface he designed for military weapons and attempts to persuade his team to incorporate an ethical awareness program to remind users to use it ethically. The company rejects his proposal and dismisses him. Yet, his complete detachment from technology later leads him to suffer a severe identity crisis: his hatred for technology robs him of his livelihood, and he returns to Japan consumed by self-doubt, repeatedly attempting suicide. Upon learning that his uncle, a Kamikaze pilot, had made the same choice during WWII, Haruki faces up to technology and uses it to rescue his daughter from online violence. Through the lens of literary ethical criticism, we see that the novel on one hand showcases the conflict between technology and ethics, criticizing the alienation of human emotions by technological rationality. On the other hand, it suggests that technology can also serve as a medium to heal trauma, reclaim ethical identity, and reconstruct ethical relationships.

Michel Clouscard and Christopher Caudwell are neglected Marxist theorists both globally and in their own respective countries of France and Britain. This presentation seeks to engage in a comparative analysis of their work on a highly understudied topic within Marxist theory, namely love. Clouscard’s Traité de l'amour-fou and Caudwell’s numerous writings on love and literature are also little discussed in the scholarship on these two figures. Both writers begin from critiques of the mythic return of psychoanalysis to the literature of ancient Greece (Oedipus). From here, they trace, each in their own complementary way, the development of bourgeois conceptions of freedom and individuality and their instantiations in historically variable relations of family, property, and selfhood. When read together, Clouscard and Caudwell provide a materialist history of love. For both writers, love is a crucial form of praxis at the center of human social being. In turn, they provide a radical social ontology of love rather than musings on “philo” and “sophia.” Crucially, Clouscard’s conception of bourgeois love, developed through his reading of the myth of Tristan et Iseut and influenced by the work of Pierre Gallais, updates and develops Marxist theories of love within a universal historical totality, breaking with Eurocentric conceptions of love on both the right and the left of the political spectrum.