‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’: pain and barbarism as a touristic ornament in Emmanuel Carrère’s work ‘Calais’

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  • Maider Tornos Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

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https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.9.29388

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border, migrants, animality, tourism, writing

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In 2016, Emmanuel Carrère publishes Calais: a documentary novel, which narrates the transformation that takes place in the city, as a consequence of the emergence of the Jungle, the largest temporary settlement of migrants in Europe until that moment. This work, heir to the epistemological shift in the human sciences, from the category of time to the category of space, proposes a reflection on the spatial referent that constructs the novel, using a multidisciplinary perspective that intertwines literary theory and cultural studies.

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Maider Tornos, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Graduate in Humanities and Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. She studied the master's degrees Lettres, Arts et Pensée Contemporaine (Paris VII), Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities (University of Barcelona) and Psychoanalysis (Dimensión Psicoanalítica, Mexico). She received her doctorate from the University of Barcelona, with the work Pulsión, goce y placer en el pensamiento francés de 1957 a 1973 ('Drive, jouissance and pleasure in French thought from 1957 to 1973'). She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, where she taught feminist theory, literary criticism and psychoanalysis. From a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together French structuralism and post-structuralism, gender studies, psychoanalysis and aesthetic and literary theory, her research pays special attention to the interweaving of the body, subjectivity, power and language. She is currently a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

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Published

2024-12-30

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Tornos, M. (2024). ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’: pain and barbarism as a touristic ornament in Emmanuel Carrère’s work ‘Calais’. HYBRIDA, (9), 27–50. https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.9.29388
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No. 9 (2024): LISIÈRE/S

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