Selim Rauer

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Post-Doc

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Selim Rauer (PhD) is a teacher-researcher at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University in Paris and a Philosophy teacher. In 2019-2020, he is a Felix Posen research fellow and junior faculty at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work examines the territorialities of foreignness as well as traumatic and post-traumatic memories related to colonialism and the Shoah in French and Francophone contemporary literature and drama. He is the author of a novel, La passion de Pier (Perséides, 2007); a biographical essay, Freddie Mercury (Fayard, 2008); and several collections of poems, among them Landscape and Le sable et le couteau (Sine Causa, 2010). He has published in various literary and academic peer-reviewed journals such as La règle du jeu (Grasset), Africultures (L’Harmattan), and more recently La revue littéraire (Léo Scheer), Modern Drama (University of Toronto Press), and Research in African Literatures (University of Indiana Press).

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Violence divine, Justice et Anthropocène: La Prédation du vivant au coeur d'Anima de Wajdi Mouawad

Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, 2021

Can justice be guaranteed at the cost of trespassing the realm of law? This is a question asked b... more Can justice be guaranteed at the cost of trespassing the realm of law? This is a question asked by Jacques Derrida in his essay, Force of Law scrutinizing the notion of “divine violence” as stated by Walter Benjamin in his essay Critique of Violence. It is precisely to a literary experience investigating the concepts of violence and justice that the Francophone writer Wajdi Mouawad (1968) invites us through his novel Anima published in 2012. An experience that does not only address violence through its figurative prism, but by unveiling our predation capabilities which inscribe us as human beings in a thanatological and necropolitical relation to the living in its entirety. The description of a human hunt through the terrified glancing and testimonies of animals populating different territories and geographies traversed by the character of Wahhch Debch, in search of the murderer of his wife, does not simply divulge exile and banishment as determinations of the “bare life” concept (Agamben), as Gregoire Chamayou evokes in Manhunt. It also enables a re-inscription of the human in an ecosystem. We will see how human being predatory aptitudes unshackles a dynamic of domination which concerns the whole living and our impact on the terrestrial bionetwork. The polyphonic bestiary that emerges through this stalking occupies the function of a tragic choir, and highlights a metaphysical and traumatic experience of violence scarring the human identity and memory through the eyes and senses of an absolute other: the animal, the non-human.

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