Tired of literary spectacles that you don’t understand (and more often than not you haven’t read the book in question)? All right, Lose launches its BookClub!
Madmoizelle’s BookClub, the program that questions society through books and who makes them
The BookClub is the broadcast of Lose who questions society through books, in the company of those who write them. Once a month, journalist Aïda Djoupa and editor-in-chief of Lose Marie-Stéphanie Servos receives the most specialized experts and authors to interrogate contemporary issues together through books. How do they make the voices that we hear little resonate, especially those of women and minorities? What injunctions can they also sometimes convey? Here, you don’t need to have read the books to listen and participate in the exchange. The BookClub is an inclusive, diverse, pop, accessible and feminist meeting place.
Romance and Feminism: An Impossible Love?
Fifty Shades, after, Campus driver, The Bridgerton Chronicles… In recent years, romance has consistently broken sales records in publishing. Has the genre been dusted off since the time of Harlequins, these romance novels born in France in the 1970s?
From Wattpad to BookTok, hits like Prisoner (breaking sales records in France) turns amateur authors into superstars, in the silence of the mainstream press. Why this indifference to the huge market represented by Romance? Is this genre, written and read primarily by women, necessarily feminist? Is romanticism, of which many scenarios give pride of place to models of domination (forced marriages, influence, etc.), a space of liberation of sexuality for young women or, on the contrary, does it reproduce patriarchal codes?
Aïda Djoupa and Marie-Stéphanie Servos will discuss these topics in the presence of three guests:
- Magali Bigeylecturer-researcher at the University of Franche-Comté
- Camillus Emmanuelauthor and journalist
- Camillus LeonardHugo Roman editor
To follow the live, go to the Twitch channel of Losebut also live on Instagram and TikTok, Monday 16th January from 7.00pm The BookClub will then be available for playback on YouTube and as a podcast.
In this show we will cover:
- Letter to those who read my erotic novels, and who should stop nowby Camille Emmanuelle
- Our tormented souls by Morgane Moncomble
- The new romance and its nuances, Literary market, imaginary sexuality and female condition Review by Alice Béja, Crier n°12 (01/2019)
Source: Madmoizelle
Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
