The Deja-Vu and the Authentic: Reprise, Recycling, Recuperating in Anglophone Literature and Culture

The correlated concepts of the deja-vu and the authentic suggest that all cultural productions are per se palimpsests whose construction is the result of such processes as reprise, recycling, and recuperating. Reprise is approached as various forms of citation, reference and intertextuality, recycling is defined as commodification and intellectual impoverishment, while recuperating implies the ideological process that makes reappropriation possible. By covering a wide spectrum of research interests, from literature to music, art and the cinema, the seventeen contributions in English or in French explore the political and ethical implications inherent in the creation of culture.