https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/662 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/660 The article focuses on Joan of Arc as a figure who can embody Jacques Derrida’s reflections on the gaze and tears. In his texts, Derrida proposes the distinction between eyes that see and eyes that are seen. According to Derrida, blinding is what reveals the truth of the gaze, and it is not the eyes that see, but only the tears that blur vision. The thesis of this paper is that Joan of Arc is an emblematic figure of the emotion that has always been removed from the regime of the authority of seeing. Her tear-filled gaze, as depicted by director Dreyer, can subvert the opposition between the visible and invisible. mer., 10 janv. 2024 10:51:14 +0100 jeu., 15 févr. 2024 17:38:29 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/660 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1046 In these two rewritings of the myth, Medea is a housewife, pregnant with her third child, dedicated to home and family and a foreigner who arrived in Italy with the dream of a better future, imprisoned in a prostitution racket by the man she loves and who becomes the father of her twins. For both Medeas, infanticide becomes an extreme act of liberation from society’s control over women through the ethics of care; a way to de-moralize gender and deconstruct the notion of femininity. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 14:02:10 +0100 jeu., 15 févr. 2024 13:42:19 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1046