The Broken Mirror: Christine and the Queens and Global Frenchness

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Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

The Broken Mirror:
International Symposium

Born in Nantes in 1988, Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier, known as Christine and the Queens or simply Chris is a star for our times: singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and choreographer, she flits between roles, just as she does between identities, names, genders, genres, places, and languages. Describing her identity as a “broken mirror,” she exists in fragments, splinters, shards, broken parts that yet constitute a distinctive whole.At once quintessentially French and unremittingly global, she is hugely popular in France and across the world. What is it that drives this success and this global appeal? In what does her originality consist? What does she take from the past and from her influences to create the newness that courses through her work? How do she and her work relate to contemporary ideas of identity and culture? To what extent does she reinvent “Frenchness”?This Zoom symposium seeks to address these questions, and many others provoked by this singular yet plural figure. We welcome proposals for panels and papers on any aspect of Christine and the Queens’ work and life, its reception and significance.Z﻿oom links can be accessed here:<a href="https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/broken-mirror-christine-and-queens-and-global-frenchness/program" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/broken-mirror-christine-and-queens-and-global-frenchness/program</a>

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