The Revival of Pamphletary Speech in the Twenty-First Century: The Rhetoric of Reversal

Abstract

ABSTRACT Through the study of three pamphleteer authors, Renaud Camus in France, Oriana Fallaci in Italy, and Fernando Vallejo in Colombia, this article explores the impact of recent legislations against hate speech on the literary field. It determines how literature, especially pamphlets, allows the reactionary ideological offensive to attempt to circumvent the law and studies the characterizing trait of this new twenty-first century pamphlet: the rhetoric of reversal.