sivilize

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sivilize \sɪvəlaɪz\

  1. Orthographe volontairement fausse du verbe civilize (civiliser), employé à l'origine dans The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), qui renforce l’insoumission du protagoniste et ironise sur la civilisation esclavagiste de la narration.
    • The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. — (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapitre premier)
    • Michiko Kakutani, thirty-year New York Times book critic, affirms this point in her January Times article, “Light Out Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You”: “To censor or redact books on school reading lists is a form of denial: shutting the door on harsh historical realities—whitewashing them or pretending they do not exist.” — (Mackenzie Spicer, Censoring Huck Finn)

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S’emploie le plus souvent entre guillemets presque exclusivement en référence à Huckleberry Finn.

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