Alice Becker-Ho
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Alice Becker-Ho (August 6, 1941 – ), is the author of Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), as well as numerous works of poetry.
, her mother Chinese, her father, originally from Alsace-Lorraine, a territory under dispute between France and Germany until the end of WWI, claimed French citizenship. In 1947 he moved his family to France.
Later, in 1963 Becker-Ho became involved in the Situationist International. She began what would be a long lasting relationship with Guy Debord
, they married August 5, 1972. Together they published Le Jeu de la Guerre
(The Game of War) in 1987, an expanded edition of which was republished by éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2006. An English edition appeared in 2008. She was his partner until his death in 1994.
She has written a rigorous account of the various slang speech in Western Europe in her works Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), translated as "The Princes of Jargon" by John McHale (Lampeter & New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), L’Essence du Jargon, and Du Jargon, héritier en bastardie (Paris: Gallimard) She also authored Au Pays du Sommeil Paradoxal [In Slumberpuzzleland].
After Debord's death Becker-Ho has taken up assembling and publishing his letters.
Life
Becker-Ho was born in ShanghaiShanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, her mother Chinese, her father, originally from Alsace-Lorraine, a territory under dispute between France and Germany until the end of WWI, claimed French citizenship. In 1947 he moved his family to France.
Later, in 1963 Becker-Ho became involved in the Situationist International. She began what would be a long lasting relationship with Guy Debord
Guy Debord
Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.-Early Life:Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931...
, they married August 5, 1972. Together they published Le Jeu de la Guerre
Le Jeu de la Guerre
Le Jeu de la Guerre is a book by Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho where they illustrate a game devised by Debord through giving a blow-by-blow account of one of their table-top conflicts. It was first published in 1987, but unsold copies were later pulped in 1991, along with other books by Debord, at...
(The Game of War) in 1987, an expanded edition of which was republished by éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2006. An English edition appeared in 2008. She was his partner until his death in 1994.
Works
Becker-Ho has published numerous works of poetry in French: D'azur au triangle vidé de sable (Cognac: Le Temps qu'il fait, 2000); Paroles de Gitans (Paris: Albin Michel, 2000); Au Pays du sommeil paradoxal (Cognac: Le Temps qu'il fait, 2000).She has written a rigorous account of the various slang speech in Western Europe in her works Les Princes du Jargon (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), translated as "The Princes of Jargon" by John McHale (Lampeter & New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), L’Essence du Jargon, and Du Jargon, héritier en bastardie (Paris: Gallimard) She also authored Au Pays du Sommeil Paradoxal [In Slumberpuzzleland].
After Debord's death Becker-Ho has taken up assembling and publishing his letters.
External links
- http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?aid=5431&pc=10
- http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/postsi/language.html
- [info.interactivist.net/ comments.pl?sid=4596&cid=2374 - 38k - Supplemental Result -]
- [excerpt from The Essence of Jargon in Parser, issue 1, Vancouver, May 2007]
- A Game of War (Le Jeu de la Guerre) by Guy Debord & Alice Becker-Ho, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Atlas Press, London 2007.