The next meeting of the Contemporary Women's Writing in French seminar will be held on Saturday 16 March, 2.30-4.30 pm at IGRS, University of London, room 243, Senate House (2nd floor)
Organiser: Shirley Jordan, QMUL
Title: L’empreinte de l’autre en soi: Claire Castillon and Marie NDiaye
This seminar examines the articulation of self-other relations in works by the contemporary novelists Claire Castillon and Marie NDiaye. Its emphasis is on intimacy, intrusion, forms of violence and the numerous ways in which the ‘imprint’ of the other marks the self. Sophie Guignard’s paper on Castillon will focus on the narrative struggle with an altered sense of self, between fragmentation and alienation, in the 2004 novel _Vous parler d’elle_. Shirley Jordan’s paper on NDiaye will focus on ideas of hospitality and inhospitality in the novel which is due to appear in February 2013, _Ladivine_.
Speakers:
Sophie Guignard, University of Uppsal, ‘La trace de l’intime et l’empreinte de l’autre en soi dans _Vous parler d’elle_ de Claire Castillon’
Shirley Jordan, Queen Mary, University of London, ‘Traces of invasion: hospitality and inhospitality in Marie NDiaye’s _Ladivine_’
Texts for advance reading (preferable but not mandatory): Claire Castillon, _Vous parler d’elle_ (Paris: Fayard 2004 / Livre de Poche, 2006); Marie NDiaye, _Ladivine_ (Paris: Gallimard, 2013)
All welcome - we look forward to seeing you there (please advise [log in to unmask] if you intend to come)
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