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Dear All,

I am delighted to invite you to the forthcoming cross-cultural seminar at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR):

 

Friday, 7 March 2014, 2‐6 pm, room G21a

Senate House, University of London

 

Translating the Female Body in Contemporary Women's Writing

CCWW Cross-Cultural Seminar

 

Speakers:

 

Michela Baldo (Siena, CCWW‐IMLR), ‘Painful Italianness: The Italian‐Canadian and Italian‐American female body translated into Italian’

 

Emily Spiers (New College, Oxford): ‘Bodies of Work: Intertextuality and Corporeality in Helene Hegemann’s Axolotl Roadkill’

 

Eliana Maestri (Warwick): ‘Performativity and the Body in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographie de ma mère [Autobiography of my mother]’

 

Georgina Paul (St Hilda’s, Oxford): ‘Different Frequencies: Translating Women’s Voices into Writing (Cixous, Bachmann, Wolf, Köhler)’

 

For further details, see http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15307/Translating+the+Female+Body+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing

 

ALL WELCOME

 

Please advise Gill Rye ([log in to unmask]) if you plan to attend.

 

 

Dr. Emanuela Patti

 

Institute of Modern Languages Research

School of Advanced Study

University of London

Stewart House

Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

Tel. n. 02078628962

Fax. n. 02078628672

Email: [log in to unmask]

 

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