Overstepping the Boundaries / Transgresser les limites 21st

 Overstepping the Boundaries / Transgresser les limites 21st‐Century Women’s Writing in French Contemporary Women's Writing in French (CWWF) Conference 2016 Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday, 28  Saturday, 29 October 2016 Programme Friday, 28 October 9:30 Registration 10:00 Plenary Session 1 – Chair: Kate Averis Siobhán McIlvanney (King’s College London) Fictional Trangressions: Contextualising the Contemporary 11:00 Coffee 11:30 Parallel Session 1 Panel 1a) Les Transgressions de Virginie Despentes ‐ Chair: Marta Segarra Brigitte Weltman‐Aron (University of Florida): Dé‐limiter le corps social: Virginie Despentes Dominique Carlini Versini (University of Kent/Université Paris Diderot): Marginalisation et excès dans Vernon Subutex de Virginie Despentes Andrea Hynynen (Université de Turku): Transgressions des frontières de genre, de sexualité et de catégories littéraires chez Virginie Despentes Panel 1b) Posthuman Paradigms and Monstrous Forms ‐ Chair: Helena Chadderton Rosalind Silvester (Queen’s University Belfast): The Monstrous Other in Ying Chen’s Le Mangeur Sophie Guignard (University of Stockholm): ‘L’irrationnel’: transgressions des limites conceptuelles chez Claire Castillon, Carole Martinez et Marie NDiaye Nausicaa Dewez (Service général des Lettres et du Livre à Bruxelles): Une forme de vie d’Amélie Nothomb, singulier roman Panel 1c) ‘Non’‐Maternity and Maternal Counternarratives ‐ Chair: Gill Rye Gillian Ni Cheallaigh (King's College London): Textual Transgression of the Limits of Reproductive Norms: Abortion in Maïssa Bey’s Bleu, blanc, vert (2006) and Delphine Le Vigan’s No et Moi (2007) Nathalie Segeral (University of Hawaii): Aux Limites de la (Post)Mémoire et de la Folie: la Non‐
Maternité Choisie chez Quatre Auteures Contemporaines Julie Rodgers (Maynooth University): Deviant Pregnancy in Isabelle Pandazopoulos’ La Décision 13:00 Lunch (own arrangements) 1 14:00 Parallel Session 2 Panel 2a) Women’s Erotic Writing ‐ Chair: Helen Vassallo Polly Galis (University of Leeds): ‘Conformity as Counter‐Discourse’: Nelly Arcan’s A Ciel Ouvert Pauline Henry‐Tierney (University of Newcastle): Summer’s Transgressive Triptych: Erotic Alterity chez Christine Angot, Claire Castillon and Tatiana de Rosnay Diana Holmes (University of Leeds): Bad Sex/Good Sex: Nancy Huston and the Boundaries of Erotic Writing Frédérique Chevillot (University of Denver): Françoise Rey ou la lecture transgressive Panel 2b) Marie Darrieussecq: 20 Years since Truismes: où on en est? ‐ Chair: Marie‐Claire Barnet Simon Kemp (Somerville College, Oxford): ‘La même d’une phrase à l’autre’: Language and Selfhood in Marie Darrieussecq’s 21st Century Fictions Helena Chadderton (University of Hull): Why Don’t French Books Sell Abroad? The Case of Marie Darrieussecq Sonja Stojanovic (Brown University): From the Bon Fromage to Cadet Rousselle: Marie Darrieussecq Makes Us Sing Annabel L. Kim (Harvard University): Marie Darrieussecq’s White: the Light Continent Panel 2c) Kinship and Community ‐ Chair: Amaleena Damlé Lori Saint‐Martin (Université du Québec à Montréal): Sisters and Brothers, Incest and Murder Marta Segarra (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/University of Barcelona): New Forms of Kinship and Community in Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes Elisabeth Snyman (North‐West University): Véronique Tadjo: Is There Hope Beyond the Divisions in Contemporary Africa? 16:00 Tea 16:30 Parallel Session 3 Panel 3a) Marginality and Honesty: Connecting Readers and Texts ‐ Chair: Elisabeth Snyman Jennifer Higgins (Independent Researcher/Translator): Touching the Untouchable: Emmanuelle Pagano on the Margins in Un renard à mains nues Sandra Daroczi (University of Exeter): Blurring the Boundaries between Reader and Narrator: The Fiction of Honesty in Darrieussecq’s Post‐2001 Novels Panel 3b) Breaking Ground, Staging Freedom ‐ Chair: Gillian Ni Cheallaigh Helen Vassallo (University of Exeter): Pute et fière: Pushing Boundaries of Narrative Identity in Ma Marseillaise (Darina Al Joundi, 2012) Jean Anderson (Victoria University of Wellington): Régine Deforges: the Writer Without Whom…? Panel 3c) Beyond the Visible: Textual Boundaries between Experience and Fiction ‐ Chair: Simon Kemp Elise Hugueny‐Léger (University of St Andrews): Aller au‐delà du visible: les romans de Delphine de Vigan (2001‐2015) Lyn Thomas (University of Sussex): Annie Ernaux’s Mémoire de fille: Writing about Youth from the Perspective of Age 17.45 Author Reading and Q+A with Aurélia Aurita Chair: Catriona MacLeod 18.45 Wine Reception 20:00 Conference Dinner (optional) 2 Saturday, 29 October 10:00 Parallel Session 4 Panel 4a) Mothering: Transmission and Trangression ‐ Chair: Julie Rodgers Eglė Kačkutė (Maynooth University): Motherguilt in Narratives of Mothering in Migration
Susan Ireland (Grinnell College): The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston's Bad Girl: Classes de littérature Jessica Tindira (Indiana University): ‘Mon fils dont je n’accoucherai pas’: Maternity and Political Activism Linda Lê’s Cronos Panel 4b) Femininity and the Body ‐ Chair: Michèle A. Schaal Caroline Verdier (University of Strathclyde): ‘Transgresser […] pour que les mots puissent exister’: l’écriture de Delphine de Vigan Lucille Cairns (Durham University): The Female Anorexic Body: Transgressing ‘lay’ Thinking about it and about its Treatment by Medico‐clinical Disciplines/Discourses Amaleena Damlé (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge): Plasticity and the Feminine Panel 4c) Writing, Publishing and Literary Hierarchies ‐ Chair: Maria‐Dolores Picazo Isabelle Boisclair (Université de Sherbrooke): Le Je de la prositutuée au prisme de l’agentivité sexuelle Adelaide Kuehn (University of California, Los Angeles): Representing Representation: Strategies of Metafiction in Je vous souhaite la pluie Nathalie Wourm (Birkbeck, University of London): Nathalie Quintane: les nouvelles écritures politiques 11:30 Coffee 12:00 Parallel Session 5 Panel 5a) Transgressive Sex(ualities) ‐ Chair: Alison Rice Gabrielle Parker (Middlesex University): ‘Madame Bovary X!’, or ‘on a le droit de vouloir être un objet’ Nadia Louar (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh): Sexual and Racial Stereotypes in the Literary Works of Contemporary French Women Authors, Christine Angot (Le marché des amants) and Marie Darrieussecq (Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes), and French Canadian author, Nancy Huston (Infrarouge) Sidney Smith (University of Auckland): Female Sexual Desire in Moroccan Fiction Panel 5b) The Limits of Writing the Self ‐ Chair: Anne‐Marie Pïcard Mercédès Baillargeon (University of Maryland): Possible parjure? Vérité, mensonge et fiction dans l’œuvre de Chloé Delaume Michèle A. Schaal (Iowa State University): Overstepping and Blurring Boundaries: Queer(ing) Autofiction in Wendy Delorme’s La Mère, la Sainte et la Putain Clara Zgola (University of Warsaw): Infléchir les normes, transgresser les frontières: la transmission de la (post)mémoire dans le roman autobiographique contemporain au féminin Panel 5c) Geographies of desire ‐ Chair: Adelaide Kuehn Beatrice Ivey (University of Leeds): Malika Mokeddem’s N’Zid and La Désirante: Transgressive Desire and Memory in the Mediterranean Sea Catherine Rodgers (Swansea University): D’après une histoire vraie: Place Colette de Nathalie Rheims Margaret Gillespie (Université de Franche‐Comté): Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Space and Genre: Après l’amour by Agnès Vannouvong (2013) 3 13:30 Lunch (provided) 14:30 Plenary Session 2 – Chair: Eglė Kačkutė Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary University of London) Overstepping the Boundaries: Sexual Awakening, Trauma and Writing in Annie Ernaux’s Mémoire de fille and Christine Angot’s Une semaine de vacances 15:30 Tea 16:00 Parallel Session 6 Panel 6a) Genre et genres ‐ Chair: Catherine Rodgers Anne‐Marie Picard (The American University of Paris): Chloé Delaume: déplacer les limites, quelle limites? Alison Rice (University of Notre Dame): The Limitations of Genre in the Work of Worldwide Women Writers of French Marie‐Claire Barnet (Durham University): ‘Écrire au bord’ ou d’autres part(ie)s?: les enjeux du jour, le tour des écrits journalistiques et artistiques de Marie Darrieussecq Panel 6b) Crossings: Communities, Cultures, Nations ‐ Chair: Beatrice Ivey Anabel Apap (University of Malta/Université de Paris Sorbonne): Le déplacement et l’identité chez Fatou Diome et Véronique Tadjo Mark Lee (Mount Allison University): Crossing Boundaries External and Internal: the Writing Imaginary of Shumona Sinha Geneviève Guetemme (Université d’Orléans): Laurine Rousselet et Leila Alaoui: entre culture de soi et de l’autre Panel 6c) Re‐writings / Ré‐écritures ‐ Chair: Nathalie Wourm Marinella Termite (University of Bari): La réécriture, limite de l’œuvre? Marzia Caporale (University of Scranton): Transgressing the Canon: the (non)Heroine in Amélie Nothomb’s Barbebleu María‐Dolores Picazo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Le pouvoir dévastateur du regard dans À ciel ouvert de Nelly Arcan 17:30 Closing Remarks 18:00 End of Conference The conference organisers are very grateful to the University of London Cassal Trust and the following organisations for their sponsorship of this event Advance registration required. Closing date: 12 October (12 September for speakers) Conference fees: both days £50 (standard rate), £45 (paid‐up Friends of German or Italian at the IMLR), £25 (students); one day only £30 (standard rate), £25 (paid‐up Friends of German or Italian at the IMLR), £15 (students) 20/10/2016 4