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French and Francophone Literature II: Corporéalité et Identité

Session 8 - Sunday 2:45-4:15pm
Ching Hall 251
Presiding Officer: 
Monique Manopoulos
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Joseph Dieme
  1. Ethics of Translation: Corps, Corporeality, and Criticism in Nicole Brossard. Jess Huber, Memorial University

    In Nicole Brossard’s writing, corporeally invested rhetoric is second only to breathing. I offer an examination of the ethical implications of studying bodies which have been translated and retranslated by the minds/bodies of those who are other to Brossard.

  2. The Quest of Innocence and Immortality in the Mist of War. Jean-Philippe Vauchel, French Legacy Institute

    Between the two world wars, French literature and, more precisely, autobiographies of youth, revealed differents ways to represent personal memories, minorities and language by creating a genre rooted in social classes and literary movements separating parisian authors from the provincial ones.

  3. Errantry and Self-Discovery in André Breton’s Nadja. Lorenzo Giachetti, Stanford University

    Through his journey into the urban “jungle” of Paris, Breton’s flâneur breaks from Baudelaire’s passive observer, reclaiming a form of epic errantry in which the chevalier had to find himself by conquering the unknown forces of the forest; supernatural beasts, rival knights and finally, the dame.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed