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Women's Narratives and History I: Disruptions and Interruptions

Session 3 - Saturday 1:15-2:45pm
Henry Hall 225
Presiding Officer: 
Valerie Solar Woodward
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Melissa Knoll
  1. Loosening the Ties that Bind: H.D. and the Language of Loss. Cassandra Van Zandt, Biola University

    H.D.’s memoirs, letters, and poetry illuminate shifts in elegiac literature by women during the Modernist era. Significantly influenced by Freud, her writings are literary markers of the kinds of changes that occurred in our Western culture’s relationship with grief and grieving.

  2. A Comparative Analysis of Women's Wills from Murcia, Spain, 16th - 20th Centuries. Maria-Isabel Martinez-Mira, University of Mary Washington

    This presentation will analyze Spanish female wills from 16th-20th centuries in the city of Murcia, Spain, to understand how women’s lives evolve throughout history, specifically, whether those texts show ‘female solidarity’ despite the obstacles that society imposed on them.

  3. Reworking Narrative and Subjectivity in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless. Annie Schnarr, University of California, Riverside

    Kathy Acker’s reworking of literary forms interferes with logocentric colonial discourses that privilege the Western male subject. I argue that her corporeal and visual approach emphasizes the materiality of language as a force that can unleash the other, the feminine, and the “irrational.”

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed