Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-891673-4 (ISBN)
Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing together two literatures whose prominence in life-writing theory to date could hardly be more different: while French women's writing has long been at the centre of international discussions of autobiography, the relative invisibility of Spanish women's writing remains striking. The dialogue that thus underpins this study, between diverse twenty-first-century case studies and broader approaches to life-writing, shines a light on what is gained from inviting different voices into the discussion. These narrative projects challenge longstanding critical assumptions in autobiography studies and trauma theory about how writers can and should represent the multiple perspectives that are at the heart of intergenerational stories. In exploring the narrative solutions that these texts propose in response to the ethical questions they navigate, this book shows that writing relational lives rests on far more than the mere recounting of a shared history. 'Relating' in these texts, it proposes, is an act embedded in the telling of the story. It is a mode of testifying together to traumatic experience, one that reveals a powerful preoccupation in contemporary women's life-writing practice with making more audible the many voices and versions that go unheard.
Hannie Lawlor is Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature and Film at Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College, University of Oxford. Previously, she was Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin, and she holds a PhD from Wolfson College, Oxford. Her comparative research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spanish women's prose and film and on twenty-first-century life narratives, and with Dr Alexandra Effe, she is co-editor of The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Dialogues in Twenty-First-Century Life Writing
Part One
1: Traumatic Legacies and Narrative Claims: Rewriting Relations in Colombe Schneck's La Réparation (2012) and Juana Salabert's Velódromo de Invierno(2001)
1.1: The Matter of Inheritance
1.2: Relations, Repairs and Replacement in La Réparation
1.3: Missing Fathers and Illegitimate Authors: Velódromo de Invierno
Displaced Subjects and Ventriloquised Voices: Intergenerational Relations and The Ethics of Representation in Dulce Chacón's La voz dormida (2002) and Lydie Salvayre's Pas pleurer (2014) 69
2.1: Loudspeakers and Mouthpieces: Contrasting Approaches to Telling the Other's Tale
2.2: Magnified Stories, Minimised Voices: La voz dormida
2.3: Pas pleurer: Speaking in (M)other Tongues
2.4: Reciprocal Relations and the Ethics of Postmemory
Part Two
Legacy, Lineage and lignes de fuite: Intergenerational Transmission in Nicole Lapierre's Sauve qui peut la vie (2015) and Gabriela Ybarra's El comensal (2015)
3.1: (Dis)Connecting Traumatic Histories
3.2: Lines of Flight in Sauve qui peut la vie
3.3: Narrative Loops and Impending Returns in El comensal
3.4: Images of Intergenerational Transmission
Burials, Exhumations, and Textual Tombs: Addressing the Other in Milena Busquets's También esto pasará (2015) and Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée (2015)
4.1: The Function of Funerals
4.2: Scattered Ashes in También esto pasará
4.3: Constructing a Cenotaph: Camille, mon envolée
4.4: Burial Shrouds in La Suture (2016)
4.5: Ethical Reburials and Alternative Conversations
Part Three
Clashing Family Stories and Inconceivable Conversations: Christine Angot's Un amour impossible (2015) and Cristina Fallarás's Honrarás a tu padre y a tu madre (2018)
5.1: Misalliance, Transmission and Incestuous Desire
5.2: Illusory Exchanges in Un amour impossible
5.3: Dialogues with the Dead: Honrarás a tu padre y a tu madre
5.4: Contaminating Conversations
Writing Relational Lives
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-891673-6 / 0198916736 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-891673-4 / 9780198916734 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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