FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION
Sex, Identity, and Literature
Spring 2016
FREN4050,090 FRAN 3003,090 ENGL4050,095 WGST4228,001 ENGL5050,096 FREN5050,090 MALS6000,009 WGST5050,095
W 5:30-8:15, COED 202
Katherine Stephenson
COED 441 Main LACS office phone: 704.687.8754
Office Hours: 1:30-2:00 TR, 4:50-5:20 TWR & by appt.
ksstephe@uncc.edu
http://pages.charlotte.edu/katherine-stephenson/courses/french-women-writers-in-translation
Last update Apr. 23, 2016
| Jan. 13 | Introduction to course; John Cudden, “The Institutionalization of Literature,” (935-937); Ruth Robbins, Literary Feminisms, Introduction (1-17) |
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Jan. 21 |
A Frozen Woman (1-113) Ruth Robbins, Literary Feminisms, Introduction (1-17), Afterword (259-66) Diana Holmes, Introduction (ix-xviii), Ch. 1: “Women in French Society 1849-1914” (3-25), Ch. 6: “Women in French Society 1914-1958” (107-124), Ch. 10: “Women in French Society 1958-1994” (193-215) Brenda J. Allen, Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity, “Gender Matters” (41-63) Last day to add, drop, change grade type to P/F or Audit Deadline for graduate students to apply for May 2016 graduation |
| Jan. 27 | A Frozen Woman (113-192) Diana Holmes, Ch. 13: “Feminism and Realism: Christiane Rochefort and Annie Ernaux” (246-65) Michael Sheringham, “Annie Ernaux, homing in on herself,” The Times Literary Supplement 1/11/16 Rita Felski, Literature After Feminism, “Plots” (95-133) Atack and Powrie, Contemporary French Fiction By Women, Introduction (1-11) Rye and Worton, Women’s Writing in Contemporary France, Introduction (1-26) Graduate Readings and Presentations: Loraine Day, “Class, sexuality and subjectivity in Annie Emaux’s Les Armoires vides,” (41-55), in Atack and Powrie, Contemporary French Fiction By Women Colin Davis and Elizabeth Fallaize, French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years, Ch. 6, “Love stories: Annie Ernaux’s Passion simple” (123-143) Deadline for undergraduates to apply for May 2016 graduation |
| Language, the Body, Sexuality… | |
| Feb. 3 | The Lover (l-56, line 9) Diana Holmes, Ch. 11: “Ecriture féminine: The Theory of a Feminine Writing” (216-230); Ch. 12: “Defining a Feminine Writing” (231-45) Graduate Readings and Presentations: Colin Davis and Elizabeth Fallaize, French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years, Ch. 1, “The Story of her life: Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant” (18-37) Kathleen Hulley, “Contaminated Narratives: The Politics of Form and Subjectivity in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover” (30-50) |
| Feb. 10 | The Lover (56, line 10-117) Alan Riding, “Biography Refashions Duras’s ‘Heroic’ Stature,” International Herald Tribune Nov. 28-29, 1998 Graduate Readings and Presentations: Trista Selous, “Marguerite and the mountain,” (84-95), in Atack and Powrie, Contemporary French Fiction By Women |
| Fairy Tale and Myth | |
| Feb. 17 | Rose Mellie Rose (1-120) Rose Mélie Rose Structure (Moodle2) Diana Holmes, Ch. 14: “An Open Conclusion: Women’s Writing Now” (266-78) Marie Redonnet and Jordan Stump, Interview, Forever Valley (class handout) Jordan Stump, “At the Intersection of Self and Other: Marie Redonnet’s Splendid Hotel, Forever Valley, and Rose Mélie Rose” (267-73) Jordan Stump, “Separation and Permeability in Marie Redonnet’s Triptych” (105‑19) Graduate Readings and Presentations: Elizabeth Fallaize, “Filling in the Blank Canvas; Memory, Inheritance, and Identity in Marie Redonnet’s Rose Melie Rose” Graduate students: Paper topic due (Moodle2) |
| Feb. 24 | Rose Mellie Rose (cont.) Rose Mélie Rose Structure (Moodle2) Diana Holmes, Ch. 14: “An Open Conclusion: Women’s Writing Now” (266-78) Pig Tales (1-62) Sample analysis of Pig Tales (Moodle2) Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing web site on Darrieussecq [http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/french/marie-darrieussecq]: Biography Interview by Becky Miller and Martha Holmes (December 2001) on Marie Darrieussecq Web Site (http://darrieussecq.arizona.edu/en/about) [See “Interviews” on top frame] Katherine Stephenson, “Surviving to Tell the Tale” (Moodle2) |
| Mar. 2 | Pig Tales (62-151) Interview by Amy Concannon and Kerry Sweeney (March 2004) on Marie Darrieussecq Web Site (http://darrieussecq.arizona.edu/en/about) [See “Interviews” on top frame] “Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales,” The Complete Review [See “Links,” Pig Tales, “Article at SPIKE” and other reviews] Shirley Ann Jordan, Contemporary French Women’s Writing, Ch. 2 “Changing Bodies and Changing Identities: Monsters, Mothers and Babies in the Writing of Marie Darrieussecq” (75-89, 104-11) Graduate Readings and Presentations: Shirley Jordan, “Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq” (142-153), Ch. 10 in Rye and Worton, Women’s Writing in Contemporary France |
| Mar. 7-11 | Spring Recess |
| Mar. 16 | The Book of Nights (Prologue, Books I & II (3-86) Godine Publisher’s book ad Wikipedia article on Sylvie Germain The Book of Nights Cast of Characters The Book of Nights Notes on Characters I & II Tales from the Reading Room: “Sylvie Germain: Introduction” at http://litlove.wordpress.com/sylvie-germain-introduction/ and “The Sunday Salon 3: Magical Realism” at https://litlove.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/the-sunday-salon-3/ Winder, “Love and death on the forest floor: ‘Days of Anger’” at http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-review–love-and-death-on-the-forest-floor-days-of-anger—sylvie-germain-tr-christine-donougher-dedalus-899-pounds-1406673.html Moore’s Magical Realism Page, Emory University |
| Mar. 21 | Last day to drop class(es) with a “W” |
| Mar. 23 | The Book of Nights (Books III & IV (87-201) The Book of Nights Notes on Characters III-V Wikipedia article on Napoleon_III http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III Wikipedia article on Flanders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders Wikipedia on Alsace-Lorraine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine Hypertext Book of Hours http://medievalist.net/hourstxt/home.htm Chambers’ 1869 The Book of Days http://www.thebookofdays.com/ Symbolism of the number 7 Abstract and outline of Paper with annotated bibliography due (Moodle2) |
| Mar. 30 | The Book of Nights (Book V, Epilogue (203-263) Marie-Hélène Boblet-Viart, “From Epic Writing to Prophetic Speech: Le Livre des Nuits and Nuit d’Ambre” |
| Francophone Women’s Voices | |
| Apr. 6 | So Vaste the Prison: “The Silence of Writing,” Parts One and Two (11-167) “Assia Djebar (Fatima-Zohra Imalayne) ,” Twentieth-Century Arabic Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography 2009 (52-57) David Coward, “Assia Djebar: An Overview,” Contemporary Literary Criticism 2011 (133-35) Mildred Mortimer, “Assia Djebar’s Algerian Quartet,” (102-17) Jane Hiddleston, “Feminism and the Question of ‘Woman’ in Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison” (91-104) Susannah Drissi, “The Quest for Body and Voice in Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison” (1-8) Joyce Lazarus, “Writing as Resistance: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison” (83-95) Rachid Aadnani, “Language as Transgression: Archeology and Writing in Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la Prison” (137-46) Anne Donadey, “Between Amnesia and Anamnesis,” (111-16) |
| Apr. 13 | So Vaste the Prison: Parts Three and Four (169-359) Djebar, “Anamnesis in the Language of Writing,” (179-89) “Assia Djebar 1936-” Contemporary Literary Criticism 2004 (1-3, 27, 31-39, 39-48, 48-50, 107-8) Anne Donadey, “The Multilingual Strategies of Postcolonial Literature: Assia Djebar’s Algerian Palimpsest” (27-36) Adlai Murdoch, “Woman, Postcoloniality, Otherness: Djebar’s Discourses of Histoire and Algérianité,” (15-33) Zahia Smail Salhi, “Between the languages of silence and the woman’s word: gender and language in the work of Assia Djebar,” (79-101) Partial rough draft of paper due |
| Apr. 20 | Persepolis (1-153) Manuela Costantino, “Marji: Popular Commix Heroine Breathing Life into the Writing of History,” (429-447) Hillary Chute, “The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” (92-110) Rocio Davis, “A Graphic Self: Comics as Autobiography in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” (264-279) Graduate Readings and Presentations: Ann Miller, “Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: Eluding the Frames” (38-52) Gillian Whitlock, “Autographics: The Seeing ‘I’ of the Comics,” (965-979) Theresa Tensuan, “Comic Visions and Revisions in the work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapi,” (947-964) |
| Apr. 27 | Persepolis (155-341) Babak Elahi, “Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” (312-325) Typhaine Leservot, “Occidentalism: Rewriting the West in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” (115-130) Stacey Weber-Fève, “Framing the ‘Minor’ in Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis,” (321-328) Amy Malek, “Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production: A Case Study of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” (353-380) Review: Rye and Whorton, Women’s Writing in Contemporary France, Conclusion (222- 25) Jean H. Duffy, “Liminality and Fantasy in Marie Darrieussecq, Marie NDiaye and Marie Redonnet,” (901-928) Debra Kelly, “The appeal to memory: Marguerite Duras and Assia Djebar, from the urgent narrative to the ‘monumental’ text,” (60-72) Botson and Plastas, “Homeland In/Security: A Discussion and Workshop on Teaching Marjane Satrapi’s _Persepolis_” (1-14) [transversalism 2-3] [optional: Françoise Lionnet, Afterword, Francophonie, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms (258-69)] |
| May 4 | Reading Day Graduate students: Paper due |
| May 11 | Final Exam (Wednesday, 5:00-7:30) |