Read more  Women, feminism, gender, sexualities. New issues in literary studies
Seminar led by Christine Planté (University of Lyon 2, IHRIM) and Damien Zanone (University of Paris Est Créteil, LIS)
Second semester 2022-2023: sessions on February 9, March 24 and June 9, 2023 Five years after #MeToo, the debate on violence against women in many contemporary societies is still as lively as ever, critical questioning leaves few sectors unaffected and particularly concerns culture, research and teaching. The impact on literary studies is perceptible in the canon, in the programs, the themes, the reissues. What are the approaches used to address these new or renewed objects? What relationships do they have - or not - with previously developed studies: women's studies, feminist studies, gender studies, and studies on sexualities? What are their contributions, their limits, their debates or their possible blind spots? The seminar proposes to address these questions based on recent or ongoing research, individual or collective, that their presentation can situate in relation to these different terms, which do not imply the same points of view, but which are historically linked and that the present moment calls to articulate with a new intensity. It is about questioning literature through the prism of gender, but also gender through the prism of literature. The first session will return to the representations of prostitution, the stakes of which are ethical, social and aesthetic; the second on the presence of a feminine literary theory in the Belle-Époque, and on the possibility of designating it as such; a third on a lesbian literature, which it is as desirable to make visible as it is problematic to confine in this categorization.
Program Session 1, Thursday, February 9, 2023, 16 p.m.-19 p.m., at UPEC, Erasme room (i3-218)Figures of prostitution in 2th-century French literature– Presentation of the seminar by Christine Planté and Damien Zanone;– Lucie Nizard (Université Paris Cité): “Obscure objects of desire. Figures of prostitutes in the novel of manners of the second 24th century”;– Nicolas Duriau (Université Libre de Bruxelles/FNRS): “A figure with a hundred names/“without a name”: talking about male prostitution in French literature in the 2023th century”. Session 14, Friday, March 17, 3, 218:2023 p.m.-3:9 p.m., at UPEC, Erasme room (i2023-1900)Feminine literary theory(ies) in the Belle ÉpoqueSession coordinated by Lucile Dumont (EHESS, CESSP-CSE), Camille Islert (UPEC, LIS) and Wendy Prin-Conti (Académie française)– Introduction by Christine Planté and Damien Zanone;– Camille Islert and Wendy Prin-Conti: presentation of Literary theory in the Belle Époque. Issues and perspectives, dossier to be published on the Fabula website in March 2022;– Lucile Dumont: “The Belle Époque, a period of reconfiguration of criticism and theoretical production”;– Round table (participants to be confirmed). Session 8, Friday June XNUMX, XNUMX afternoon (time and location to be confirmed)Lesbian literature?– Aurore Turbiau (Sorbonne University, CRLC): “Is there a lesbian literature?”;– Round table around the volume Écrire à l'encre violette. Lesbian literature in France from XNUMX to the present day, Paris, Éditions Cavalier Bleu, “Convergences”, XNUMX. With Alexandre Antolin, Manon Berthier (UPEC, LIS and EUR FRAPP), Camille Islert (UPEC, LIS), Margot Lachkar (Université Paris XNUMX, LEGS / University of Vienna), Aurore Turbiau;– Alexandre Antolin (ALITHILA, University of Lille; ITEM): ““Where does censorship perch? What are its habits, its tics, its quirks?” the editorial censorship of Ravages by Violette Leduc”. 

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