Relational responses to trauma in twenty-first-century French and Spanish women's writing / Hannie Lawlor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawlor, Hannie, author.

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical fiction, French--21st century--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction, French.

Autobiographical fiction, French--Women authors--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction, Spanish--21st century--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction, Spanish.

Autobiographical fiction, Spanish--Women authors--History and criticism.

Comparative literature--French and Spanish.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Spanish and French.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction: Dialogues in Twenty-First-Century Life Writing

PART ONE Ethical Parameters in Postmemorial Narratives

1 Traumatic Legacies and Narrative Claims: Rewriting Relations in Colombe Schneck's 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 αr-.25exβγηµεθδζικλνξπρςστυφχψωϑϕϱεΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΥΦΨΩLa Rparation

1.3 Missing Fathers and Illegitimate Authors: αr-.25exβγηµεθδζικλνξπρςστυφχψωϑϕϱεΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΥΦΨΩVeldromo de Invierno

1.4 Resituating the Ethical Debate

2 Displaced Subjects and Ventriloquized Voices: Intergenerational Relations and the Ethics of Representation in Dulce Chacón's La voz dormida (2002) and Lydie Salvayre's Pas pleurer (2014)

2.1 Loudspeakers and Mouthpieces: Contrasting Approaches to Telling the Other's Tale

2.2 Magnified Stories, Minimized Voices: La voz dormida

2.3 Pas pleurer: Speaking in (M)other Tongues

2.4 Reciprocal Relations and the Ethics of Postmemory

PART TWO Proximate Others and Personal Loss

3 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

3.2Lines of Flight in Sauve qui peut la vie

3.3 Narrative Loops and Impending Returns in El comensal

3.4 Images of Intergenerational Transmission

4 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 Conflicting Family Histories

5 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 αr-.25exβγηµεθδζικλνξπρςστυφχψωϑϕϱεΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΥΦΨΩUn amour impossible

5.3 Dialogues with the Dead: αr-.25exβγηµεθδζικλνξπρςστυφχψωϑϕϱεΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΥΦΨΩHonrars a tu padre y a tu madre

5.4 Contaminating Conversations

Conclusion: Writing Relational Lives

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 21, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198916765

0198916760

9780198916741

0198916744

OCLC:

1441210547