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Linda Lê After the Millennium

Linda Lê After the Millennium

Publié le par Matthieu Vernet (Source : Gillian Ni Cheallaigh)

Linda Lê After the Millennium

Author Study Day: 17th June 2016, IMLR, London

With an exclusive reading by Linda Lê

Linda Lê has produced a rich and fascinating body of work, for which she has won prestigious literary prizes including the Prix Renaudot Poche, the Prix Wepler, and a nomination for the Prix Goncourt. This event brings together leading international Lê scholars and focuses on her writing since the millennium. The day will culminate with a reading of unpublished material by the author.

 

Programme: 
 

10:00                     Tea/Coffee and welcome 

10:30-12:00         Panel 1                 Intertextuality and Autotextuality/Intertextualité et Autotextualité

Michèle Bacholle-Bošković, Eastern Connecticut State University: 'Œuvres vives et survivants'

 

Alex Kurmann, Macquarie University, Sydney: 'Austrian Literary Spectres in the "maison hantée" of Lê's Intertextual Œuvre'

 

Thanh-Vân Ton That, Université Paris-Est Créteil: 'Between the Novel and the Short Story: Echoes and Rewriting by Linda Lê around the Father Figure'

 

 

12:00-13:15         Lunch (own arrangements)

 


13:15 – 14:45      Panel 2                 Gender, Genre, Self and Other/Genre, Moi et l'Autre

Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame: '"L." Linda Lê's Literary Longing'

 

Kate Averis, University of London in Paris: '(In)corporeality and Gender Alterity in Les Aubes (2000) and In memoriam (2007)'

 

Rebecca Rosenberg, Université de Nantes: 'Maternal Influence: The Power of Mother Figures in A l'enfant que je n'aurai pas (2011) and Lame de fond (2012)

 


14:45-15:15         Tea/Coffee (provided)


15:15 – 16:15      Joint Reading Workshop: Cronos (2010) – women writing violence

16:15 – 17:15      Linda Lê: Author reading followed by questions

 

17:15                     Vin d’honneur 

Room 104, Senate House, London WC1E WHU. Attendance is free but please register for attendance and participation by emailing the organiser: gillian.1.ni_cheallaigh@kcl.ac.uk