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A Decade of Women's Writing in France: Trends and Horizons 2000-2010

A Decade of Women's Writing in France: Trends and Horizons 2000-2010

Publié le par Florian Pennanech (Source : Gill Rye)

A Decade of Women's Writing in France:Trends and Horizons 2000-2010

10thanniversary conference of the

ContemporaryWomen's Writing in French Seminar

tobe held on 14-16 October 2010 at

Instituteof Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London,

SenateHouse, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, U.K.

CALL FOR PAPERS

This international conference willcelebrate the tenth anniversary of the Contemporary Women's Writing in French(CWWF) Seminar. As such, it aims to identify the main trends and horizons in women'swriting in France in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Theconference will look both back, in order to highlight what is new aboutnew women's writing, and forwards, in order to evaluate which trends are likelyto be trendsetting and to identify those that are emerging as newhorizons. Trends and horizons may relate to content or literariness, themes orissues, as well as to style, genre, language and writing. Writers coveredshould be at least partly living or working in France (papers on migrantwriters are welcome). Writers may be established authors or have published forthe first time in the last ten years, but the texts discussed should have beenpublished between 2000-2010.

The first CWWF conference held in 2000 onthe 1990s generation of women writers in France brought to light dominantthemes such as family relations, the body, memory and the past, genderidentity, sexual transgression, experimental genres, etc., in which a new darkside to women's writing came to the fore – trauma, violence, suffering, loss.In focusing on the trends and horizons of the first decade of the twenty-firstcentury, the 2010 conference will endeavour to map the developments,evolutions, schisms, new turns, differences, diversifications, cross-fertilisations,and radical changes between women-authored literary production (of all kinds)in France in the last ten years and the previous decade(s).

A book publication is planned.

Proposals of approximately 350 words for a20-minute paper, together with an 80-word bio-bibliography, should be sent tothe organiser, Dr Gill Rye, gill.rye@sas.ac.ukby the first call deadline of 30 September 2009. The trend(s) to be discussedin the paper should be clearly identified and justified; writers and texts tobe covered should be situated in relation to relevant literary and/orsocio-cultural contexts; and main theoretical approaches should be referenced.Papers may be presented in either English or French, but those to be consideredfor the main publication should be in English.