Intersecting the Past as ‘Subjects’: Class, Race, and Women Writers in French

NEMLA 46th Annual Convention, April 30 - May 3, 2015   Toronto, Ontario

Intersecting the Past as ‘Subjects’: Class, Race, and Women Writers in French

This panel encourages papers on Francophone women writers challenging modes of oppression as well as notions of race and ‘post-racial’ societies. How do they question the subjection of women by oppressive power structures, and in turn, make us reflect on the historical links between capitalism and slavery? Can such literature change the way we currently think about living in a "post-colonial/post-racial" era?

Chairs: Mariana Goycoechea, Lisa Karakaya

Please submit your abstracts, 250-300 words, by September 30, 2014 at the NEMLA website: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html