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Marie Cardinal: A Retrospective

Marie Cardinal: A Retrospective

Publié le par René Audet (Source : Emma Webb)

Marie Cardinal: A Retrospective
Tapton Hall, Sheffield University (UK)
10 12 January 2003

Organised in association with the Centre for Gender Studies in Europe
SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES

FRIDAY 10 JANUARY

1700 - Arrival and registration

1730 Introduction
Máire Cross (University of Sheffield)

1800 - 1900 - Keynote Address
Phil Powrie (University of Newcastle, UK)
The Father with the Movie Camera: Cet été-là and Mouchette

1900 - Wine reception and buffet supper

2130 - Bar and discussion

SATURDAY 11 JANUARY

0815 0915 - Breakfast

0930-1030 - Session One: Writing Algeria
Chair: Audrey Holdhus Small
Guy Dugas (Université Paul-Valéry III, France)
Femmes-écrivains dans la guerre dAlgérie: Marie Cardinal and Assia Djebar
Owen Heathcote (University of Bradford, UK)
The Personal and the Political: Algeria, Violence, Gender and Writing in Marie Cardinal, Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar

1030-1100 - Coffee

1100 1230 - Session Two: Narrative Strategies
Chair: David McCallam
Emma Webb (University of Sheffield , UK)
Fragmented Voices: Dialogic Utterances in Comme si de rien nétait and Les Jeudis de Charles et de Lula
Amy L. Hubbell (University of Michigan, USA)
Fixing the Past: The Use of Repetition in Marie Cardinals La mule de corbillard
Patricia De Méo (Dalhousie University, Canada) Dégager les fils de son histoire : les fonctions narratives et thématiques de la broderie dans Le Passé empiété

1230-1400 - Lunch

1400- 1500- Session Three: Trauma and Testimony
Chair: Alexandra Kokoli
Kathryn Robson (University of Newcastle, UK) The Bleeding Body: Rewriting the Past in Les Mots pour le dire
María José Palma Borrego (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) Le récit de cure féminin comme débordement du canon autobiographique

1500-1530 - Coffee

1530-1700 - Session Four: Mothers and Daughters
Chair: Amy L. Hubbell
Alison Rice (University of California, USA) La terre maternelle: LAlgérie et la mère chez Marie Cardinal
Annik Houel (University of Lyon II, France) Mère morte, fille vivante
Nancy Lane (University of South Carolina, USA) Mother/Land: Cardinal, Beauvoir and the Body

1800 - 1900 - Conference Dinner

1930 - Screening of Les Mots pour le dire

2100 - Bar and discussion

SUNDAY 12 JANUARY

0800-0900 - Breakfast

0900 1000 - Session Five: Writing Lives
Chair: Nancy Lane
Walter Wagner (University of Cyprus) Les Mots pour le dire ou la dialectique de laveu
Sarah Hartshorn (University of Leeds, UK) The Importance of the Heterosexual Couple and the Father-Daughter Relationship in the Work of Marie Cardinal

1000-1030 - Coffee

1030- 1130 - Session Six: Comparative Voices
Chair: Alison Rice
Elaine Martin (University of Alabama, USA)
From Marie Cardinal and Verena Stefan to Banana Yoshimoto: Freedom, Feminism and the Best-seller
Alexandra Kokoli (University of Sussex, UK) Les Mots pour le dire via Angst: An Unlikely Encounter with Hélène Cixous

1130 1230 - Final keynote address
Chair: Phil Powrie
Colette Trout (Ursinus, USA) Cardinal and Us: Quels Mots pour la dire?

1230 1330 - Lunch

1400 - Conference closes

Organiser: Emma Webb (University of Sheffield, UK): e.webb@sheffield.ac.uk
Venue: Tapton Hall, Crookes Road, Sheffield S10 2AZ

Partial Conference Fee:
£25 1 day /£10 postgraduate students/unwaged
£50 whole conference/£25 postgraduate students/unwaged
Full conference package:
£200 Whole conference/£150 postgraduate/unwaged
£150 Saturday and Sunday/£100 postgraduate/unwaged

For further information and booking details please contact:
Ms Annette Fletcher: The Department of French The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN
Email: a.fletcher@sheffield.ac.uk
or visit our website at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/french/gender/Cardinal.htm