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Approches comparatistes de la relation entrela voix et le genre - Comparative Approaches to Voice/Gender Articulation
« Global Languages, Local Cultures »: American Comparative Literature Association's 2009 Annual Meeting Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009
Séminaire bilingue (anglais/français) co-organisé par Véronique Gély (Université deParis IV, CRLC ; William J. Spurlin, University of Sussex ; AnneTomiche, Université de Paris 13, CENEL) au sein du congrès annuel de l'AmericanComparative Literature Association : « Global Languages, LocalCultures », Harvard University (USA), du 26 au 29 mars 2009
Vendredi 27 mars 2009
Chair: William J Spurlin (University of Sussex)
1. Véronique Gély, U Paris IV: "Quelle(s) voix pour l'oratrice ?"
2. Anne Tomiche, U of Paris 13: " Philomela's Voices"
3. Patricia R. Nedelea, Central European U: " Re-Queering Shakespeare through the Italian Sources for Measure forMeasure, TheMerchant of Venice, and Othello"
Samedi 28 mars 2009
Chair: Véronique Gély (Université de Paris IV, Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée, EA 2571)
1. Anne Marcoline, UC Santa Barbara: "TheMusical Body and the Female Voice in the Works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and GeorgeSand"
2. Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, U of Texas, Austin: "WhoWould Listen? The Dissonance of the Self in Mallarmé, Rilke, and Schönberg"
3. Pierre Zoberman, U Paris 13: "From (Homo)Sexuality to Gender (Mis)Identification: Voices and Identityin Proust"
4. Patrick Mullen, Northeastern U: "Oscar Wilde and the Labor of Expression"
Dimanche 29 mars 2009
Chair: Anne Tomiche (Université de Paris 13, Centre de Recherche sur les Nouveaux Espaces Littéraires, EA 452)
1. Margaret R. Higonnet, U of Connecticut, Storrs: " Voicing Gender Identities in Literature of World War I"
2. Christina H. Rudosky, UC Boulder: "The Narratological Performativity within Virginia Woolf's Orlando"
3. William J. Spurlin, U of Sussex: "Affective/Erotic Bonds between Indigenous Women in Southern Africa: New Articulations of Postcolonial, Feminist, and Queer Comparative Work"
As issues of gender and sexuality have become an important lens for the analysis of literature and culture, the status and the role of the body in the construction of gender identities have come under scrutiny in most approaches concerned with gender and sexuality. Narrower than the larger question of “the body”, theorizations of the voice also need to be posed through the inscription of gender. In the 1980s, in the wake of essays such as Nancy Miller's “Emphasis added” or Patricia Klindienst Joplin's “The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours,” research on gendered voices mainly concentrated on the quest for a gendered feminine voice. Since then, the “masculine” has emerged as a problematic category, and a queer comparative approach to the notion of gendered/gendering voice needs to address that category as well. This seminar will investigate the many ways in which texts, conceived in the broadest and most inclusive sense (literature, poetry, film, opera, theory, etc), problematize the articulation between voice and gender in a variety of historical periods, ranging from Antiquity to the present day. How do various approaches to theorizing the voice – the mythological models of the poetic voice, the rhetorical models of the voice of eloquence, the “scientific” and medical models for the evolution of the voice, the classical musical models, etc. – inscribe the issue of gender? Are there notable shifts in such models across history and cultures? How is the question of the articulation between voice and gender framed outside the context of western sexualities and histories? What are the specificities of postcolonial voices/narratives in relation to the issues of gender and sexuality?