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Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Discours littéraire et pensée féministe De Simone de Beauvoir à Simone Schwarz-Bart

Buata B. Malela

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Literary Discourse and Feminist Thought. From Simone de Beauvoir to Simone Schwarz-Bart

This article aims to rethink the social and literary trajectory of Simone Schwarz-Bart in the 1960s and 1970s in the francophone intellectual field. The paper discusses her views on gender relations, her relationship to the feminist movement and some of its prominent figures (e.g. Simone de Beauvoir and Monique Wittig). Finally, the impact of feminism on her literary production is analyzed.

Key words: francophone literature, black feminism, french literature, feminism, gender studies.




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Selective Import: French Feminist Theory and Anglophone Critical Discourses

Tymon Adamczewski

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The article aims to sketch the reception and the representations of French feminist discourses in the Anglo-American critical theory starting from the early 1970s. It situates French Feminism within the field of French Theory, a notion created in the Anglophone critical discourses, and analyses the meanings ascribed to both terms. Through a historicised discussion of the appropriation of the French theories — for a long time limited to the propositions of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray — the text also attempts to present the popular critical moves (selectiveness and standardisation) in this process. What follows constitutes a brief analysis of the reasons and responses to the propagation of French feminism as a reductive construct. The article concludes registering a change in more contemporary approaches which attempt to move beyond the initial label.


Key words: French Theory, French feminism, theoretical discourse, poststructuralism.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Pertinences et apories d’une lecture féministe de La Princesse de Clèves au regard de la théorie queer

François-Ronan Dubois

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Insights and Limitations of a Feminist Reading of La Princesse de Clèves According to Queer Theory


Often interpreted from the feminist perspective, La Princesse de Clèves has come to represent a tale of feminine oppression and feminine heroism. As enlightening as such a reading may be, this paper seeks to further explore the gendered identities at stake in the novel, with the help of a Nietzschean queer theory. Underlining the role of Madame de Clèves in the economy of desire that constructs space and power in the world of the text is an important step toward a more subtle understanding of the narrative.

Key words: Clèves, Lafayette, queer, feminism, 17th century.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Woman as a Subaltern in Canadian Literature

Ewa Bodal

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The article takes as its subject the possibility of perceiving women as constituting a distinct subgroup of the subaltern. Following a theoretical introduction to this concept, the article focuses on the practical application of the notion in Canadian literature, discussing the two major female-authored Canadian novels published in the 1970s, that is Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners. Although Atwood’s and Laurence’s novels highlight the influences of the opposite colonial centres, the postcolonial situations and reflections of the main female characters appear quite similar. Indeed, both Atwood’s narrator and Laurence’s Morag Gunn seem to be depicted as doubly colonised: as women, and as Canadians. However, there exists a possibility of reading the protagonists as occasionally acting from a position of superiority towards those subaltern to them, namely the Native population.


Key words: Canadian literature, feminism, postcolonialism, subalternity.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Las voces del ahogo y el desahogo: poesía feminista guatemalteca contemporánea en la obra de Ana María Rodas y Luz Méndez de la Vega

Weronika Mehlbauer

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Voices of the Opression and Solace: Contemporary Guatemalan Feminist Poetry in the Works of Ana María Rodas and Luz Méndez de la Vega

Guatemala, a country with a long patriarchal history, has always been a place of marginalization for its women. Nowadays, the works of the female writers are still being underestimated and rarely appear next to their male colleagues in the national anthologies. There are two principal aims of the present work. The first one is to analyse the poems of the two most prominent female representatives of the Guatemalan feminist poetry: Ana María Rodas and Luz Méndez de la Vega, in order to reclaim their legitimate place in the canon of the Guatemalan literature. The second one it to expose a difficult situation of the contemporary Guatemalan women, and their literary struggle for the right to have their own voice, to reexpress themselves and to break with the traditional roles imposed by the patriarchal society.

Key words: Ana María Rodas, Luz Méndez de la Vega, feminism, Guatemala, poetry.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Kamouraska d’Anne Hébert et Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ Un même « discours » féministe ?

Mbaye Diouf

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Kamouraska by Anne Hébert and Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ. A Shared Feminist “Discourse”?

Exploring a research angle never yet investigated by literary critics, this text proposes a comparative analysis of novels by writers Anne Hébert, of Québec, and Mariama Bâ, of Senegal. The study joins a new research domain by integrating literatures of the “North” and those of the “South”. Relations between men and women constitute a major focus in the novels, suggesting a social interrogation shared by both authors, as well as a common preoccupation for the feminine condition. Novels such as Kamouraska and Une si longue lettre seem to rewrite Augustinian libidos only through a systematic denunciation of religious and patriarchal discourse that declasses feminine subjects in the two societies. Their narrative and enunciative dispositions therefore organise literary subjects who, although particular in the works of each author, express, in a solidary manner, another way of being, as well as a “gendered” point of view.


Key words: Anne Hébert, Mariama Bâ, novel, discourse, feminism, enunciation, Québec, Sénégal.

Kamouraska by Anne Hébert and Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ. A Shared Feminist “Discourse”?

Exploring a research angle never yet investigated by literary critics, this text proposes a comparative analysis of novels by writers Anne Hébert, of Québec, and Mariama Bâ, of Senegal. The study joins a new research domain by integrating literatures of the “North” and those of the “South”. Relations between men and women constitute a major focus in the novels, suggesting a social interrogation shared by both authors, as well as a common preoccupation for the feminine condition. Novels such as Kamouraska and Une si longue lettre seem to rewrite Augustinian libidos only through a systematic denunciation of religious and patriarchal discourse that declasses feminine subjects in the two societies. Their narrative and enunciative dispositions therefore organise literary subjects who, although particular in the works of each author, express, in a solidary manner, another way of being, as well as a “gendered” point of view.


Key words: Anne Hébert, Mariama Bâ, novel, discourse, feminism, enunciation, Québec, Sénégal.

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