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Nancy, June 2010




Routes out of marginalization:
Gender and narrative practice in novels by German-speaking women, 1780-1914.

This conference is organized, 24 and 25 June 2010, by the Centre d’études germaniques interculturelles de Lorraine (CEGIL, University of Nancy 2), and the Centrum für Postcolonial und Gender Studies (Cepog, University of Trier). It also takes place in the context of the international network "New approaches to European Women's Writing" (NEWW). Conference language is German.

Recent narratological research, especially into Anglophone literature, has demonstrated convincingly the fundamental significance of the category "gender" in narrative texts, not only within the characterization of figures, but also as a factor affecting all communicative aspects of the narrative (cf. Vera Nünning/Ansgar Nünning, Erzähltextanalyse und Gender Studies, p. 13). Summing up the results of this research, Ina Schabert notes that female writers have sought to define their own voices by reformulating male literary norms, which tend to objectify women. Female writers tell their own, different, story destabilising the narrative patterns established by male writers as they infringe the prescribed narratological grammar. (Ina Schabert, Englische Literaturgeschichte. Eine neue Darstellung aus der Sicht der Geschlechterforschung, p. 13).

Focusing on novels and stories by German-speaking women in the late 18th century and 19th century, a period when female authors contributed in great measure to the development and differentiation of the novel as a genre, the conference attempts to put this alliance between narratological and gender studies into practice by discussing the relationship between the historical and cultural location of women’s writing and the narrative strategies employed by female authors.


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