L’acte autobiographique chez les romanciers nord-américains :
Irruption de la non-fiction
North-American Novelists’ Autobiographical Acts:
Nonfictional Disruptions
Sophie Vallas (Aix-Marseille Université, LERMA)
Arnaud Schmitt (Université de Bordeaux, CLIMAS)
PROGRAMME
L’acte autobiographique chez les romanciers nord-américains :
irruption de la non-fiction
North American Novelists’ Autobiographical Acts: Nonfictional Disruptions
Thursday 6 July 2023
9.00: Welcome coffee and opening of the conference
SESSION 1
Chair: Arnaud Schmitt
9.30-10.00 : Claudine Raynaud (Pr emerita, University Paul Valery-Montpellier, France) : “‘Like a hog under an acorn tree?’ Probing the Thwarted Fate of Hurston’s Dust on Tracks on a Road (1942)”
10.00-10.30 : Lucas Cantinelli (PhD student, Aix Marseille University, France): “‘The prison of ‘I’: autobiography as contradiction in Toni Morrison’s writings”
Pause
10.45-11.15 : Beatrice Mousli (Pr, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USA): “Autofiction in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence”
11.15: discussion
Lunch
SESSION 2
Chair: Claudine Raynaud
14.00-14.30 : Héloïse Thomas (PRAG, University Bordeaux-Montaigne, France): “Life, Writing, and the Pursuit of Queerness: Queered Autobiographies as Ars Poetica for Fiction”
14.30-15.00 : David Lombard (PhD student, University of Liège, Belgium) : “Exploring the Rhetorics and Narratologies of the Contemporary American Environmental Memoir and Novel: the Case of the Sublime”
Pause
15.15-15.45 : Adriana Haben (PRAG, Dr, University Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France): “‘More interested in life than in art’: James Agee’s works, at the intersection of documentary and autobiography”
15.45 : discussion
Dinner in town
Friday 7 July 2023
SESSION 3
Chair: Sylvie Mathé
9.30-10.00 : Tanya Tromble (PRAG, Dr, Aix-Marseille University, France): “To what extent is Oates’s life reflected autobiographically in her fiction?”
10.00-10.30 : Agnieszka Rzepa (Pr, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland): “‘Water is the first thing in my imagination … Water is the first thing in my memory’: Drifting with Dionne Brand”
Pause
10.45-11.15 : Anne Myrup-Green (Writer and Post-Doctoral Student, Aarhus University), “Hemingway’s Rewriting of the Literary History of the Lost Generation”
Farewell drink