CURA Colloquium: Rewriting Religion, Reinventing Gender in Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères
- Starts:
- 12:00 pm on Friday, November 22, 2019
- Ends:
- 1:30 pm on Friday, November 22, 2019
- URL:
- http://www.bu.edu/cura/colloquium-19-20/
- Address:
- 152 Bay State Rd.
- Room:
- 2nd Floor Conference Room
- Contact Organization:
- cura
- Contact Name:
- Arlene Brennan
- Contact Phone:
- 3535241
- Fees:
- free
- Speakers:
- Kelly Keenan, PhD student in French Literature, Boston University
- Audience:
- public
This paper analyses the appropriated and reinvented mythology that Wittig weaves throughout her 1969 novel/manifesto, Les Guérillères. Through her rewriting of both sacred and societal myths, Wittig offers a larger critique of the societal institutions that instill and enforce women's oppression. *Reading the working paper in advance is required for attendance.* Email cura@bu.edu for your copy. Co-sponsored with the School of Theology