Bernard Presents at Princeton Graduate Conference, “Relation(s)”
At the recent Princeton University Department of French and Italian’s Graduate Conference, Relation(s), Brittany Bernard, PhD student in our French Language & Literature program, presented a paper entitled, “Space Matters: Ruptures, Relations, and Revenants in Leïla Sebbar’s La Seine était rouge”. The paper is taken from a chapter of her dissertation entitled, “Revenants: Memory, Trauma, and the Feminine Voice in the Work of Mati Diop, Diane Kurys, Leïla Sebbar, and Alice Zeniter,” and explores the ways in which novelist, Leïla Sebbar, reconstructs French-Algerian collective memory of October 17th 1961 through fragmented word play, ellipses, silences, and various representations of multimedia (photographs, graffiti, film, testimonies), comparable to that of Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé’s 1961 décollage exhibition, La France déchirée.