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The Representation of the Community in Postmodern Women Writers and Filmmakers (France and the Francophone Countries)

Start date
01/01/2009
Finish date
01/01/2011
Code
FFI2008-03621/FILO
Institution
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
Program
National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation, D.G.I (Ministry of Education and Science, Spain)
Research projects
Principal Investigator(s)
Marta Segarra
(Centre Dona i Literatura-Universitat de Barcelona)
Research Team
Rodrigo Andrés
(Centre Dona i Literatura-Universitat de Barcelona)
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Anne Berger
(Centre de recherche en Études Féminines et en Études de Genre-Université Paris 8-Vincennes à Saint-Denis)
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Marie-France Borot
(Universitat de Barcelona)
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Nora Catelli
(Centre Dona i Literatura-Universitat de Barcelona)
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Rosa de Diego
(Universidad del País Vasco)
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Helena González Fernández
(Centre Dona i Literatura-Universitat de Barcelona)
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Ana González Salvador
(Centro de Estudios sobre la Bélgica Francófona-Universidad de Extremadura)
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Joana Masó
(Universitat de Barcelona)
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María Jesús Pacheco
(Universidad de Extremadura)
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Joana Sabadell-Nieto
(Centre Dona i Literatura-University at Albany-SUNY)
Predoctoral research staff in training
María Teresa Vera Rojas
(Centre Dona i Literatura-Universitat de Barcelona)
Summary

The project "The Representation of the Community in Postmodern Women Writers and Filmmakers (France and the Francophone Countries)" aims to reflect on the concept of community in women's writing of contemporaneity, extending the reflection of the first project ("The representation of desire in writers and filmmakers of postmodernity") around the subject and the Other. In the last thirty years, the concept of community and of the "common" suffered a great discredit -which culminated with the end of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall-, but some thinkers -especially Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Stanley Fish, etc - have continued to reflect on the "community." In addition, since the end of the 20th century the concept of the community  as a space of resistance and criticism and as a political strategy against hegemonic power has gained strength -with Zygmunt Bauman and Judith Butler, for example. Especially relevant are the "communities of those who do not have a community" (Bataille), which appear as places of subversion -but which can, in turn, become hegemonic and uniform powers.

 

Objectives

  1. Carry out a comparative study of film and literary works produced by women (during postmodernity) in relation to the concept of community.
  2. Reflect critically on the concept of community in contemporaneity from the perspectives of gender and sexual difference.
  3. Analyze the tension between the feeling of belonging to a national / geographical community and to a linguistic community, especially in peninsular and postcolonial literatures.
  4. Study the tension between the feeling of belonging to a literary / national community and the feeling of exclusion from the homosocial parameters that characterize the formation of a literary or national canon in writing by women.

Photo: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Dancing Figures

https://www.ub.edu/adhuc/en/node/558