Féminisme, comparaison et création

Feminism, Comparison and Creation — volume resulting from the study day “Is there a female art? Toward a gendered approach to comparatism” (8 March 2019)

Literary tradition has, in practice (if not in principle), been predominantly male. As a result, women scholars, critics, and theorists—particularly comparatists—face more than a challenge: they confront a territory to (re)conquer.

Is female comparative writing a tool for independence? Does comparatism from a female perspective function as a form of feminine speech? And can one speak of a reflexive or mimetic proximity/distance between these two practices—female discourse and comparative discourse? Is female comparatist discourse (if such a thing exists) an ideal, a means, a medium? Does it involve subjectivity or singularity?

Around fifteen comparatists from around the world, from the United States to Macau via Colombia, Hungary, Switzerland, and Ukraine, gathered to address these questions.

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