Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing
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- ISBN 9780198916734
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 162 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational lives. It broadens the parameters of existing discussions in terms of geography as well as genre, drawing together two literatures whose prominence in life-writing theory to date could hardly be more different: while French women's writing has long been at the centre of international discussions of autobiography, the relative invisibility of Spanish women's writing remains striking. The dialogue that thus underpins this study, between diverse twenty-first-century case studies and broader approaches to life-writing, shines a light on what is gained from inviting different voices into the discussion. These narrative projects challenge longstanding critical assumptions in autobiography studies and trauma theory about how writers can and should represent the multiple perspectives that are at the heart of intergenerational stories. In exploring the narrative solutions that these texts propose in response to the ethical questions they navigate, this book shows that writing relational lives rests on far more than the mere recounting of a shared history. 'Relating' in these texts, it proposes, is an act embedded in the telling of the story. It is a mode of testifying together to traumatic experience, one that reveals a powerful preoccupation in contemporary women's life-writing practice with making more audible the many voices and versions that go unheard.
Hannie Lawlor is Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature and Film at Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College, University of Oxford. Previously, she was Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin, and she holds a PhD from Wolfson College, Oxford. Her comparative research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spanish women's prose and film and on twenty-first-century life narratives, and with Dr Alexandra Effe, she is co-editor of The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
