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Professor Brigitte Weltman-Aron, University of Florida: "Whales and Disaster: Hélène Cixous on the Figure of Jonah”

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
The Department of French and Italian, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, through the France@Illinois Center of Excellence.
Location
2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)
Date
Dec 10, 2019   5:00 pm  
Speaker
Professor Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Florida
Cost
Free and open to the public.
Contact
Professor Laurence Mall
E-Mail
lmall@illinois.edu
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Abstract: The talk will focus on Hélène Cixous's recourse to the figure of Jonah in her short story "Jonah's Whale," which rewrites the Biblical Book of Jonah, concentrating on Jonah's response to the calling of his name, the significance of mastery when it aims to obliterate others, and the notion of responsibility to others.

     

Brigitte Weltman-Aron is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of  On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century England and France (SUNY Press, 2001). She also works on contemporary francophone literature and is the author of  Algerian Imprints : Ethical Spacein the Works of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous (Columbia UP, 2015).​ Her current book project examines the association of whales with catastrophic destruction or the anticipation of the end of the world in literature.

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