A New 'Feminist' Novel? Popular Narratives and the Pleasures of Reading - Day 1
A New 'Feminist' Novel? Popular Narratives and the Pleasures of Reading - Day 1
DAY 1 – 16 June 2022
Welcome and introductions
Panel 1, chair Christopher Hogarth
Popular historical fiction
Leanne Bibby, Teesside University: ‘A Brittle Sense of History: Contemporary Women’s
Historical Novels’
Megan Henesy, Bournemouth University: ‘“A Place of Women”: Herstory and Female Agency
in Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies and A.K. Blakemore’s The Manningtree Witches’
Orsolya András, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania: ‘The Hangman’s House by Andrea
Tompa: An Intersectional Feminist Reading of Transylvanian History’
Panel 2, chair Emily Jeremiah
Feminist messages yesterday and today
Mónica Ganhão, University of Lisbon: ‘Writing Women for Nineteenth-century Readers and
Reading Women Today: The Case of Herança de Lágrimas (1871) by Ana Plácido’
Eman Abed Elkareem Hijazi, Al-Aqsa University: ‘Feminist Narrative Discourse Analysis in
Sahar Khalifeh’s Muthakirat Imra’atin Gheiru Waqea’atin (1986)’
Gareth Wood, UCL: ‘A Feminist Writes the Abusive Woman: La carne (2016) by Rosa
Montero’
Panel 3, chair Milena Romano
Engaging with readers’ affects
Cécile Lebleu, Tulane University: ‘The Feel-good Novel or the Anguish of Happiness’
Rebecca Walker, University of St Andrews: ‘Feeling Bad: The Feminist Potential of Negative
Affect in Elena Ferrante’
Conclusions from Day 1 by Rebecca Walker
Author: Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies
Organisations: Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies
Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022 - 9:00am