Colloque

La mise en scène du féminin à travers la fiction culinaire

Ankita Haldar Ankita Haldar

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Ankita Haldar Ankita Haldar

Résumé de la communication

What gives identity to a woman? What bestows her with a difference? It is her biological uniqueness, her body and her sexuality. With all her periodic discharges including milk and the scars of labour, her body is the site of memory making her different within the category of ‘gender’ itself. But looking at the female experiences in literature one can perhaps identify a new marker attaching itself to this discourse of identity and difference, that of the female experience narrated in a female Language. But what is female language? A glance at the narrative style, imagery and vocabulary used in select culinary obsessed texts by women writers shows food functioning as language, as a tool for the self-fashioning of the female identity, competing with language itself. How does food theorize the body, identity of women and redress socio-cultural-gender issues? How does food make the woman as the ‘Other’ figure? Does it give them any choice, need or notion of escape? How it becomes a technique in women’s literature? Food becomes a site of reviewing and re-viewing; a channel for women to indulge in monologues and dialogues with themselves and with other women through sharing of recipes, experiences thus creating not only narratives of their own lives but also encouraging the creation of a gender specific readership, a sisterhood.

Résumé du colloque

Le 11 mai en soirée, le documentaire "Les Fros" (ONF, 2010) sera présenté. La réalisatrice, Stéphanie Lanthier, sera présente et fera une brève allocution pour présenter son film et répondra aux questions du public après le visionnement. Le 12 mai en soirée aura lieu le vernissage de l’exposition « Projet Stanstead ou comment traverser la frontière » à la galerie d’art Foreman de Bishop’s. L'événement est une collaboration entre la galerie et notre colloque. Le grand public, les chercheurs présents au colloque et les artistes pourront échanger lors de ce cocktail-vernissage.