This panel is one of five Women in French sessions at the 2021 South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference, taking place this year in Atlanta, Georgia from November 4-6.

Presenters must be current members of Women in French and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Francophone Womxn Creating Apart and Connecting Together

Comparing the Incomparable:

International Comparative Literature as Decentered Cross-Cultural Dialogue

(An ICL Young Scholar Forum

2021 Series: Panel No. 2)

Conference Time/Venue: Sept. 12, 2021/virtual event

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 30, 2021

Deadline for Full Paper Submission: July 31, 2021

Contact Person: Ying Xiong, yxiong@shnu.edu.cn

Organizer: The Editorial Office of International Comparative Literature

Hosts: The Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Shanghai Normal University (SHNU)

ROUNDTABLE NARRATIVES AND MENTAL HEALTH (South Atlantic MLA, November 4–6, 2021, Atlanta/Georgia)

“Revision does not always guarantee improvement; successive drafts do not always lead to a clearer vision. You can’t just change the words around and get the ideas right.” 

Nancy Sommers, “Between the Drafts,” 1992 

International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture” is a peer reviewed journal which accepts high quality research articles. It is a quarterly published international journal and is available to all researchers who are interested in publishing their scientific achievements. We welcome submissions focusing on theories, methods and applications in Linguistics, Literature and Culture, both articles and book reviews. All articles must be in English.

http://ijllc.eu/

In texts representing women and their lives, the physical spaces and items a woman has access to or desires, are often indicative of her social position, emotions, and/or psychological state. In the well-known example of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela for instance, owning and being able to wear her mistress’ clothes is an indication that Pamela is socially higher than the other servants in the household. Her access to these clothes is also read (by those around her) as a sign that she is morally compromised; she in turn sees this access as part of her suffering.