IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 126: Women's Strategies of Memory, I: Trauma and Reconstruction
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Lucy Allen, Newnham College, University of Cambridge Emma Bridget O'Loughlin Bérat, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ruen-chuan Ma, Department of English & Literature, Utah Valley University |
| Paper 126-a | A Textile Habitus of Memory in Chaucer's Legend of Philomela (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Women's Studies |
| Paper 126-b | Hanna the Maccabi: A Healing and Restorative Memory from a Feminine Sexual Trauma in the Rabbinic Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic, Women's Studies |
| Paper 126-c | Re-Membering the Drowned: The Rebellious Recollection of Noah's Wife in the York, Chester, and Towneley Flood Pageants (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Performance Arts - Drama, Women's Studies |
| Paper 126-d | Revising 'Remembrance': Custance's Strategies of Memory in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Abstract | Memory was widely accessible to medieval women as means of personal and political influence. Our series of three panels examines how women used and created strategic representations of the past to serve their own present or future purposes, including those of their kin and communities. This panel focuses on literary representations of women's tactics for managing and revising personal traumatic memory, as well as the place of these memories in broader memorial discourses. Examining Rabbinic literature to crusader romance and English cycle plays, speakers explore how female characters' deliberate reconstructions help to resist supersessionary retellings and to insert - in sensitive, healing, or aggressive ways - women's perspectives into histories that seek to erase them. |