Gender and the body in Léonora Miano's 'Crépuscule du tourment': between fiction and friction

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https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.9.29475

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Léonora Miano, cuerpo, género, escritura femenina subsahariana

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Crépuscule du tourment, by the French-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano, offers us the opportunity to analyze the female body and gender located in the current problems of African and Afro-descendant women, in a Francophone context. Four voices unravel the bodily f(r)itions of their bodies of memory, bodies of desire, social bodies or maternal bodies. With this textual quartet, Miano celebrates a poetics of the relationship made of contact and permeability to deconstruct the bodily “folds” acquired throug atavism.

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Mª Carmen Molina Romero, University of Granada

María del Carmen Molina Romero. María del Carmen Molina Romero is a full professor at the University of Granada (Spain), where she teaches French language and linguistics in the Grado en Estudios Franceses and French literature in the Master de Lenguas y Culturas Modernas. Following a thesis and publications on Marguerite Yourcenar, she has also worked on the literary bilingualism of Franco-Spanish authors (‘Double langue et création littéraire’, Imaginaire et inconscient, 2004 (14), ‘Écrivains afrancesados au XX e siècle’, Écrivains multilingues et écritures métisses. L'hospitalité des langues , 2007). Spanish translator of Agustin Gómez Arcos's novel L'enfant-pain (Cabaret Voltaire). Since joining the Grupo de Investigación HUM 733. Filología Francesa: Estudios Lingüísticos. Literarios, an approach that focuses on writing rooted in the French language as a space for identity and expression. Exploring African women's writing, she has coordinated two publications in the Documents pour l'Histoire des Francophonies collection published by Peter Lang ( La langue qu'elles habitent. Écritures de femmes, frontières, territoires , 2020, and Écrivaines camerounaises de langue française. Voix/ voies de transmissions , 2023), participated in publications ( Cédille , Thélème ) and led debates and meetings (Colloque Écrits de femmes au coeur des Francophonies, 2024) on this subject.

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2024-12-30

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Molina Romero, M. C. (2024). Gender and the body in Léonora Miano’s ’Crépuscule du tourment’: between fiction and friction. HYBRIDA, (9), 111–129. https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.9.29475
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No. 9 (2024): LISIÈRE/S

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