Papers by Sonja Stojanovic
Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, 2020
This essay investigates, through a reading of contemporary French fiction, the politics of naming... more This essay investigates, through a reading of contemporary French fiction, the politics of naming “the help.” It considers how cleaning ladies are both rendered hypervisible and required to be invisible; it examines how they tidy up the narration, while performing what one could term a perverse effet de réel.
Women in French Studies, 2018
"M comme Mère, M comme Monstre" - Sextant: Revue de la Structure de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Genre, l’Égalité et la Sexualité (STRIGES), 2015
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity - eds. Petra M. Bagley, Francesca Calamita, Kathryn Robson, 2017
Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 2015
While it has been argued by proponents of surface reading that ghosts should be "just read," a cl... more While it has been argued by proponents of surface reading that ghosts should be "just read," a closer analysis of contemporary French writer Marie Darrieussecq's oeuvre reveals that ghosts cannot be read only in terms of what they may represent; one must rather take into account what they do and how they are produced. Through Darrieussecq's spectral engagement with her own work, and following Jacques Derrida's invitation to consider ghosts as possibility, this article reads ghosts as metafictional figures appearing within the text's own fabric and not external to it; it also questions the reader's involvement in the conjuration of ghosts.
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Papers by Sonja Stojanovic