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- Fjelkestam, Kristina, 1967-
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Den estetiska vändningen?
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; 34:4, s. 22-28
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- Fjelkestam, Kristina, 1967-
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Den sentimentala romanen och kampen för medborgarskap : Rousseaus Julie och Staëls Delphine
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Ingår i: Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studes. - : Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier, Sverige och Finska sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier. - 1652-4772. ; 2009, s. 22-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The tragic fates of a great number of women in sentimental novels of the eighteenth century can be viewed against the background of classic liberal theory. They provide examples of how individual freedom and restraint in the name of the common good can be reconciled. Faced with the impossible choice between a life guided by the principle of love and that of virtue, women often choose self-sacrifice as a means of preserving a sense of individuality in the face of the demands of public universality. The epistolary novels, Julie ou La nouvelle Héloïse (1761) of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Delphine (1802) of Germaine de Staël, present two rather different treatments of this problem. Rousseau´s Julie is a woman whose unquenchable desire transforms her into a prototype of female unreliability not worthy of societal recognition. Staël´s Delphine, in turn, unmasks a ruthless and unpricipled society which prohibits her from becoming its full-fledged member.
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- Fjelkestam, Kristina, 1967-
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Gendering Cultural Memory : Balzac's Adieu
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525. ; 5, s. 239-249
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- In this essay I examine the en-gendering of cultural memory in Honoré de Balzac´s story Adieu (1830), which proceeds from a repressed trauma originating inhistorical events. Balzac wrote the story in the spring of 1830, i. e. at a time whenthe French discontent with the Restoration regime was soon to explode in the JulyRevolution. The story is considered to claim that the Restoration regime’s repressionof revolutionary history will recieve serious consequences in the present. Butthe question is how the now of the Restoration can best be linked to the then of theRevolution and the Empire? How can history be represented in a productive way,without silencing traumatic memories? My suggestion is that the abyss betweennow and then has to be met with an ethically informed respect for difference. Stéphanie,the protagonist, dies when Philippe creates an exact replica of the traumaticsituation in which they were separated many years ago. She then became a sexslave to the retiring French army, dehumanized during the hard Russian campaign,an experience that also dehumanized her. This Philippe refuses toacknowledge, since he wants to retrieve the woman he knew. That can of coursenever happen, but in insisting on it, I would claim that he actually renders Stéphanieslife after the trauma impossible. Instead of emphasizing the distinction betweenpast and present, Philippe overlooks it, with the severe consequence of Stéphanie’sdeath. In my analysis I relate to pertinent discussions in the interdisciplinaryfield of cultural memory studies (an expanding field of research within thewider frame of cultural studies), but since it rarely discusses gender aspects I findit essential to relate also to feminist scholars who continually have scrutinizedissues concerning memory and history writing.
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