Expressing the Collective in Jewish Writing from Central and Eastern Europe

Presentation

Relating Bakhtinian theories of enunciation to the conflicting utterances that underpin Jewish scriptures, the aim here is to think of Ashkenazi modernity as a form of enunciative revolution which, shifting the field of the dicible, opens up a space for subversion both in relation to its internal norm and to external models.

In a world where the implications of all speech are, by tradition, eminently collective, such contestation involves less a renunciation of the "we" than its redefinition, in dissident, conflictual and splintered forms. It is this dissemination that the various problematic cores around which the articles are articulated seek to approach, tackling the plasticity or even the internal discordance of modes of collective symbolization from the successive angles of the founding of writing communities, textual spectrality, testimony as a dialogue of experience and linguistic deterritorialization.

Interview

Editors

Fleur Kuhn-Kennedy holds a doctorate in general and comparative literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III), and is also a post-doctoral researcher at Cermom, at Inalco.

Cécile Rousselet is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature, under the direction of Carole Matheron (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) and Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University).

277 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 24/05/2018
ISBN: 9782858312719