Infos
Strasbourg
Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg
Table ronde précédée de la projection du documentaire Méditerranéennes, la force des femmes à 17h à la Bnu
En partenariat avec le Parlement des écrivaines francophones, l’Université de Strasbourg et le Festival Strasbourg Méditerranée
Artists
Danielle Michel-Chich, Georgia Makhlouf, Béatrice Riand
Écrivaines
Modérée par Salomé Pastor
Doctorante à l’Université de Strasbourg
Presentation
How should we write about war? How can literature bear witness to the wounds war inflicts on our bodies and souls, to the uprooting it causes, to the silence it enforces?
Three members of the Parliament of Francophone Writers explore these questions through a dialogue between their lives and their works: Danielle Michel-Chich, who in Lettre à Zhora D. recalls surviving the terrorist attack in Algeria in 1956; Georgia Makhlouf, whose Les Absents speaks of exile and the memory of the Lebanese Civil War; and Béatrice Riand, a Catalan–Swiss writer who explores the divisions in Catalan society in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.
The three writers ask questions about how literature can serve as a record of history, honor the dead and put memories into words. An essential discussion on the role of women writers in the work of remembrance and on the power of stories in coming to terms with past violence.