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Alicia Rouvero, conférence et lecture, 12 et 13 mai à l’Université d’Angers

Les deux évènements  ci-dessous auront lieu dans le cadre du programme du séminaire de l’axe 2, “Nouvelles et formes brèves” du CIRPALL, à l’Université d’Angers:

Lundi 12 mai: 16h30-18h30, salle Frida Kahlo, MRGT

Conférence de Alicia Rouverol (University of Salford, Manchester), “Landscape as Sites of Contestation: A Study in Creative Practice” (en anglais)

Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope raises vital questions about the integration of time and space as it is explored in literary landscapes. In The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, in which Bakhtin defines a chronotope as ‘time space’, he acknowledges the ‘intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships’ as ‘artistically represented in literature’ (1981, p. 84). I am interested in this concept as I have recently developed a short story collection that explores spatial and time relationships through a series of stories that consider place / setting as sites for contestation. In Granite Rock and Other Stories, recently picked up and on the list for publication by Chapeltown Books / Bridge House Publishing, I examine the role of place as sites of contestation in settings across time ranging from Boston (2007) to Florida (1990s), the island of Corsica (1960s) to the island of Antigua in the West Indies (1980s). My approach to these stories seeks to complexify discussions of landscape proposed by Raymond Williams in The Country and The City, the Welsh cultural theorist who suggested that landscapes of the country may be associated ‘with the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue’ (1973, p. 1). In recent writing, I explore aridity as a metaphor for economic attrition and the effects of neoliberalism in my novel, Dry River (Bridge House Publishing, 2023), set in the more rural landscapes of Northern California, subverting Williams’ charge. My story collection, in which engagement and collision across cultures (often in rural settings), reveals a landscape that is at once native and ancient, foreign and hostile. This presentation will feature short excerpts from the collection (and thus a practice-based approach) alongside a theorising of how landscape reveals not only regional concerns and issues but reflects our broader understandings of how characters located in such sites of contestation represent a more nuanced understanding of how landscape ‘works’ in literature.   

Mardi 13 mai: 17h30-19h30, Amphithéâtre Tillion, MRGT

Événement public. Rencontre avec Alicia Rouverol et Andy Broadey pour une lecture et une exposition autour du roman Dry River (en anglais)

Reading and Exhibition: Join novelist Alicia J Rouverol and artist Andy Broadey for an event featuring a reading from Rouverol’s novel Dry River (2023) and an exhibition examining the visual imaginary of Wallace Stegner’s landmark work, Angle of Repose (1971). Broadey’s and Rouverol’s works emerged from a shared interest in narrativizing the economics of neoliberalism, which in turn led to Broadey’s cover illustration of Rouverol’s novel. Discussion, Q & A, and book purchase/signing will follow (cash only).


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Bénédicte Meillon (7 mai 2025). Alicia Rouvero, conférence et lecture, 12 et 13 mai à l’Université d’Angers. Écopoétique. Consulté le 22 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13vkr


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