Female Body Horror in Contemporary Literature

Konferenz zu Female Body Horror in Contemporary Literature

Ablauf:

Fr, 21. November

• 13:30: Eröffnungsrede von Florencia Sannders 

  Horror around the Reproductive Body: Motherhood - Menopause

• 14:00-14:30: Anastasiia Danyliuk Monstrous Corporeality of Maternal Bodies in Sophie White’s Where I End
• 14:30-15:00: Bárbara Aranda Becoming Monstrous: Menopause as Body Horror in Mariana Enríquez´s Metamorphosis

• 15:00-15:30: Amanda Böhm ‘Worms in the Body’: Environmental Body Horror in Samanta Schweblin´s Fever Dream (2015)

  (Female Horror) Body-Politics

• 16:00-16:30: Marina Gamba Writing Excess: Abjection and Bodily Vulnerability in Fernanda Melchor´s Hurricane Season (2017)

• 16:30-17:00: Simon Prahl Queer Body Horror in Monique Wittig’s Le Corps lesbien (1973)

  18:00-19:00: Gespräch mit der chilenischen Autorin Carolina Brown

  20:00: Essen in der Markthalle Acht 

Sa, 22. November 

       Horror in other Genres: Female Body in Science Fiction and Dystopias

• 10:00-10:30: Florencia Sannders Dystopian Imaginaries of Surrogate Motherhood in Contemporary Spanish American Novels

• 10:30-11:00: Cordelia Winters Monstrosities, Mutations, Motherhood. Female Body Horror as Resistant Narrative in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love (1989)

  Metamorphosis: Body Horror as Motif

• 11:30-12:00: Franziska Müller Beauty and the Beast vs. the Single Female Monster: Female Body Horror as a (Conscious) Resistance to the Male Gaze
• 12:00-12:30: Marie Krebs Beyond the Physical and the Metaphorical: How Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt (2022) Reconfigures Women’s Embodiment
• 13:30-14:00: Manjima Sarkar Invisible Flesh: Beauty, Horror and the Unmaking of the Female Body in The Substance and The Vegetarian (online)

• 14:00-14:30: Stephanie Kunzemann Tracing Horror through Hidden Reading Guides: Linguistic Cues of Fascination and Fear in Eugen Egner’s ‘Katharina’

  14:30-15:00: Abschluss

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