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Nathalie Sarraute.
Literature and ethics, focusing especially on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
Postcolonial theory and literature (Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Gayatri Spivak, Kamel Daoud).
Subjectivity and the novel.
Literary performativity (Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller).
Contemporary French cinema (Abdellatif Kechiche).
Albert Camus.
Marcel Proust.
French novels and short stories from the 17th to the 21th century.
Postcolonial literature and theory.
Autobiography.
Narrative theory and the novel as genre.
The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
- (2020). Gardien du frère – fils du gardien. Frères et étrangers dans Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud. Études françaises. 137-156.
- (2019). Voix, silences et colonialisme. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS).
- (2013). "Actes de langage dans La Princesse de Clèves". Arena Romanistica. 118-140.
- (2012). "Éthique et perspectives postcoloniales : sujet, altérité, langage. Emmanuel Lévinas, Aimé Césaire et Édouard Glissant". Arena Romanistica. 52-75.
- (2014). Individu, altérité, histoire coloniale: figurations fictives de Sara Baartman, la 'Vénus Hottentote.
- (2014). "De Sisyphe à la révolte : individu et communauté dans la philosophie de Camus".
- (2012). "Etikk og litteratur hos Emmanuel Lévinas". Innledningsforedrag til paneldebatt.
- (2022). Facing the Plague: Albert Camus and Judith Butler Revisited in Times of Pandemic (and War) .
- (2022). Brorskap og ørkenvandring: Krig, eksil og relasjoner i Albert Camus' novelle "L'Hôte".
- (2021). The Ageing Self in Nathalie Sarraute’s Here (1995).
- (2019). Brothers and keepers, strangers and assassins: expressions of (post)colonial exile in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête.
- (2018). "Literary representations of exile and fatherland in colonial and postcolonial Algeria: Guy de Maupassant, Albert Camus, Kamel Daoud".
- (2018). "Exile and Nomadism in French literature".
- (2017). Voix, silences et colonialisme.
- (2014). "The male gaze, the suffering female body and spectatorial involvement in Abdellatif Kechiche's Vénus noire and Carl Th. Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc".
- (2013). Postcolonial citizenship and the figure of woman: The case of the 'Hottentot Venus'.
- (2013). From La Vénus Hottentote ou Haine aux Françaises (1814) to Vénus noire (2010): Recurrent veils, same silences?
- (2012). Lévinas et le postcolonialisme.
- (2019). Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices. Brill Academic Publishers.
- (2007). Éthique et esthétique dans l'oeuvre de Nathalie Sarraute. Le paradoxe du sujet.
- (2006). Le paradoxe du sujet. Éthique et esthétique dans l’œuvre de Nathalie Sarraute (Subjektets paradoks. Etikk og estetikk i Nathalie Sarrautes forfatterskap).
- (2019). Refiguring Black Venus. Preliminary Considerations. 18 pages.
- (2019). Gazes, Faces, Hands: Othering Objectification and Spectatorial Surrender in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Vénus noire and Carl Th. Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc.
- (2017). Negociating Cinematic Staging of Colonial Past in the Blogosphere: Abellatif Kechiche's Vénus noire. 28 pages.
- (2016). "The Hottentot Venus is Unavailable for Comment": Questioning Representation through Aesthetic Practices. 23 pages.
- (2014). "Emotion, Knowledge, Alterity: Aesthetic Experience in Proust". 30 pages.
- (2010). The Reader Address as Performativity in Nathalie Sarraute's L'Usage de la parole. 27 pages.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Individu, altérité, histoire coloniale : représentations fictives de Sara Baartman, la «Vénus Hottentote» (Individual, alterity, colonial history: Fictional representations of Sara Baartman, "The Hottentot Venus").
Individual postdoc project (2014-2017) intiated by a cooperation with Professor Zeljka Svrljuga (IF) and Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt (SKOK) on Sara Baartman and the trope of Black Venus.
Together, we organized the conference "Black Venus" in Bergen 10-11 April 2014: https://www.uib.no/fremmedsprak/71202/konferansen-black-venus-body-desire-figuration-and-narrative
Project publications:
https://brill.com/view/title/55175
https://brill.com/display/book/9789004407916/BP000010.xml
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-51765-4_13
https://bells.uib.no/index.php/bells/article/view/1462
TAS, «Text, Action, Space». Performative language and topographical patterns as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film.
Inter-disciplinary international research group organized by Professor Lars Sætre (LLE, UiB, project leader), Professor Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus Universitet), and Professor Patrizia Lombardo (Université de Genève).
Project publications:
https://en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/e/exploring-textual-action/
https://en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/e/exploring-text-and-emotions/
https://en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/e/exploring-text,-media,-and-memory/