Les Sorcières de la République de Chloé Delaume : Entre normalisation de la dystopie et dénaturalisation des normes

Abstract

This article proposes to examine the theoretical and critical “new normality” of the figure of the witch, as well as its limits in Chloé Delaume’s Les Sorcières de la République (2016). In doing so, it also seeks to question the performative power of literary discourse (by analogy with magical and political speech) and the definition of a possible “sororal” literary canon.

Keywords:

• Witches
• feminisms
• performativity
• dystopia
• denaturalization
• literary canon

Notes

1 Silvia Federici, Caliban et la sorcière, Paris, Éditions Entremonde; Marseille, Senonevero, 2014.

2 Émilie Hache, Reclaim. Recueil de textes écoféministes, Paris, Éditions Cambourakis (Sorcières), 2016.

3 Starhawk, Rêver l’obscur. Femmes, magie et politique, Paris, Éditions Cambourakis (Sorcières), 2015.

4 Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1949.

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Flavia Bujor

Flavia Bujor holds a Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature entitled “A Poetics of Strangeness: Body Plasticity and the Materiality of Power (Suzette Mayr, Marie NDiaye and Yoko Tawada),” which is to be published by Peter Lang (“European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics” collection). She specializes in contemporary literature, with an emphasis on gender and postcolonial studies.