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Reading Through Post-War French Fiction by Sonja Klara Stojanovic Spectral Preoccupations: Reading through Post-War French Fiction By Sonja Klara Stojanovic B.S. / B.A. Andrews University M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A. University of Notre Dame M.A. Brown University A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of French Studies at Brown University Providence, RI May 2017 © Copyright 2017 by Sonja Klara Stojanovic This dissertation by Sonja Klara Stojanovic is accepted in its present form by the Department of French Studies as satisfying the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Date Thangam Ravindranathan, Advisor Recommended to the Graduate Council Date David Wills, Reader Date Elissa Marder, Reader Approved by the Graduate Council Date Andrew G. Campbell, Dean of the Graduate School iii Curriculum Vitae Sonja Klara Stojanovic was born in 1984 in Strasbourg, France. After moving to Austria, she received her Matura (High School diploma) in 2003. She completed her higher education in the United States, receiving a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in French from Andrews University. She also received her M.A. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and her M.A. in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2010. She has taught English as a foreign language in Rennes and Angers, France. At Brown since 2010, she has been teaching French language in the Department of French Studies, where she received her M.A. in 2013. She continued with her doctoral studies and successfully defended her dissertation in August 2016. iv Acknowledgements I am indebted to Thangam Ravindranathan in more ways than I can count. I would like to thank her for her advice and support, for the gift of her time, for not being deterred by my dangling modifiers, Gallicisms, and issues with punctuation, for encouraging me to reach ever further, to think more pointedly, more radically, and for showing me how to attend to the intricacies of language, for showing me how she thinks and for her many comments on my work, for the generosity and depth with which she read – many times over – countless drafts, papers, and articles, for guiding by example, for teaching me what it means to be a scholar of literature, and certainly for the many exchanges about life: Merci ! It is a debt that will remain en souffrance until, perhaps, one day I can have the pleasure to pay it forward. My two readers have haunted my own readings long before I ever had the pleasure of meeting them; their incisive and powerful engagement with texts inspired me and nourished my thinking throughout this project. I would like to thank David Wills for his thought-provoking readings, for his encouragements, for his openness, for offering me the chance, before my interview, to rehearse my dissertation description over the phone, for declaring early on that “Cixous must figure in this dissertation,” and for his hospitality. Many thanks to Elissa Marder for the sharpness of her readings, for her wondrous Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which many a time has helped me go further, and for graciously and generously having accepted – following her incredible Baudelaire seminar – “to be in my life.” For her mentorship and friendship, for her trust and her encouragements, for her passion for research and for teaching, I would like to thank Julia Douthwaite, without whom I would not be here. I would like to thank all the professors and many cohorts of students in the Department of French Studies at Brown for the incredible opportunity to work and study with you. Before coming to Brown, I had the chance of working with many wonderful scholars and teachers, and I would also like to thank the professors in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame for giving me a chance to finally start studying literature. Stéphanie Ravillon, Annie Wiart, and Youenn Kervennic: mille mercis for showing me how to be a teacher and how to think about teaching, for inspiring me with your dedication, your knowledge, your open doors, and your joie de vivre. I cannot thank you enough for your support and your advice. For their stimulating and intellectually challenging seminars, I would like to thank in particular: Professors Réda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Maureen Boulton, Patricio Boyer, Matilda Bruckner, Odile Cazenave, Liliane Doukhan, Jacques Doukhan, Julia Douthwaite, Virginia Krause, Kristina Mendicino, Monique Pittman, Thangam v Ravindranathan, Lewis Seifert, Gretchen Schultz, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Alain Toumayan, and David Wills. Many thanks also go to Julia Douthwaite, Ariella Azoulay, Ourida Mostefai, Pierre Saint- Amand, and Marc Redfield for many insightful conversations and for trusting and helping me to translate into a language that is not my own; many thanks to Sarah Bernthal and Bruno Penteado for sharing this task with me. For their ever-encouraging words, I would like to thank Branka Arsić and Michelle Clayton. For the delightful conversations, many thanks go to Maan Alsahoui. Merci, Mme Beinat, who made me want to be a teacher like her, already in the CE2. Merci, Mme Wenzel, whose French class was a haven in a sea of Deutsch, for giving me an impressive reading list, and upon directing my very first research thesis in French knew that I could do more. Kathy Wiggins, Mary Oliver, and José Mendoza, thank you for working wonders behind the scenes, and for making Rochambeau brighter by your presence. Geralyn Ducady and Tony Belz at the Haffenreffer Museum, thank you for giving me a beautiful space to work in for two summers. Many thanks to the biliothécaires, who recognized early on my love for books and let me borrow more than the three allowed at one time; Later at Brown, Dominique Coulombe and Patricia Figueroa have been more than helpful in procuring books, journals and useful resources. Merci, to my sometimes confusés students, who over the years have reminded me, week in week out, why it is all worth it. I would also like to thank: Christine Lietz and Shannon Bragg, my cohort, for making the challenging first year at Brown particularly memorable; Jack Sieber, for the madeleines he brings back from France for me and everything else; Anne-Gabrielle Roussel, Justin Gibson, Benjamin Fancy, Brigitte Stepanov, and Brittany Prescott for the many impromptu conversations, for sharing lesson plans and life lessons, and for making the most of our very small on- campus group this year. Lucie Pautot for her kindness, her optimism, for giving me the hospitality of her office, for the many conversations and encouraging words, for haunting the gardens at Rochambeau, merci, merci, merci ! For dinners, drinks, conversations, (life) support, friendship, and so much more: Stefanie and Michael Sevcik (with Adalyne and Skylar), Ruffin & Jeremy Powell (with Archer), Silja Maehl and Rassin Grantab (with Johan), Natalie Lozinski-Veach and Dan Veach, Anja Jovic, Claudia Grégoire, and Andrew Naughton. vi Snežana Kordovan, sister extraordinaire, for being there through it all: whether it was studying with me in the middle of the night, keeping me fed, or listening to my incessant talking with deep interest. Yasmina Fawaz for always calling me even when I don’t call back, for always knowing exactly what to say, and for her incredible friendship. Abi Doukhan, for every conversation and every piece of advice, for encouraging me, by example, to pursue a Ph.D., for showing me that you can have it all. Christopher Hill, Vicky Hougasian, and Charlotte Barcat for Rennes and everything else. Vinciane Granmagnat for knowing me since the fateful days of collège and still being my friend. To the many friends, whose kindness and passion, in various ways, have brought me to this day: Robbie, Maria, Katie, Sara, Connie, Tim, Cédric, Markus, Alex, Sanja, Ivana, Klaus, Carsten, Sarah, Suzanne, Anita, Jovanka, and Wendy. I cannot thank enough my parents, Slavica and Dragan, for surrounding my life with books and for not despairing when I pursued yet another degree. I could not have done any of this without their unconditional support and love. To my brother David, thank you for not forgetting about me even though I always had my nose in books. To my family, my cousins, particularly Sara, Lana, Dane and Saša (and the rest of the band): I promise to now attend every possible family reunion and show up without an article, paper, or dissertation to write; thanks for sticking with me. To Stella Penteado Natividade for welcoming me into her family with an open heart. Especially to Carolina, Lobinho and Luana, but to all of the Natividades and the Moretos: for their hospitality, love, and patience with my Portuguese-learning: muito obrigada por tudo. Many thanks to Žižeka, criancinha canina, welcoming other, for her eagerness to learn and her gentle affection. Last but most of all, merci infiniment to the man who was already there when I first walked into the Naturalisme and Positivisme seminar – my very first class, on my very first day at Brown – Bruno Penteado, companion, first and last reader, who supports me (as much in its English as in its French sense) unwaveringly: sem você, nada. vii Table of Contents Acknowledgments v List of Illustrations x Introduction 1 Brief Note on Nomenclature 3 Spectral Logic 5 Timely Meditation 9 Antigone’s Ghost 13 Spectral Preoccupations and Possibilities 16 Chapter 1 – Gaspard Winckler or Georges Perec’s Creation Anxiety 19
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