Dr, Priya Wadhera/ French Program

 

 

Please let's congratulate Priya for the acceptance of her article “Manger chez Perec: Food on the Threshold between Metaphor and Matter,” for publication in an upcoming issue of the journal called Contemporary French and Francophone Studies : SITES.  This is an article that originates in her second book project, a study of food in French literature focused on how Proust's madeleine episode has been rewritten in the century since the publication of his masterwork, A la recherche du temps perdu, in 1913.  She is particularly interested in how such intertexts in the post-war period seem to deny the protagonist the same kind of sensorial pleasure and euphoric access to memory we see in Proust.  In her article, she demonstrates how Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance, published in 1975 by Perec whose mother likely died at Auschwitz, is an excellent example of this thesis.

This article is a reworking of a paper she gave at “Passages, seuils, portes / Passages, Thresholds, Gates,” the 20th- and 21st- Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, hosted by Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri this past April.

Priya once again congratulations!