Sofia Iaffa published in the new anthology Feminism as World Literature
Sofia Iaffa, PhD student of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, has been published with a text in the recently released anthology Feminism as World Literature (ed. Robin Truth Goodman) at Bloomsbury Academic. Her chapter goes by the title ”On Not Crossing Borders: Still-Standing Female Characters in Luisa Valenzuela’s prose” and is based on the research Iaffa carries out in her PhD project on Hispanic exile literature.
The anthology contributes with feminist perspectives and readings in the field of World Literature and seeks to reformulate, challenge, and expand on those concepts and perspectives which have become foundational for the field.
In her text, Iaffa approaches the concept of nomadism through a study of the passive female characters in Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela. With her readings, Iaffa discerns and discusses significant differences between the French thinkers Gilles Deleuze & Guattari and the feminist theorist Rosi Braidotti respective understandings and uses of the concept of the nomad. Iaffa argues that making distinctions between different approaches to nomadism can prevent the vague uses of nomadism in the field of world literature and a conflation of Deleuze and Guattari’s with Braidotti’s nomadic theories, while also enhancing the knowledge about Luisa Valenzuela’s feminist aesthetics.
Read more about the book at Bloomsbury’s webpage
About Sofia Iaffa
Sofia Iaffa is PhD student of Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.
Her research interests are Hispanic literature, exile literature, subjectivity, critical theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and intersectionality.
In her dissertation project she investigates how exile subjectivities are formed but also disrupted and erased in the three Latin American writers Luisa Valenzuela, Gloria Gervitz, and Cristina Peri Rossi.
Last updated: December 15, 2022
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics