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Bridging the Imaginary Gap between Distant Cartographies

After Clarice

Bridging the Imaginary Gap Between Distant Cartographies- The visit that never was

After Clarice- Lispector’s Legacy, Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2022

Bridging the Imaginary Gap between Distant Cartographies-the Visit that Never Was by Dafna Hornik... more Bridging the Imaginary Gap between Distant Cartographies-the Visit that Never Was by Dafna Hornike In March 1947 the young and already published Jewish Brazilian author Clarice Lispector was planning her upcoming international travels as a diplomat's wife. Her journeys would take her to Libya, Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, United States, and beyond, travelling by train, airplane, and even camel. Not surprisingly, Lispector has often been associated with nomadic readings, mainly focusing on the impact of her personal life on her writing. Her diplomatic passport frequently appears in biographies, so as to prove she was well traveled and informed about other cultures. Benjamin Moser's biography even goes so far as to depict her international origins in a map using a Tolkein-like font, evoking Lord of the Rings mythology as part of reconstructing Lispector's own movements through space. 1 Nevertheless, what interests me in my research is triggered by the commonly overlooked Palestinian visa Lispector was issued in 1946 (which can be seen in the Casa Rui Barbosa archive), as well as by numerous references to the Middle East in her texts: the Galilee, Constantinople, and Damascus to name just a few. As a writer dedicated to the depiction of the subjective experience of the multiple connections between subject and space, Lispector's usage of spatial allusions is not to be taken lightly. Indeed, her texts are haunted by Middle Eastern imagery, calling for a closer look at these meaningful spaces and their function for the reader. An avid reader of her works can trace an insistence on these spaces, a continuous usage of what I call Holy Land Imagery: spatial tropes of a land Lispector never even visited. The author maintained a conflicted relationship with this imaginary cartography that influenced her writing, a land she only knew from other accounts. What follows, therefore, is an examination of the points of departure Lispector imagined when writing. In other words,

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Orienting Towards Home, Or The Boundaries Of The Nomad

What are the ways in which the subject is influenced by its location? How is subjectivity formed ... more What are the ways in which the subject is influenced by its location? How is subjectivity formed in relation to space and what are the different implications of changing that space? To answer these questions I analyze concepts of subjectivity and gender and their intersections with notions of space such as belonging, transgressing boundaries, and orientation. I explore this theoretical path through a comparative study of the transgressive writing of four salient authors from across Latin America: Clarice Lispector, Diamela Eltit, Carmen Boullosa and Ana Clavel. My dissertation is therefore an analysis of the multiple connections between subjectivity and space, especially focused on gendered and corporal aspects as they manifest in contemporary Latin American literature. Feminist and queer theorists such as Judith Butler, Sarah Ahmed, Kathryn Bon-Stockton, Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz, support my analysis in achieving new understandings of the intersections of the three vectors that guide me-space, subjectivity and gender. Throughout my four chapters I analyze the relations between subject and the space that surrounds it, while coining a new term--subjective space. "Subjective space" is a hybrid term that allows me to look both at the way the subject is influenced by its location, and how, in turn, it is spatially constructed. Can there be a common thread to the way these theories and literary texts explore the formation of the subject and its constitution in space? What can be gained by thinking of this constitution in spatial terms? Following this path of analysis will lead me to a new theoretical location, where I hope to gain insight into the centrality of space to the subject and the subject's impacts on space. iii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Born in a small town in the Negev desert in Israel, Dafna was a voracious reader, going through all the books she could find at the local public libraries. Her appetite for stories was nourished by her grandmother's tales of a childhood in faraway Iraq. After a seven month journey in Latin America, Dafna went on to complete a major in Romance Studies and Gender Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, from where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2005. She pursued her graduate studies at the University Of Calgary, Canada at the department of French, Italian, and Spanish, from where she graduated at 2007. After moving to Ithaca, New York she studied at Cornell University at the department of Romance Studies, with a minor in Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She received her second MA from Cornell University at 2010, and her PhD in 2013. iv For my best travelling companion, from now on we are no longer alone Why is positionality so crucial to one's feeling of security, or lack of it, and how is it that the places in our itinerary have such an effect on us? What is it that makes space such a primordial part of the way we understand ourselves? What are the numerous, sometimes contradictory ways in which space informs our very being, and how can we conceptualize the relationship between subject and space? My work is a constant effort to decipher these enigmas, a journey that is itself the goal. I follow a path on which texts are sometimes clues, and other times doors that open into other texts. Clarice Lispector's G.H. leads me to Ana Clavel's Antonia; Rossi Braidotti's notion of "the Nomadic Subject" is complemented by Sara Ahmed's theoretical approach to the Other; Kathryn Bond-Stockton's idea of the Queer Child points back to Carmen Boullosa's tormented child. Throughout this dissertation I introduce texts to each other in order to create a dialogue between theories, as well as to think theoretically with texts that are usually read as literary productions. In my writing I see questions as open roads: sometimes they lead me in the right direction, sometimes they are the cause of productive disorientation. I will now spread the map of the pages to follow, unfold its creases, and draft the road that will lead in other directions to other roads. This journey starts with the theoretical term "Nomadic Subjects," which was for me the first to capture the uniqueness of the intricate relationship between subject and space. Rossi Braidotti's Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory aims at destabilizing monolithic ways of understanding the subject through a nomadic analysis. For Braidotti the nomadic subject is political fiction, a way of rethinking the origins of the subject while blurring the boundaries that prevent us from crossing usually divided established categories (4-5). Nomadic consciousness is the ability to have multiple belongings and transgress 4

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Bridging the Imaginary Gap between Distant Cartographies

After Clarice

Bridging the Imaginary Gap Between Distant Cartographies- The visit that never was

After Clarice- Lispector’s Legacy, Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2022

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Orienting Towards Home, Or The Boundaries Of The Nomad

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