Female Abjection in the Writings of the 'Paris Note'

• In Event: Displaced Desires: Writing Sex, Self, and Relation in Exile

Abstract

Among the Paris Note writers, women produced poetry and prose that were regarded as exemplary for the movement, whose signature mode was emigre abjection. Ekaterina Bakunina drew particular attention for her novels Telo and Liubov' k shesterym, in which she renders the "human document" of women's sexual and maternal experience. This paper explores the literary and conceptual discourses that underlie her linking of emigre and female abjection, and considers Bakunina's contribution to the development of Russian feminism.

Author

• Catherine Ann Ciepiela, Amherst College