And unpublished documents (such as Wittig’s lecture notes for the classes she taught at various American universities) will reveal the influence her work as a teacher and her work as a writer had on each other. Wittig’s archives, which will be featured in an exhibition at the Beinecke, will enable us to explore her relation to unfinished, encyclopedic, and collective forms of writing, as seen in her and Sande Zeig’s 1974 publication, Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes. Participants will have the opportunity to think Wittig alongside and in the archives that constitute a material trace and record of her life and thought. This conference both marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Wittig’s landmark novel, Les Guérillères, and showcases the Beinecke’s recent acquisition of the Wittig papers. Thie conference will also include an exhibition of Wittig's papers. Morgane Cadieu (Yale) and Annabel Kim (Harvard) are co-organizing an international conference at Yale University called “Drafting Monique Wittig,” For two days, diverse set of interdisciplinary scholars will reflect on the life and work of French novelist, play-writer, activist and feminist theorist Monique Wittig, author of Les Guérillères, The Straight Mind and The Lesbian Body.
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