Genre, savoir, pouvoir. Repenser l’historiographie littéraire néo-hellénique

Abstract

Until recently, histories of Modern Greek literature reserved only a minor place, if any, for discussions of women's literary production. This fact is not a consequence of the historical absence of women in the field of letters, but rather reflects the result of a dominant masculinist epistemology. The history of Modern Greek literature has in fact been based on founding discourses that exclude women’s writing because they obeyed what Françoise Collin calls the "sexuation of knowledge". By examining the foundation and development of Modern Greek literary history through a gender lens, this article presents a historiographical approach coupled with an epistemological reflection around the theoretical and practical stakes raised by this issue

Keywords

• gender
• power
• knowledge
• historiography
• Modern Greece
• literary history