{"id":40802274871,"date":"2023-07-06T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802274871"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:48:45","slug":"prof-gac-artigas-delivers-paper-at-paris-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-gac-artigas-delivers-paper-at-paris-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Gac-Artigas Delivers Paper at Paris Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Ph.D., professor in the department of World Languages and Cultures, delivered her paper, \u201cCollectfiction and Poetry,\u201d at the 21st<\/sup> Conference on New Directions in the Humanities <\/a>that took place at the Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 in Paris, France, on June 29. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her paper was part of the panel, \u201cCollectfiction: Transcending the Borders of the \u2018Self\u2019 in Creation: Collective Artivism as a Transgressive Approach to Literary Creation.\u201d The panel also featured professors and researchers from different countries, including D\u00f3ra Faix, from the Spanish Department of the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd (ELTE) University, Budapest; Julia \u00c9rika Negrete-Sandoval, editorial assistant, HarperCollins, New York; Valent\u00edn Finol A\u00f1ez, Universit\u00e9 de Bretagne Occidentale, France; and Chilean poet Gustavo Gac-Artigas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her paper, she applied the theory of collectfiction, a concept that she developed, to contemporary poetry using examples of a varied geographical pool of poets such as Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Mart\u00edn Espada (U.S., Puerto Rican origin), Gustavo Gac-Artigas (Chile), Amanda Gorman (U.S.), and Mar\u00eda \u00c1ngeles P\u00e9rez L\u00f3pez (Spain).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collectfiction refers to a term Gac-Artigas coined in 2017 to describe literary texts in which the authors propose to the readers a work of fiction that unfolds recognizable (auto)biographical, cultural, historical, and socio-political references either within the text and\/or the paratexts, and, through experimentation with specific narrative, dialogic, or structural resources, they invite them to engage in a proactive reading and participate creatively in the reconfiguration of the story proposed. It posits a form of collective artivism that develops from the urgent, conscious, or unconscious desire of authors and artists to respond to social crises through art. Through a reading pact that encourages to engage in the game of creativity and be part and participant in the reconfiguration of a story and through the transgression of the boundaries of literary genres and traditional narrative resources, a synthesizing collectfiction that surpasses the restrictive limits of \u201cmy\u201d story to become an encompassing and political \u201cour\u201d story, is fostered. This reconfiguration of the story in turn fosters the collectfiction of a historic period or collectivity in its temporal-spatial dimension. See: “Colectficci\u00f3n: sobrepasando los l\u00edmites de la autoficci\u00f3n.<\/a>” Iberoamericana Vervuert, Madrid 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Gac-Artigas\u2019 article,\u00a0\u201cVivir para contarla: de la autoficci\u00f3n a la colectficci\u00f3n en la literatura y las artes\u201d\/\u00b4Living to Tell the Tale\u00b4: From Autofiction to Collectfiction in Literature and the Arts, where she explains what collectfiction is and how she got to develop the concept and coin the word, appeared in the volume of essays:\u00a0“Instabilit\u00e9s et Mutations: les jeux du \u201cje\u201ddans la literature latinoam\u00e9ricaine<\/a>.”\u200e Shaker; 1st edition (28 April 2023: 135-164)\u00a0<\/em>edited by Lise Demeyer, Romain Magras, Isabelle Pouzet Michel et Beno\u00eet Santini of the Universit\u00e9 Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d\u2019Opale, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gac-Artigas is a Fulbright Scholar, a full member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and correspondent member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Ph.D., professor in the department of World Languages and Cultures, delivered her paper, \u201cCollectfiction and Poetry,\u201d at the 21st Conference on New Directions in the Humanities that took place at the Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 in Paris, France, on June 29. Her paper was part of the panel, \u201cCollectfiction: Transcending the Borders of the \u2018Self\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":633,"featured_media":40802266289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423],"tags":[1447],"person":[632],"audience":[],"school":[239],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802274871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-spanish","person-pgacarti","school-foreign-language-studies"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802274871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802274871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802274871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802274964,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802274871\/revisions\/40802274964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802266289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802274871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802274871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802274871"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802274871"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802274871"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802274871"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802274871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}