Remnants of Refusal

Analyzes how French and Chinese literary and filmic texts enact a series of feminist affective responses to the erasure of historical trauma. Remnants of Refusal traces an affective discourse of feminist refusal across a series of French and Chinese works of film and literature. Developing an inventive comparative approach, Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf argues that this discourse takes shape in response to two national traumas and their aftermath: the German Occupation and the Tiananmen Square Massacre