CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Sükösd, Melinda |
|---|---|
| Title | SURROGATE NATURE AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN IDENTITY POLITICS: A POSTCOLONIAL READING OF SZABOLCS HAJDU'S BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL (2010) |
| Summary | In this thesis, I use a specific postcolonial framework to analyze the film Bibliotheque Pascal (2010) and then link my analysis to a larger political issue of identity politics and terms of citizenship taking place in contemporary Europe. I take a case study that examines the representation of the Transylvanian landscape and its women in a group of Hungarian films set in the region, as the grounds for my own close reading of the surrogate figure of Bibliotheque Pascal’s main protagonist, Mona. I use Jacques Derrida’s surrogate term to work through a discussion on native belonging and foreign otherness in the symbolic register of the film, which I argue speaks to larger sociopolitical debates on European ideals of belonging. I demonstrate how the figure of ‘the immigrant woman’ is central to the hegemonic social imaginary of Europe and the European. |
| Supervisor | Loutfi, Anna |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/sukosd_melinda.pdf |
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