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“The Ecstasy of the Between-Us”: Sharing the World in Michèle Roberts’s Relational Poetics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)
In Through Vegetal Being, Luce Irigaray writes about the importance of “cultivating and sharing life between all” as it will result in “the blossoming of all beings.” This perspective seems to reside at the centre of Michèle ...
Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Ignorance"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)
One of the most grisly European fairy tales, “Bluebeard” is also a story that has proved immensely productive, spawning numerous variants, adaptations and rewritings. This essay offers a reading of Michèle Roberts’s Ignorance ...
“It’s a Pagan Communion, and We Are the Priests”: Plenitude in Michèle Roberts’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)
Roberts’s short stories have not received extensive scholarly attention, yet they make up a substantial part of her oeuvre. Her output of short stories is configured in a particular and coherent way, one that overlaps with ...
Michèle Roberts’s "Flesh and Blood" as an Example of "Écriture Feminine"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)
The essay offers an analysis of Flesh and Blood, a novel by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1994. It discusses the book from the vantage point of French feminist criticism, especially écriture feminine, as well as ...
Resisting the Oppressive Paternal Metaphor of God in Michèle Roberts’s "Impossible Saints"
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz 
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)
The protagonist of Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints, Josephine, establishes a nonconformist convent for women who seek communion with God by following an unorthodox path of sensual spirituality. Impossible Saints ...