Jacqueline Leiner

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Jacqueline Leiner (* 1921 in Caen ; † April 5, 2008 ) was a French romance scholar , literary scholar and writer .

life and work

Jacqueline Leiner studied in Paris and was a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale from 1946 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1959 she was an assistant at the University of Saarbrücken , then a high school teacher. She completed her habilitation in 1969 in Strasbourg with Jean Gaulmier on Le destin littéraire de Paul Nizan et ses étapes successives. Contribution à l'étude du mouvement littéraire en France de 1920 à 1940 (Paris 1970). She taught at the University of Washington in Seattle (1963 to 1975, 1985–1989), at the Sorbonne (1977/78) and at the Université de Provence in Aix en Provence (1981–1985). She published the novel Le pied de lit (Paris 1962) under the pseudonym Catherine Sarlat . Jacqueline Leiner was friends with Simone de Beauvoir , Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Césaire . She was married to the Romanist Wolfgang Leiner .

Other works

  • Imaginaire, langage, identité culturelle, négritude. Afrique. France. Guyana. Haiti. Maghreb. Martinique , Tübingen / Paris 1980
  • (Ed.) Soleil éclaté. Mélanges offerts à Aimé Césaire à l'occasion de son 70e anniversaire par une équipe internationale d'artistes et de chercheurs , Tübingen 1984
  • Aimé Césaire, le terreau primordial , 2 vol., Tübingen 1993, 2003

literature

  • Carrefour de cultures. Mélanges offerts à Jacqueline Leiner , études réunies par Régis Antoine, Tübingen 1993
personal data
SURNAME Leiner, Jacqueline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarlat, Catherine (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French romance studies and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2008