Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France

Language: English

Published by University of Wales Press, GB, 2015

1783162066 / 9781783162062

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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.PART ONE: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues1. Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction, Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye2. What 'passes'?: French women writers and translation into English, Lynn Penrod3. What women read: contemporary women's writing and the bestseller, Diana HolmesPART TWO: Society, Culture, Family4. Vichy, Jews, enfants cachés: French women writers look back, Lucille Cairns5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis, Susan Ireland6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye, (negative) hallucination and 'blank' métissage, Andrew Asibong7. Rediscovering the absent father, a question of recognition: Despentes, Tardieu, Lori Saint-Martin8. Babykillers: Véronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood, Natalie EdwardsPART THREE: Body, Life, Text9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amélie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim, Amaleena Damlé10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi's texts: towards an ethics of hybridity?, Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy11. Embodiment, environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui's life-writing, Helen Vassallo12. Irreverent revelations: women's confessional practices of the extreme contemporary, Barbara Havercroft13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux's twenty-first-century texts, Simon KempPART FOUR: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Helena Chadderton15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women's writing in French, Shirley Jordan16. 'Autofiction + x = ?': Chloé Delaume's experimental self-representations, Deborah B. Gaensbauer17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong théorie)? Anne Garréta's sphinxes, Owen Heathcote18. Amélie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amélie Nothomb, Anna Kemp19. Conclusion, Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye.

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Title
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
Author
Gill Rye
Publisher
University of Wales Press, GB
Publication year
2015
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New
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Paperback
Language
English
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1783162066
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