Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature
Sous la direction de Amaleena DAMLÉ & Gill RYE
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013
EAN 9780708325889
290 p.
Prix : £80
Présentation :
This book is a collection of critical essays on recent women-authored literature in France. It takes stock of the themes, issues and trends in women’s writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and engages critically with the work of individual authors through close textual readings.
Contents:
Part One: Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues
Chapter 1: Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Introduction, by Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye
Chapter 2: What ‘Passes’?: French Women Writers and Translation into English, by Lynn Penrod
Chapter 3: What Women Read: Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Best-seller, by Diana Holmes
Part Two: Society, Culture, Family
Chapter 4: Vichy, Jews, Enfants Cachés: French Women Writers Look Back, by Lucille Cairns
Chapter 5: Wives and Daughters in Literary Works Representing the Harkis, by Susan Ireland
Chapter 6: (Not) Seeing Things: Marie NDiaye, (Negative) Hallucination and ‘Blank’ Métissage, by Andrew Asibong
Chapter 7: Rediscovering the Absent Father, a Question of Recognition: Despentes, Tardieu, by Lori Saint-Martin
Chapter 8: Babykillers: Véronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on Motherhood, by Natalie Edwards
Part Three: Body, Life, Text
Chapter 9: The Becoming of Anorexia and Text in Amélie Nothomb’s Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan’s Jours sans faim, by Amaleena Damlé
Chapter 10: The Human-Animal in Ananda Devi’s Texts: Towards an Ethics of Hybridity?, by Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Chapter 11: Embodiment, Environment and the Reinvention of Self in Nina Bouraoui’s Life-Writing, by Helen Vassallo
Chapter 12: Irreverent Revelations: Women’s Confessional Practices of the Extreme Contemporary, by Barbara Havercroft
Chapter 13: Contamination Anxiety in Annie Ernaux’s Twenty-First-Century Texts, by Simon Kemp
Part Four: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics
Chapter 14: Experience and Experiment in the Work of Marie Darrieussecq, by Helena Chadderton
Chapter 15: I nterfaces: Verbal/Visual Experiment in New Women’s Writing in French, Shirley Jordan
Chapter 16: ‘Autofiction + x = ?’: Chloé Delaume’s Experimental Self-Representations, by Deborah B. Gaensbauer
Chapter 17: Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and Beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong théorie)? Anne Garréta’s Sphinxes, by Owen Heathcote
Chapter 18: Amélie the Aesthete: Art and Politics in the World of Amélie Nothomb, by Anna Kemp
Conclusion, by Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye
Bibliography
Index