Format:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
ISBN:
9781526137999
Content:
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The 1990s witnessed an explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writer's coming to the fore, such as Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leila Sebbar, who had begun publishing in the 1980s, claimed their mainstream status in the 1990s with new texts.The book provides an up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the current trends and issues concerning French literary production today, whilst fifteen original essays focus on individual writers. The volume includes specialist bibliographies on each writer, incorporating English translations, major interviews, and key critical studies. Quotations are given in both French and English throughout.An invaluable study resource, this book is written in a clear and accessible style and will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of all levels, to teachers of a wide range of courses on French culture, and to specialist researchers of French and Francophone literature
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Front matter
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Contents
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part I Rewriting the past
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1 Louise L. Lambrichs
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2 Evermore or nevermore?
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3 The female vampire
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4 Lost and found
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5 Puzzling out the fathers
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Part II Writing the dynamics of identity
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6 Anatomical writing
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7 'On ne s'entendait plus et c'était parfait ainsi' (They could no longer hear each other and it was just fine that way)
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8 Textual mirrors and uncertain reflections
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9 The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini
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10 Saying the unsayable
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Part III Transgressions and transformation
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11 Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle
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12 Christine Angot's autofictions
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13 'Il n'y a pas de troisième voie' (There is no third way)
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14 The subversion of the gaze
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15 Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers?
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Conclusion
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Individual author bibliography
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General bibliography
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Index
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In English
Language:
English
