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Women's writing in contemporary France : new writers, new literatures in the 1990s /

This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary production.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rye, Gill, 1948-, Worton, Michael, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Gill Rye and Michael Worton
  • I Rewriting the past. Louise L. Lambrichs: trauma, dream and narrative / Victoria Best
  • Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie Redonnet's fiction of the 1990s / Aine Smith
  • The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf 's melancholic autofiction / Kathryn Robson
  • L ost and found: mother-daughter relations in Paule Constant's fiction / Gill Rye
  • Puzzling out the fathers: Sibylle Lacan's Un père: puzzle / Elizabeth Fallaize
  • II Writing the dynamics of identity. Anatomical writing: Blasons d'un corps masculin, L'Ecrivaillon and La Ligne âpre by Régine Detambel / Marie-Claire Barnet
  • 'On ne s'entendait plus et c'était parfait ainsi' (They could no longer hear each other and it was just fine that way): misunderstandings in the novels of Agnès Desarthe / Sarah Alyn Stacey
  • extual mirrors and uncertain reflections: gender and narrative in L'Hiver de beauté, Les Ports du silence and La Rage au bois dormant by Christiane Baroche / Gill Rye
  • The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini / Siobhán McIlvanney
  • Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq / Shirley Jordan
  • III Transgressions and transformation. Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle / Johnnie Gratton
  • Christine Angot's autofictions: literature and/or reality? / Marion Sadoux
  • 'Il n'y a pas de troisième voie' (There is no third way): Sylvie Germain and the generic problems of the Christian novel / Margaret-Anne Hutton
  • he subversion of the gaze: Shérazade and other women in the work of Leïla Sebbar / Margaret A. Majumdar
  • Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers? Clotilde Escalle's tales of transgression / Michael Worton
  • Conclusion / Gill Rye and Michael Worton.