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

Women's writing in contemporary France : new writers, new literatures in the 1990s / edited by Gill Rye and Michael Worton. - 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-257) and index.

Introduction Gill Rye and Michael Worton -- Rewriting the past. Louise L. Lambrichs: trauma, dream and narrative / Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie Redonnet's fiction of the 1990s / The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf 's melancholic autofiction / L ost and found: mother-daughter relations in Paule Constant's fiction / Puzzling out the fathers: Sibylle Lacan's Un père: puzzle / Writing the dynamics of identity. Anatomical writing: Blasons d'un corps masculin, L'Ecrivaillon and La Ligne âpre by Régine Detambel / '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 / 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 / The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini / Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq / Transgressions and transformation. Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle / Christine Angot's autofictions: literature and/or reality? / 'Il n'y a pas de troisième voie' (There is no third way): Sylvie Germain and the generic problems of the Christian novel / he subversion of the gaze: Shérazade and other women in the work of Leïla Sebbar / Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers? Clotilde Escalle's tales of transgression / Conclusion / Victoria Best -- Aine Smith -- Kathryn Robson -- Gill Rye -- Elizabeth Fallaize -- Marie-Claire Barnet -- Sarah Alyn Stacey -- Gill Rye -- Siobhán McIlvanney -- Shirley Jordan -- Johnnie Gratton -- Marion Sadoux -- Margaret-Anne Hutton -- Margaret A. Majumdar -- Michael Worton -- Gill Rye and Michael Worton. I II III

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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.


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French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
French literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature--History--France--20th century.
Écrits de femmes français--Histoire et critique.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--France--20e siècle.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
French literature.
French literature--Women authors.
Women and literature.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Frans.


France.

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