Marie NDiaye : blankness and recognition /
Asibong, Andrew,
Marie NDiaye : blankness and recognition / Andrew Asibong. - 1 online resource (245 pages) - Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 30 . - Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 30. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'C'est justement qu'il n'y a rien!': introducing NDiayean blankness -- Blankness/(dis)integration: the first novel cycle -- Blankness/(re)integration: the second novel cycle -- Ghouls, ghosts and bloodless abuse: NDiaye's undead theatre -- Little baby nothing: framing the invisible child -- Conclusion: a beam of intense blankness (Prière pour le bon usage de Marie NDiaye).
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye's world lurks an indefinable 'blankness' which makes it impossible for the reader to decode narrative at the level of psychology or event. Considering each of NDiaye's works (including her novels, theatre, short fiction and writing for children), Asibong assesses the aesthetic, emotional and political stakes of NDiaye's portraits of impenetrable selfhood. His book provides an original and provocative framework within which to read NDiaye as a simultaneously hybrid and hyper-French cultural figure, fascinating and fantastical practitioner of the postmodern - and reluctantly postcolonial - 'blank arts'.
In English.
9781781380994 1781380996 9781781385678 178138567X
22573/ctt5p687p JSTOR 100311 Knowledge Unlatched
016478778 Uk
NDiaye, Marie--Criticism and interpretation
NDiaye, Marie.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
French Literature
Languages & Literatures
Romance Literatures
French Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Romance Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books
PQ2674.D53 / Z75 2013eb
843.914
Marie NDiaye : blankness and recognition / Andrew Asibong. - 1 online resource (245 pages) - Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 30 . - Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 30. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'C'est justement qu'il n'y a rien!': introducing NDiayean blankness -- Blankness/(dis)integration: the first novel cycle -- Blankness/(re)integration: the second novel cycle -- Ghouls, ghosts and bloodless abuse: NDiaye's undead theatre -- Little baby nothing: framing the invisible child -- Conclusion: a beam of intense blankness (Prière pour le bon usage de Marie NDiaye).
This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye's world lurks an indefinable 'blankness' which makes it impossible for the reader to decode narrative at the level of psychology or event. Considering each of NDiaye's works (including her novels, theatre, short fiction and writing for children), Asibong assesses the aesthetic, emotional and political stakes of NDiaye's portraits of impenetrable selfhood. His book provides an original and provocative framework within which to read NDiaye as a simultaneously hybrid and hyper-French cultural figure, fascinating and fantastical practitioner of the postmodern - and reluctantly postcolonial - 'blank arts'.
In English.
9781781380994 1781380996 9781781385678 178138567X
22573/ctt5p687p JSTOR 100311 Knowledge Unlatched
016478778 Uk
NDiaye, Marie--Criticism and interpretation
NDiaye, Marie.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
French Literature
Languages & Literatures
Romance Literatures
French Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Romance Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books
PQ2674.D53 / Z75 2013eb
843.914