What's France got to do with it? : contemporary memoirs of Australians in France / Juliana de Nooy.

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De Nooy, Juliana [author.]

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Australian National University Press

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781760463649
1760463647

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: What's France got to do with it? : contemporary memoirs of Australians in France.DDC classification:

820.9994 23

LOC classification:

PR9609.6 .D46 2020eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

1. Introduction: What's it got to do with us? -- 2. What's travel got to do with it? Exploring a contemporary publishing phenomenon -- 3. What's being there got to do with it? Distance, presence and belonging -- 4. What's love got to do with it? -- 5. What's France got to do with it? -- 6. What's class got to do with it (and demographics more generally)? -- 7. What's culture got to do with it? -- 8. What's language got to do with it? -- 9. What's wine got to do with it? -- 10. What's gender got to do with it? -- 11. Conclusion: What's Australia got to do with it?

Review: While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a project of self-renovation in which transplantation to another country is incidental, hence the question 'What's France got to do with it?' The book delves into what France represents in the various narratives, its role in the self-transformation, and the reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand among readers and publishers for these stories. It asks why these memoirs have gained such traction among Australian women at the dawn of the twenty-first century and what is at stake in the fascination with France.

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While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a project of self-renovation in which transplantation to another country is incidental, hence the question 'What's France got to do with it?' The book delves into what France represents in the various narratives, its role in the self-transformation, and the reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand among readers and publishers for these stories. It asks why these memoirs have gained such traction among Australian women at the dawn of the twenty-first century and what is at stake in the fascination with France.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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