Experiment and Experience
Women's Writing in France 2000-2010
Published on 29. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-3-0343-0885-4 (ISBN)
Description
Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women's writing engages creatively with socio-political issues and real-life experiences. Authors covered include well-established names, the 'new generation' of writers who first came to the fore of the French literary scene in the 1990s and whose work has now matured into an important ouvre, as well as new emerging writers of the 2000s, whose work is already attracting scholarly and critical attention. Within the overarching theme of 'experiment and experience', the contributors explore a range of issues: identities, family relations, violence, borders and limits, and the environment. They consider fiction, autobiography, writing for the theatre, autofiction and other hybrid genres and forms. Their analyses highlight difficult issues, refreshing perspectives and exciting new themes at the start of the new millennium and moving forward into the coming decades.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0885-4 (9783034308854)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0494-7
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gill Rye is Professor Emerita and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, where she is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing and editor of the series Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing.
Amaleena Damlé is Research Fellow in French at Girton College, Cambridge. She is a specialist in modern literature and thought and has written various articles, book chapters and a forthcoming monograph in the field of contemporary women's writing.
Content
Contents: Amaleena Damle: The Mutant Metamorphic Subject: Femininity and Embodiment in Virginie Despentes's King Kong theorie - Jeri English: Writing the Self, Writing the Other: New Reflections of Beauvoir in Camille Laurens's Dans ces bras-la - Ania Wroblewski: Rewriting the Feminine: Sophie Calle and Annie Ernaux Experience and Exploit the Absolute Crime - Siobhan McIlvanney: Fighting for Independence: Leila Marouane's La Jeune Fille et la mere and Maissa Bey's Cette fille-la - Julie Rodgers: Rewriting the Mother-Daughter Plot: Fete des meres by Florence Emptaz - Jean Anderson: No Second Chances? Grandmothering and Storytelling in the Work of Dominique Mainard - Gill Rye: Marginal Identities and New Kinship Paradigms: Surrogate Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Writing in France - Alexandra Kurmann: Foreclosed Fatherhood: A Decade of Psychoanalytical Experimentation in Linda Le's Fiction - Margaret E. Gray: The Cook, Her Narrative, Its Recipes and the Textual Body in Calixthe Beyala's Comment cuisiner son mari a l'africaine - Lucile Desblache: Women and Apes in Twenty-First-Century French Writing: New Narratives of Experience - Mary Noonan: Un corps vivant de symboles: Noelle Renaude's Staging of the Writing Self - Marie-Claire Barnet: Off Limits: Trans-Border Land and Language in Marie Darrieussecq.