French fiction into the twenty-first century : the return to the story / / Simon Kemp

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820332803321
• Autore: Kemp Simon <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-299-20070-2; 0-7083-2274-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: French and Francophone Studies
• Disciplina: 843.008032441
• Soggetti: French fiction - 20th century; French fiction - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; Annie Ernaux and the Narrating of Time; Pascal Quignard and the Fringes of Narrative; Marie Darrieussecq and the Voice of the Mind; Jean Echenoz and the uses of digression; Patrick Modiano and the Problem of Endings; The Return to the Story; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines contemporary French literature in the light of a widely-held critical notion that it exists 'in the wake' of a period in which avant-garde experimental literature and postmodern writing-about-writing held sway.

Choctalking on Other Realities

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162691903321
• Autore: Howe LeAnne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: La Vergne : , : Aunt Lute Books, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-939904-07-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 195 pages : illustrations ; ; 22 cm
• Classificazione: LCO013000BIO028000SOC021000HIS028000
• Disciplina: 814/.6; B
• Soggetti: Indians of North America; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Native American; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Native Americans; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies; HISTORY / Native American
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: "My Mothers, My Uncles, Myself"-A Prologue -- The Story of America, a Tribalography -- The Chaos of Angels -- Moccasins Dont Have High Heels -- How I Lost Ten Pounds -- Choctalking on Other Realities -- Carlos Castaneda Lives in Romania -- I Fuck Up in Japan -- Yaa Jordan, Yaa Ayouni -- Embodied Tribalography.
• Sommario/riassunto: "As LeAnne Howe puts it, "The American Indian adventure stories in Choctalking on Other Realities are three parts memoir, one part tragedy, one part absurdist fiction, and one part 'marvelous realism.'" The stories in this book "form the heart of [Howe's] life's journey, so far," chronicling the contradictions, absurdities, and sometimes tragedies in a life lived crossing cultures and borders. Section one is comprised of three stories about Howe's life in the 1980s working in the bond business for a Wall Street firm. Part of an otherwise all-male group of "guerrilla warfare bond traders," Howe was the only American Indian woman, and (out) democrat, in the company. Section two is about her life in the early 1990s traveling abroad as what she calls an "International Tonto" to places like Jordan, Jerusalem, and Romania, and to Japan, where she served as an American Indian representative during ; the United Nations' "International Year For The World's Indigenous People." Section three reaches back into Howe's experiences in the 1950s as an "unruly Indian girl" as well as the later evolution of her political consciousness and her activism. The epilogue, "A Tribalography," is a literary discussion of how to read Native and indigenous stories. LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, and creative nonfiction, primarily dealing with American Indian experiences. In 2012 she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Her first novel Shell Shaker received an American Book Award. "--