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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460354503321

Titolo

Protean selves : first-person voices in twenty-first-century french and francophone / / edited by Adrienne Angelo and Erika Fülöp ; contributors, Jean Anderson [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6611-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

809.3923

Soggetti

First person narrative

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; SECTION II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; SECTION III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; SECTION IV; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to write ""I"" in postmodern society, in a world in which technological advances and increased globalization have complicated notions of authenticity, origins, and selfhood? Under what circumstances and to what extent do authors lend their scriptural authority to fictional counterparts? What role does naming, or, conversely, anonymity play vis-à-vis the writing and written ""I""? What aspects of identity are subject to (auto)fictional manipulations? And how do these complicated ...