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Record Nr.

UNINA9910634077903321

Autore

Edwards Natalie

Titolo

Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women : translingual selves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

NEW YORK, : ROUTLEDGE, 2019

ISBN

0-429-61989-8

0-429-05487-4

0-429-62204-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Collana

Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Classificazione

BIO007000LIT000000LIT004150

Disciplina

306.446

Soggetti

Bilingualism and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Lydie Salvayre: translanguaging, testimony and history -- French-Vietnamese translanguaging in the work of Kim Thúy -- En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire: Catherine Rey's Franco-Australian life-writing -- Gisèle Pineau's evolving translanguaging: from Un Papillon dans la cité to L'Exil selon Julia to Mes quatres femmes -- Staging resistance to the language of the colonizer: Chantal Spitz's translanguaging -- Hélène Cixous's Franco-German translanguaging in Une Autobiographie allemande -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual



authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature."