03174nam 2200637 a 450 991081054230332120240401163436.01-61149-031-6(CKB)2550000001113605(EBL)1365261(OCoLC)857365399(SSID)ssj0000983662(PQKBManifestationID)12407181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983662(PQKBWorkID)11011124(PQKB)10905898(MiAaPQ)EBC1365261(Au-PeEL)EBL1365261(CaPaEBR)ebr10753520(CaONFJC)MIL513461(EXLCZ)99255000000111360520130912d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShifting subjects plural subjectivity in contemporary francophone women's autobiography /Natalie Edwards1st ed.Lanham, Md. University of Delaware Press ;Plymouth, England Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Groupc20111 online resource (173 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-030-8 1-299-82210-X Includes bibliographical references and index.SHIFTING SUBJECTS; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From the Individual ""I"" to the Non-Unitary Self; 1. Gisèle Halimi's Self-(Re)Writing Project; 2. Fictional Doubles in Julia Kristeva's Les samouraïs; 3. Archive and Autobiography in Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison; 4. The Displaced Autobiographical Subject in Hélène Cixous's Les reveries de la femme sauvage; 5. Conclusion: New Textual Identities; Notes; Works Cited; IndexThere are many different ways to say 'I.' This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (HZl_ne Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gis_le Halimi and Julia Kristeva) have written their autobiographical 'I' as a plural concept. These women refuse the individual 'I' of traditional autobiography by developing narrative strategies that multiply the voices in their texts. Each chapter examines a text, or a series of texts, that offers a different approach to writing a plural 'I.' Taken together, the texts depart from current theorizations of the female autobiographical 'I,' by calling for French literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAutobiographyWomen authorsHistory and criticismFrench literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAutobiographyAuthorshipSelf in literatureFrench literatureHistory and criticism.AutobiographyWomen authorsHistory and criticism.French literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.AutobiographyAuthorship.Self in literature.840.9/3522Edwards Natalie1093091MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810542303321Shifting subjects4100088UNINA