02364nam 2200445 450 991081363660332120230627112937.09781786838629(electronic bk.)(MiAaPQ)EBC6997055(Au-PeEL)EBL6997055(CKB)22784654600041(EXLCZ)992278465460004120230627d2022 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierStolen limelight gender, display and displacement in modern fiction in French /Margaret E. Gray1st ed.Cardiff, England :The University of Wales Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (179 pages)French and francophone studiesPrint version: Gray, Margaret E. Stolen Limelight Cardiff : University of Wales Press,c2022 Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Embodied Display and Effects of Displacement -- Chapter 1 Staging the Hyperfeminine: Colette -- Chapter 2 'Stripped Naked': Dismantling Gender in Oyono's Une vie de boy -- Chapter 3 Disappearance as Display: Beyond the Strait Gate in Gide -- Part II: Narrating Display, Narrating Displacement -- Chapter 4 Framing Monstrosity in Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux: 'Buried Hearts' and 'Filthy Bodies' -- Chapter 5 'Girl Stuff': Genre, Masquerade and Displacement in Japrisot's Piège Pour Cendrillon -- Chapter 6 Spectacular Scripts: Transgendering the Mad Mother in Duras's Different Lover(s) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.Dynamics of display in gendered contexts put toward purposes of resistance are explored across six modern canonical and popular novels in French - including an African Francophone fiction and a murder mystery - as well as their selected film adaptations.French and francophone studies.Sex in literatureSex role in literatureSex in literature.Sex role in literature.636.005Gray Margaret E.132896MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910813636603321Stolen limelight3996350UNINA