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Autore: | Edwards Natalie |
Titolo: | Shifting subjects [[electronic resource]] : plural subjectivity in contemporary francophone women's autobiography / / Natalie Edwards |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : University of Delaware Press |
Plymouth, England, : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (173 p.) |
Disciplina: | 840.9/3522 |
Soggetto topico: | French literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Autobiography - Women authors - History and criticism | |
French literature - Women authors - History and criticism | |
Autobiography - Authorship | |
Self in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | There 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Shifting subjects |
ISBN: | 1-61149-031-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790409403321 |
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