Women's writing in contemporary France : new writers, new literature in the 1990s / / edited by Gill Rye and Michael Worton

• Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 840.99287
• Soggetto topico: French literature - Women authors - History and criticism; French literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Women and literature - France - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: RyeGill <1948-> WortonMichael <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Gill Rye and Michael Worton - Introduction; 1 - Victoria Best - Louise L. Lambrichs: trauma, dream and narrative; 2 - Aine Smith - Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie Redonnet's fiction of the 1990's; 3 - Kathryn Robson - The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf's melancholic autofiction; 4 - Gill Rye -Lost and found: mother-daughter relations in Paule Constant's fiction; 5 - Elizabeth Fallaize - Puzzling out the fathers: Sibylle Lacan's Un père: puzzle ; 6 - Marie-Claire Barnet - Anatomical writing: Blasons d'un corps masculin, L'Ecrivaillon and La Ligne âpre by Régine Detambel7 - Sarah Alyn Stacey - 'On ne s'entendait plus et c'était parfait ainsi' (They could no longer hear each other and it was just fine that way): misunderstandings in the novels of Agnès Desarthe; 8 - Gill Rye -Textual mirrors and uncertain re.ections: gender and narrative in L'Hiver de beauté, Les Ports du silence and La Rage au bois dormant by Christiane Baroche ; 9 - Siobhán McIlvanney - The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini10- Shirley Jordan - Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq; 11 - Johnnie Gratton - Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle; 12 - Marion Sadoux - Christine Angot's autofictions: literature and/or reality?; 13 - Margaret-Anne Hutton - 'Il n'y a pas de troisième voie' (There is no third way): Sylvie Germain and the generic problems of the Christian novel ; 14 - Margaret A. Majumdar - The subversion of the gaze: Shérazade and other women in the work of Leïla Sebbar 15 - Michael Worton - Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers? Clotilde Escalle's tales of transgression; Gill Rye and Michael Worton - Conclusion; Individual author bibliography; General bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990's and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary production.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women's writing in contemporary France
• ISBN: 1-280-73415-9; 9786610734153; 1-84779-026-7; 1-4175-7639-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910865499103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II