Shifting subjects [[electronic resource]] : plural subjectivity in contemporary francophone women's autobiography / / Natalie Edwards
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Edwards Natalie
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| Titolo: |
Shifting subjects [[electronic resource]] : plural subjectivity in contemporary francophone women's autobiography / / Natalie Edwards
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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