Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France(English, Electronic book text, unknown)

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Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France(English, Electronic book text, unknown) is written by unknown and published by University of Wales Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0708325890 (ISBN 10) and 9780708325896 (ISBN 13).

Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.PART ONE: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues1. Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction, Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye2. What 'passes'?: French women writers and translation into English, Lynn Penrod3. What women read: contemporary women's writing and the bestseller, Diana HolmesPART TWO: Society, Culture, Family4. Vichy, Jews, enfants caches: French women writers look back, Lucille Cairns5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis, Susan Ireland6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye, (negative) hallucination and 'blank' metissage, Andrew Asibong7. Rediscovering the absent father, a question of recognition: Despentes, Tardieu, Lori Saint-Martin8. Babykillers: Veronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood, Natalie EdwardsPART THREE: Body, Life, Text9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amelie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim, Amaleena Damle10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi's texts: towards an ethics of hybridity?, Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy11. Embodiment, environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui's life-writing, Helen Vassallo12. Irreverent revelations: women's confessional practices of the extreme contemporary, Barbara Havercroft13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux's twenty-first-century texts, Simon KempPART FOUR: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Helena Chadderton15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women's writing in French, Shirley Jordan16. 'Autofiction + x = ?': Chloe Delaume's experimental self-representations, Deborah B. Gaensbauer17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong theorie)? Anne Garreta's sphinxes, Owen Heathcote18. Amelie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amelie Nothomb, Anna Kemp19. Conclusion, Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye