Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990sGill Rye, Michael Worton This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s 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. |
Contents
trauma dream and narrative | 29 |
Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie | 42 |
Chantal Chawafs melancholic autofiction | 53 |
motherdaughter relations in Paule Constants | 65 |
Sibylle Lacans Un père puzzle | 77 |
Blasons dun corps masculin LEcrivaillon | 93 |
On ne sentendait plus et cétait parfait ainsi They could | 106 |
gender and narrative | 118 |
The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida | 130 |
identities in crisis in the early novels | 142 |
Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects | 157 |
literature andor reality? | 171 |
Sherazade and other women in | 195 |
Conclusion Gill Rye and Michael Worton | 222 |
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