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Informationen zum Autor Amaleena Damle is Research Fellow in French at Girton College! Cambridge. She is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century French literature and thought! with a particular focus on women's writing. Gill Rye is Professor Emerita and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies! London. She has published widely in the field of contemporary women's writing in French. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues 1. Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye 2. What 'passes'?: French women writers and translation into English Lynn Penrod 3. What women read: contemporary women's writing and the bestseller Diana Holmes PART TWO: Society! Culture! Family 4. Vichy! Jews! enfants caches: French women writers look back Lucille Cairns 5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis Susan Ireland 6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye! (negative) hallucination and 'blank' metissage Andrew Asibong 7. Rediscovering the absent father! a question of recognition: Despentes! Tardieu Lori Saint-Martin 8. Babykillers: Veronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood Natalie Edwards PART THREE: Body! Life! Text 9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amelie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim Amaleena Damle 10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi's texts: towards an ethics of hybridity? Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy 11. Embodiment! environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui's life-writing Helen Vassallo 12. Irreverent revelations: women's confessional practices of the extreme contemporary Barbara Havercroft 13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux's twenty-first-century texts Simon Kemp PART FOUR: Experiments! Interfaces! Aesthetics 14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq Helena Chadderton 15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women's writing in French Shirley Jordan 16. 'Autofiction + x = ?': Chloe Delaume's experimental self-representations Deborah B. Gaensbauer 17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong theorie)? Anne Garreta's sphinxes Owen Heathcote 18. Amelie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amelie Nothomb Anna Kemp 19. Conclusion Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye ...
