Shifting Subjects - Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women''s Autobiography

Informationen zum Autor Natalie Edwards teaches at Wagner College, New York City. Klappentext There are many different ways to say "I." This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (H l 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 another category of identity; the women cannot write the self by using an individual "I" or by a collective "we." Instead, these texts rest uncomfortably between the pronouns "I" and "we" and thus call for different understandings of female selfhood and of collective belonging.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Edwards, Edwards Natalie
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611490305
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-030-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Francophone Literature;Literary Studies