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The 1990s witnessed an explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writer's coming to the fore, such as Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leila Sebbar, who had begun publishing in the 1980s, claimed their mainstream status in the 1990s with new texts.
The book provides an up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the current trends and issues concerning French literary production today, whilst fifteen original essays focus on individual writers.
The volume includes specialist bibliographies on each writer, incorporating English translations, major interviews, and key critical studies. Quotations are given in both French and English throughout.
An invaluable study resource, this book is written in a clear and accessible style and will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of all levels, to teachers of a wide range of courses on French culture, and to specialist researchers of French and Francophone literature.
Contents
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Gill Rye and Michael Worton I Rewriting the past 1 Louise L. Lambrichs: trauma, dream and narrative - Victoria Best 2 Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie Redonnet's fiction of the 1990s - Aine Smith 3 The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf's melancholic Autofiction - Kathryn Robson 4 Lost and found: mother-daughter relations in Paule Constant's fiction - Gill Rye 5 Puzzling out the fathers: Sibylkle Lacan's Un Pere: puzzle - Elizabeth Fallaize II Writing the dynamics of identity 6 Anatomical writing: Blasons d'un corps masculin, L'Ecrivaillon and La Ligne apre by Regine Detambel - Marie-Claire Barnet 7 'On ne s'entendait plus et e'etait parfait ainsi' (They could no longer hear each other and it was just fine that way): misunderstandings in the novels of Agnes Desarthe - Sarah Alyn-Stacey 8 Textual mirrors and uncertain reflections: gender narrative in L'Hiver de beaute, les Ports du silence and La Rage au bois dormant by Christiane Baroche - Gill Rye 9 The articulation of 'Beur' female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Farudja Kessas and Soraya Nini - Siobhan McIlvanney 10 Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq - Shirley Jordan III Transgressions and transformation 11 Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle - Johnnie Gratton 12 Christine Angot's 'autofictions': literature and/or reality? - Marion Sadoux 13 'Il n'y a pas de troisieme voie': Sylvie Germain and the generic problems of the Christian novel - Margaret-Anne Hutton 14 The subversion of the gaze: Sherazade and other women in the work of Leila Sebbar - Margaret A. Majumdar 15 Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers? Clotile Escalle's tales of transgression - Michael Worton Conclusion - Rye and Worton Individual author bibliography
