Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s

Table of contents

• Women's Writing in Contemporary France *
• Women's Writing in Contemporary France - New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s *
• Contents *
• Contributors *
• Acknowledgements *
• Introduction *
• I - Rewriting the Past *
• 1 - Louise L. Lambrichs: Trauma, Dream and Narrative *
• 2 - Evermore or Nevermore? Memory and Identity in Marie Redonnet's Fiction of the 1990s *
• 3 - The Female Vampire: Chantal Chawaf's Melancholic Autofiction *
• 4 - Lost and Found: Mother—daughter Relations in Paule Constant's Fiction *
• 5 - Puzzling Out the Fathers: Sibylle Lacan's UN Père: Puzzle *
• II - Writing the Dynamics of Identity *
• 6 - Anatomical Writing: Blasons D'Un Corps Masculin, L'Ecrivaillon and La Ligne âpre by Régine Detambel *
• 7 - `On Ne S'Entendait Plus Et C'était Parfait Ainsi' (They Could No Longer Hear Each Other and It Was Just Fine That Way): Misunderstandings in the Novels of Agnès Desarthe *
• 8 - Textual Mirrors and Uncertain Reflections: Gender and Narrative in L'Hiver De Beauté, Les Ports Du Silence and La Rage Au Bois Dormant by Christiane Baroche *
• 9 - The Articulation of Beur Female Identity in the Works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini *
• 10 - Saying the Unsayable: Identities in Crisis in the Early Novels of Marie Darrieussecq *
• III - Transgressions and Transformation *
• 11 - Experiment and Experience in the Phototextual Projects of Sophie Calle *
• 12 - Christine Angot's Autofictions: Literature And/Or Reality? *
• 13 - `Il N'Y a Pas De Troisième Voie' (There is No Third Way): Sylvie Germain and the Generic Problems of the Christian Novel *
• 14 - The Subversion of the Gaze: Shérazade and Other Women in the Work of Leïla Sebbar *
• 15 - Unnatural Women and Uncomfortable Readers? Clotilde Escalle's Tales of Transgression *
• Conclusion *
• Individual Author Bibliography *
• Index *

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