| Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature Contributor(s): Damlé, Amaleena (Editor), Rye, Gill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1783162066 ISBN-13: 9781783162062 Publisher: University of Wales Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 840.992 |
| Series: French and Francophone Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France is a collection of critical essays on recent literature written by women in France. It takes stock of the themes, issues, and trends in women's writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century and engages critically with the work of individual authors through close readings. Authors covered include major prizewinners, best-selling authors, and established and new writers whose work has attracted scholarly attention. Topics covered in the essays include translation, popular fiction, society, history, war, family relations, violence, trauma, the body, racial identity, sexual identity, feminism, life-writing, and textual/aesthetic experiments. |
Contributor Bio(s): Damle, Amaleena: - Amaleena Damlé is a research fellow in French at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Rye, Gill: - Gill Rye is professor emerita and associate fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London. |