Women's writing in contemporary France : new writers, new literatures in the 1990s

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Gill Rye and Michael Worton - Introduction......Page 12
1 - Victoria Best - Louise L. Lambrichs: trauma, dream and narrative......Page 40
2 - Aine Smith - Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie Redonnet’s fiction of the 1990s......Page 53
3 - Kathryn Robson - The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf’s melancholic autofiction......Page 64
4 - Gill Rye -Lost and found: mother–daughter relations in Paule Constant’s fiction......Page 76
5 - Elizabeth Fallaize - Puzzling out the fathers: Sibylle Lacan’s Un père: puzzle......Page 88
6 - Marie-Claire Barnet - Anatomical writing: Blasons d’un corps masculin, L’Ecrivaillon and La Ligne âpre by Régine Detambel......Page 104
7 - Sarah Alyn Stacey - ‘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......Page 117
8 - Gill Rye -Textual mirrors and uncertain re.ections: gender and narrative in L’Hiver de beauté, Les Ports du silence and La Rage au bois dormant by Christiane Baroche......Page 129
9 - Siobhán McIlvanney - The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini......Page 141
10- Shirley Jordan - Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq......Page 153
11 - Johnnie Gratton - Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle......Page 168
12 - Marion Sadoux - Christine Angot’s autofictions: literature and/or reality?......Page 182
13 - Margaret-Anne Hutton - ‘Il n’y a pas de troisième voie’ (There is no third way): Sylvie Germain and the generic problems of the Christian novel......Page 193
14 - Margaret A. Majumdar - The subversion of the gaze: Shérazade and other women in the work of Leïla Sebbar......Page 206
15 - Michael Worton - Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers? Clotilde Escalle’s tales of transgression......Page 218
Gill Rye and Michael Worton - Conclusion......Page 233
Individual author bibliography......Page 237
General bibliography......Page 261
Index......Page 269