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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

PART ONE: Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues
1. Women’s writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction, Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye
2. What ‘passes’?: French women writers and translation into English, Lynn Penrod
3. What women read: contemporary women’s writing and the bestseller, Diana Holmes
PART TWO: Society, Culture, Family
4. Vichy, Jews, enfants cachés: French women writers look back, Lucille Cairns
5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis, Susan Ireland
6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye, (negative) hallucination and ‘blank’ métissage, Andrew Asibong
7. Rediscovering the absent father, a question of recognition: Despentes, Tardieu, Lori Saint-Martin
8. Babykillers: Véronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood, Natalie Edwards
PART THREE: Body, Life, Text
9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amélie Nothomb’s Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan’s Jours sans faim, Amaleena Damlé
10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi’s texts: towards an ethics of hybridity?, Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
11. Embodiment, environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui’s life-writing, Helen Vassallo
12. Irreverent revelations: women’s confessional practices of the extreme contemporary, Barbara Havercroft
13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux’s twenty-first-century texts, Simon Kemp
PART FOUR: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics
14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq, Helena Chadderton
15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women’s writing in French, Shirley Jordan
16. ‘Autofiction + x = ?’: Chloé Delaume’s experimental self-representations, Deborah B. Gaensbauer
17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong théorie)? Anne Garréta’s sphinxes, Owen Heathcote
18. Amélie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amélie Nothomb, Anna Kemp
19. Conclusion, Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye
PART ONE: Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues 1. Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: introduction Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye 2. What 'passes'?: French women writers and translation into English Lynn Penrod 3. What women read: contemporary women's writing and the bestseller Diana Holmes PART TWO: Society, Culture, Family 4. Vichy, Jews, enfants caches: French women writers look back Lucille Cairns 5. Wives and daughters in literary works representing the harkis Susan Ireland 6. (Not) seeing things: Marie NDiaye, (negative) hallucination and 'blank' metissage Andrew Asibong 7. Rediscovering the absent father, a question of recognition: Despentes, Tardieu Lori Saint-Martin 8. Babykillers: Veronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on motherhood Natalie Edwards PART THREE: Body, Life, Text 9. The becoming of anorexia and text in Amelie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim Amaleena Damle 10. The human-animal in Ananda Devi's texts: towards an ethics of hybridity? Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy 11. Embodiment, environment and the re-invention of self in Nina Bouraoui's life-writing Helen Vassallo 12. Irreverent revelations: women's confessional practices of the extreme contemporary Barbara Havercroft 13. Contamination anxiety in Annie Ernaux's twenty-first-century texts Simon Kemp PART FOUR: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics 14. Experience and experiment in the work of Marie Darrieussecq Helena Chadderton 15. Interfaces: verbal/visual experiment in new women's writing in French Shirley Jordan 16. 'Autofiction + x = ?': Chloe Delaume's experimental self-representations Deborah B. Gaensbauer 17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong theorie)? Anne Garreta's sphinxes Owen Heathcote 18. Amelie the aesthete: art and politics in the world of Amelie Nothomb Anna Kemp 19. Conclusion Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye
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French and Francophone Studies
Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France Life as Literature
Edited by Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye
University of Wales Press
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
Series Editors
Hanna Diamond (University of Bath) Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University)
Editorial Board
Ronan le Coadic (Université Rennes 2) Nicola Cooper (Swansea University) Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London) Didier Francfort (Université Nancy 2) Sharif Gemie (University of Glamorgan) H. R. Kedward (Sussex University) Margaret Majumdar (Goldsmiths College, University of London) Nicholas Parsons (Cardiff University)
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
Life as Literature
EDITED BY AMALEENA DAMLÉ AND GILL RYE
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2013
© The Contributors, 2013
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.
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ISBN e-ISBN
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The rights of the Contributors to be identiîed as authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire
In memoriam Elizabeth Fallaize
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Contents
Part One: Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
Chapter 3:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6:
Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Introduction Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye
What ‘Passes’?: French Women Writers and Translation into English Lynn Penrod
What Women Read: Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Best-seller Diana Holmes
Part Two: Society, Culture, Family
Vichy, Jews,Enfants Cachés: French Women Writers Look Back Lucille Cairns
Wives and Daughters in Literary Works Representing theHarkisSusan Ireland (Not) Seeing Things: Marie NDiaye, (Negative) Hallucination and ‘Blank’MétissageAndrew Asibong
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17
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47
60
73
Rediscovering the Absent Father, a Question of Recognition: Despentes, Tardieu Lori Saint-Martin Babykillers: Véronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on Motherhood Natalie Edwards
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Part Three: Body, Life, Text
The Becoming of Anorexia and Text in Amélie Nothomb’sRobert des noms propresand Delphine de Vigan’sJours sans faimAmaleena Damlé
The Human-Animal in Ananda Devi’s Texts: Towards an Ethics of Hybridity? Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
212
‘Autoîction + x = ?’: Chloé Delaume’s Experimental Self-Representations Deborah B. Gaensbauer
Chapter 16:
196
183
Part Four: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics Chapter 14: Experience and Experiment in the Work of Marie Darrieussecq Helena Chadderton Chapter 15: Interfaces: Verbal/Visual Experiment in New Women’s Writing in French Shirley Jordan
87
Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
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Chapter 12:
Chapter 11:
Chapter 13:
Embodiment, Environment and the Reinvention of Self in Nina Bouraoui’s Life-Writing 141 Helen Vassallo Irreverent Revelations: Women’s Confessional Practices of the Extreme Contemporary 154 Barbara Havercroft Contamination Anxiety in Annie Ernaux’s Twenty-First-Century Texts 168 Simon Kemp
Chapter 10:
Chapter 8:
Chapter 7:
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Chapter 9:
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