Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women - Translingual Selves (Paperback)

This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature."

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Natalie Edwards
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-208756-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	1-03-208756-0
Barcode:	9781032087566

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