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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."
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."
The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key
works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book
looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women
writing in French. The book explores how women narrate their
decision not to mother, the issues that they face in doing so and
the narrative techniques that they employ to justify their stories.
It asks how these authors challenge stereotypes of the childless
woman by claiming their own identity in narrative, publicly
proclaiming their right to choose and writing a femininity that is
not connected to motherhood. Using feminist, sociological and
psychoanalytic theories to interrogate non-mothering, this work is
the first book-length study of narratives that counter this
long-standing taboo. It brings together authors who stake out a new
terrain, creating a textual space in which to take ownership of
their childlessness and call for new understandings of female
identity beyond maternity.
Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent
years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was,
might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and
cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity.
"Textual and Visual Selves" investigates, from a variety of
theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the
visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas--and
images--of self-representation.
Surprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or
film does not necessarily serve to shore up the referentiality of
the autobiographical account: on the contrary, the inclusion of
visual material can even increase indeterminacy and ambiguity. Far
from offering documentary evidence of an extratextual self
coincident with the "I" of the text, these images testify only to
absence, loss, evasiveness, and the desire to avoid
objectification. However, where Roland Barthes famously saw the
photograph as a prefiguration of death, in this volume we see how
the textual strategies deployed by these writers and artists result
in work that is ultimately life-affirming.
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