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Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives
Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject. The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women’s articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French. Among many themes, the book fosters discussion on matters of courage, strength, resilience, freedom, self-fulfillment, political engagement, compassion, faith, and the envisioning of unconventional alliances that follow a woman’s stepping out of ...
Madness in Twentieth-century French Women's Writing
This book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women's writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc's L'Asphyxie (1946), Marguerite Duras's Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964), Simone de Beauvoir's 'La Femme rompue' (1967), Marie Cardinal's Les Mots pour le dire (1975), Jeanne Hyvrard's Les Prunes de Cythère (1975) and Mère la mort (1976). The discussion traces the evolution in the way madness is taken up by women authors from the key period starting just prior to the emergence of second-wave feminism and culminating at the height of the écriture féminine project. This study argues that madness offers itself up to these authors as a powerful means to convey a certain ambivalence towards changing contemporary ideas on the authority of authorship. On the one hand a highly enabling means to figure transgression, the madwoman is equally the repository for a twentieth-century 'anxiety of authorship' on the part of the woman writer.
Fish Swimming
Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and the open sea, fish have solved the problems of life in deserts, in the deep sea, in the cold antarctic, and in warm waters of high alkalinity or of low oxygen. Along with these adaptations, we find the most impressive specializations of morphology, physiology and behaviour. For example we can marvel at the high-speed swimming of the marlins, sailfish and warm-blooded tunas, air-breathing in catfish and lung fish, parental care in the mouth-brooding cichlids and viviparity in many sharks and toothcarps. More...
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Mosco...
Genre Fusion
Although the boom in historical fiction and historiography about Spain's recent past has found an eager readership, these texts are rarely studied as two halves of the same story. With Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain, Sara J. Brenneis argues that fiction and nonfiction written by a single author and focused on the same historical moment deserve to be read side-by-side. By proposing a literary model that examines these genres together, Genre Fusion gives equal importance to fiction and historiography in Spain. In her book, Brenneis develops a new theory of "genre fusion" to show how authors who write both historiography and fiction produce a ...
Violette Leduc, la mal-aimée
Etude de la vie et de l'oeuvre de Violette Leduc, à cheval sur deux génération et qui a subi, dans les années 60, une sévère mise à l'écart.
Jean Giono
Grande voix à la fois solitaire, indépendante, libre, et solidaire de ceux et celles qui savaient partager les complexités et les simplicités de sa vision, celle de Jean Giono nous a donné quelques-uns des chefs-d’œuvre de notre modernité : Colline (1929), Que ma joie demeure (1935), Un roi sans divertissement (1947), Le hussard sur le toit (1951). Œuvre qui ne cesse de se renouveler – « il faut lire tout Giono, dit Pierre Citron, comme il faut lire tout Balzac » pour en saisir la secrète et émouvante continuité –, celle de Giono n’est plus platement divisible en une manière pseudo-stendhalienne et une autre, qui la précéderait, idyllique, rustique. L’étude de Cole...
Marie Cardinal
Née en 1929 en Algérie, repatriée en France pendant la guerre d'indépendance, Marie Cardinal fait partie de la génération de femmes écrivains qui prennent le devant de la scène littéraire française dans les années soixante-dix. L'oeuvre de Cardinal est une oeuvre personnelle mais aussi profondément politique. Elle dénonce les mécanismes qui oppriment les femmes et d'autres groupes. L'Algérie, la psychanalyse, les événements de mai 68 sont les trois expériences fondamentales sur lesquelles s'appuie son oeuvre. C'est presque toujours la même histoire qui se répète, comme chez Marguerite Duras. L'écriture obsessionnelle fait naître peu à peu le sujet féminin dans une langue riche, débarrassée des scories du sexisme. De livre en livre, à travers les différentes narratrices, l'épopée féminine se constitue. Cette étude nous convie à l'exploration de ce continent féminin et universel.
Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia
Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.
