Redefining the Real : The Fantastic in Contemporary French and Francophone Women’s Writing
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Modern French Identities
ISBN-10
3039115677
ISBN-13
9783039115679
Edition
New
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 29th, 2009
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
424 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Gender studies: women
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What is ‘the literary fantastic’ and how does it manifest itself in the texts of French and francophone women writers publishing at the close of the twentieth and start of the twenty-first century? What do we mean today when we talk of ‘the real’ and ‘realism’? These are just some of the questions addressed by the papers in this volume which derive from a conference entitled ‘The Fantastic in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French’ held in London in September 2007. This book sets out to refocus through a non-realist lens on the works of high-profile authors (Darrieussecq, Nothomb, Germain, Cixous and NDiaye) and some of their less highly publicised contemporaries. It analyses and mobilises a wide range of both gendered and non-gendered practices and theories of ‘the contemporary fantastic’ whilst critically interrogating both of the latter terms and their inter-relation.
What is ‘the literary fantastic’ and how does it manifest itself in the texts of French and francophone women writers publishing at the close of the twentieth and start of the twenty-first century? What do we mean today when we talk of ‘the real’ and ‘realism’? These are just some of the questions addressed by the papers in this volume which derive from a conference entitled ‘The Fantastic in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French’ held in London in September 2007. This book sets out to refocus through a non-realist lens on the works of high-profile authors (Darrieussecq, Nothomb, Germain, Cixous and NDiaye) and some of their less highly publicised contemporaries. It analyses and mobilises a wide range of both gendered and non-gendered practices and theories of ‘the contemporary fantastic’ whilst critically interrogating both of the latter terms and their inter-relation.
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