Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life As Literature (University of Wales Press - French and Francophone Studies)
Amaleena Damle
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Description for Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life As Literature (University of Wales Press - French and Francophone Studies)
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Damle, Amaleena; Rye, Gill. Series: French and Francophone Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 410.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
French and Francophone Studies
Condition
New
Weight
409g
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783162062
SKU
V9781783162062
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About Amaleena Damle
Gill Rye is Professor Emerita, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing at the University of London. She specialises in gender studies and French language and literature. Amaleena Damle is an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge and her research interests consist of notions of embodiment, affect, gender and sexuality in 20th- and 21st-century French and francophone ... Read more
Reviews for Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life As Literature (University of Wales Press - French and Francophone Studies)
This thrilling book offers a sensitive, charged, and radically hybrid account of women's writing in France in the current century. Amaleena Damle and Gill Rye have brought together undoubtedly the finest critics in the field. Their volume will be quickly the work of reference on its topic. As such it acts as a beautiful tribute to the brilliant scholar to ... Read more