Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France

Acknowledgement
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors

Part One: Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Trends and Issues
1. Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Introduction
      Amaleena Damlé 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 Best-seller
      Diana Holmes
Part Two: Society, Culture, Family
4. Vichy, Jews, Enfants Cachés: French Women Writers Look Back
      Lucille Cairns
5. Wives and Daughters in Literary Works Representing the Harkis
      Susan Ireland
6. (Not) Seeing Things: Marie NDiaye, (Negative) Hallucination and ‘Blank’ Métissage
      Andrew Asibong
7. Rediscovering the Absent Father, a Question of Recognition: Despentes, Tardieu
      Lori Saint-Martin
8. Babykillers: Véronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on Motherhood
      Natalie Edwards
Part Three: Body, Life, Text
9. The Becoming of Anorexia and Text in Amélie Nothomb’s Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan’s Jours sans faim
      Amaleena Damlé
10. The Human-Animal in Ananda Devi’s Texts: Towards an Ethics of Hybridity?
      Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
11. Embodiment, Environment and the Reinvention of Self in Nina Bouraoui’s Life-Writing
      Helen Vassallo
12. Irreverent Revelations: Women’s Confessional Practices of the Extreme Contemporary
      Barbara Havercroft
13. Contamination Anxiety in Annie Ernaux’s Twenty-First-Century Texts
      Simon Kemp
Part Four: Experiments, Interfaces, Aesthetics
14. Experience and Experiment in the Work of Marie Darrieussecq
      Helena Chadderton
15. Interfaces: Verbal/Visual Experiment in New Women’s Writing in French
      Shirley Jordan
16. ‘Autofiction + x = ?’: Chloe Delaume’s Experimental Self-Representations
      Deborah B. Gaensbauer
17. Beyond Antoinette Fouque (Il y a deux sexes) and Beyond Virginie Despentes (King Kong théorie)? Anne Garréta’s Sphinxes
      Owen Heathcote
18. Amélie the Aesthete: Art and Politics in the World of Amélie Nothomb
      Anna Kemp

Conclusion
      Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye

Works Cited
Index