Protean selves : first-person voices in twenty-first-century french and francophone / edited by Adrienne Angelo and Erika Fülöp ; contributors, Jean Anderson [and thirteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelo, Adrienne, editor.

Fülöp, Erika, editor.

Anderson, Jean, 1951- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First person narrative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to write ""I"" in postmodern society, in a world in which technological advances and increased globalization have complicated notions of authenticity, origins, and selfhood? Under what circumstances and to what extent do authors lend their scriptural authority to fictional counterparts? What role does naming, or, conversely, anonymity play vis-à-vis the writing and written ""I""? What aspects of identity are subject to (auto)fictional manipulations? And how do these complicated ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; SECTION II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; SECTION III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; SECTION IV; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 18, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6611-3

OCLC:

890444908