Multilingual life writing by French and francophone women : translingual selves / Natalie Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Natalie, author.

Series:

Routledge auto/biography studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Women authors.

Autobiography--Women authors--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

French literature--Foreign countries--History and critcism.

Autobiography in literature.

Multilingualism and literature.

Translanguaging.

French literature--Foreign countries.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lydie Salvayre: translanguaging, testimony and history

French-Vietnamese translanguaging in the work of Kim Thúy

En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire: Catherine Rey's Franco-Australian life-writing

Gisèle Pineau's evolving translanguaging: from Un Papillon dans la cité to L'Exil selon Julia to Mes quatres femmes

Staging resistance to the language of the colonizer: Chantal Spitz's translanguaging

Hélène Cixous's Franco-German translanguaging in Une Autobiographie allemande

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Edwards, Natalie, Multilingual life writing by French and francophone women

ISBN:

9780367150327

0367150328

OCLC:

1133662875