Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women : translingual selves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Natalie.

Series:

Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism and literature.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

NEW YORK : ROUTLEDGE, 2019.

Language Note:

English

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."

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:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-61989-8

0-429-05487-4

0-429-62204-X

9780429054877

OCLC:

1124918024