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Author Australian Society for French Studies. Annual Conference (11th : 2003 : Brisbane, Qld., and Ipswich, Qld.)

Title Soi-disant : life-writing in French / edited by Juliana de Nooy, Joe Hardwick & Barbara E. Hanna
Edition First American edition
Published Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, 2005

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Description 125 pages ; 24 cm
Series Monash Romance studies
Monash Romance studies (Newark, Del.)
Summary "A cross-section of current work in autobiographical studies, Soi-disant brings together essays on Raymond Quenean, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Jeanne Hyvrard, Amelie Nothomb, Yves Navarre, Catherine Pozzi, Marie Bashkirtseff, and the history of Maghreb literature. It highlights the intertextual nature of autobiographical writing, the ways in which it is shaped by other texts of various genres and bears the traces of these textual intersections."
"Reflecting contemporary preoccupations in autobiographical studies, the collection demonstrates that the aim has moved beyond the policing of a genre. Autobiographical practices are taken to be plural and considered as sets of discursive maneuvers. The essays are thus concerned less with defining what life-writing is than with raising questions about what it can do performatively, whether in diaries, autobiographies subtitled as such and novels read as autobiographies, or in such unlikely genres as fourteenth century travel writing in Arabic and the elaborate games of OuLiPo texts."--BOOK JACKET
Notes The majority of these papers were presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies, held July 2003 in Brisbane and Ipswich
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English and French
Subject French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Autobiography in literature -- Congresses.
Self in literature -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author De Nooy, Juliana.
Hardwick, Joe, 1967-
Hanna, Barbara E., 1964-
LC no. 2005050573
ISBN 0874139325 paperback alkaline paper