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

Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge auto/biography studies Routledge auto/biography studies. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2020) Subject French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Autobiography -- Women authors -- History and criticism French literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism Autobiography in literature. Multilingualism and literature. Translanguaging BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Multilingualism and literature French literature -- Women authors French literature -- Foreign countries Autobiography -- Women authors Autobiography in literature Bilingualism and literature Women authors, French Multilinguisme et littérature -- Histoire. Littérature française. Femmes écrivains de langue française. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019055868 ISBN 9780429619892 0429619898 9780429622045 042962204X 9780429617744 0429617747 9780429054877 0429054874

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