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Gill Rye
How does reading literature change our life? How does it change the way we see each other? In what ways can reading impact on who we are and what we…
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Robert Payne
Reimagining the Family is the first book-length study of representations of lesbian mothering in French literature. Focusing on female-authored texts published between 1970 and 2013, the book explores how literature…
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Elizabeth Sercombe
Strange Adventures examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux. Throughout, Fleutiaux’s depictions are shown to pose a challenge to existing conceptions of womanhood and…
Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women’s writing engages creatively with socio-political issues…
Aims both to reflect and to foster the extraordinary ongoing impact of Helene Cixous’s writing across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and literary forms
Polly Galis
This prize-winning book is the first comparative study of Francophone authors Annie Ernaux, Nancy Huston and Nelly Arcan, exploring their representation of sex, sexuality and the body from a feminist…
Women’s Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes…
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Pauline Eaton
Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France, but in Marie NDiaye’s writing, mothers often appear inadequate, abusive or even murderous. This book seeks to explore…
Rosie MacLachlan
Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Nina Bouraoui persistently explores the question of self-expression in her work. This study of Bouraoui’s work examines…
Alberica Bazzoni
Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) is increasingly regarded as a central figure in modern Italian literature. This study follows her autofictional journey, identifying themes in her work such as freedom, the body…
Mazal Oaknin
Focusing on authors Ana Maria Matute, Rosa Montero, and Lucia Etxebarria, this book examines how women writers are marketed in Spain and, in particular, how current marketing strategies reinforce traditional…
This introduction to and analysis of women’s writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts…
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Natalie Edwards
This book looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women writing in French. It brings together authors who stake out a new terrain, creating a textual space in which…
Rye Owen
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Includes selected papers drawn from the conference held in his memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, in May 2008, inspired by his work in…
Caroline E. Kelley
Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954-1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are the topics explored by contemporary writers in this volume on French, German and Italian women’s writing. Eating disorders are presented as both a rebellion…
This book explores cultural representations of motherhood in Europe and considers how they affect how motherhood is negotiated as both institution and lived experience. It focuses on literature, and also…
