The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French

ISBN-13: 9780748668212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str.

Amaleela Daml?

Opis

Following a long tradition of objectification, 20th-century French feminism often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing.
But how has the promotion of 'women's writing' in such thought and literature evolved in the years preceding and following the turn of the millennium?
What sorts of bodily questions and problems do contemporary female writers evoke?
How are traditional conceptions of the boundaries of the female body contested, exceeded or transformed?
And how do contemporary philosophical discourses correspond to the ways that literary authors conceptualise, and write, the female body?

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French; 2. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism; 3. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb’s An-Organic Flux of Immanence; 4. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi’s Writing; 5. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq’s Literature of Simulation and Dispersal; 6. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui’s Writing; 7. Conclusion; Works Cited.