Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves

ISBN-13: 9780367150327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str.

Natalie Edwards

Opis

This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature."

O autorze

Dr. Natalie Edwards is Associate Professor of French at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She specializes in women’s writing, life writing and translingual writing in French. She is the author of Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography (2011) and Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French (2016). She is co-editor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Visual Art in French Autobiography (2011) and Framing French Culture (2015) and of ten edited volumes on contemporary French and Francophone literatures.