The motif of the 'identity quest' features strongly in much contemporary French women's writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question of self-expression in her work, experimenting with a variety of self-representational modes and emphasising the importance of language to the construction of her sense of self.
Considering the textual identities produced through Bouraoui's work in the period 1999-2011, this book examines how self-referential writing...
The motif of the 'identity quest' features strongly in much contemporary French women's writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Boura...
