The Becoming of the Body : : Contemporary Women's Writing in French / / Amaleena Damlé.
A critical investigation of contemporary statements of the female body in French literature and philosophyFollowing 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Crosscurrents : CROSS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Contemporary Women's Writing in French
- 1. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism
- 2. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb's An-Organic Flux of Immanence
- 3. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi's Writing
- 4. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq's Literature of Simulation and Dispersal
- 5. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui's Writing
- Concluding Thoughts
- Works Cited
- Index