Affaires de famille : : the family in contemporary French culture and theory / / edited by Marie-Claire Barnet and Edward Welch.

• Superior document: Faux titre, 292
• TeilnehmendeR: Barnet, Marie-Claire.; Welch, Edward, 1973-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; no. 292.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Notes: 11 English, 7 French contributions.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; The Law of Sacrifice: Race and the Family in Marie Ndiaye’s En famille and Papa doit manger /; Figuring Out the Family: Family as Everyday Practice in Contemporary French Women’s Writing /; Maudire, dire les maux ou chercher les mots pour dire? L’écriture du souvenir dans la fiction de Lorette Nobécourt /; Dans la Pente du toit d’Anne-Marie Garat: élaboration, déconstruction du conte familial /; Coming out of the Family? Julien Green’s Jeunesse (1974), Hervé Guibert’s Mes Parents (1986) and Christophe Honoré’s L’Infamille (1997) /; Ordinary Shameful Families: Annie Ernaux’s narratives of affiliation and (mis)alliance /; La Famille autofictive de Sophie Calle, ou ‘Comment la fiction fait un trou dans le réel’ /; Pascal Convert and the Family: History, Conflict and Creativity /; Le Nom du Père: la métaphore paternelle chez Lacan /; Horreur du noir: les nouveaux ‘enfants terribles’ du cinéma français /; ‘Les enfants d’abord’: Home and alternative schooling in contemporary France. /; Family Differences: Immigrant Maghrebi Families in Contemporary French Cinema /; Girls on Film: Mothers, Sisters and Daughters in Contemporary French Cinema. /; Où va le roman familial? Chaos de Coline Serreau (2001) /; Family Histories: Reproduction, Cloning and Incest in Louise Lambrichs /; Family Tragedies: Child Death in Recent French Literature /; La Famille (du cinéma) en désordre: Roudinesco and Contemporary French Cinema /; Scènes de (remue-)ménage: Les airs de famille de Valérie Mréjen /; Notes on Contributors --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401204128; 1429481145
• ISSN: 0167-9392
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marie-Claire Barnet and Edward Welch.

‘Famille, je vous ai (encore et toujours à l’esprit?), je vous aime un peu, beaucoup, ou je vous hais énormément?’ What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) cohesion, (fake) coherence, (carefully planned or subversive) deconstruction, loss (of love, confidence or credibility), or, even (utter) chaos and (alarming) confusion? Which media revamp old stereotypes, generate alternative reinterpretations, and imply more ambiguous answers? What images, scenes or frames stand out in contemporary representations of the family? Uneasy contradictions and ambiguities emerge in this bilingual collection of approaches and genre studies. The family plot seems to thicken as family ties appear to loosen. Has ‘the family’ been lost from sight, or is it being reinvented in our collective imaginary? This book proposes a new series of perspectives and questions on an old and ‘familiar’ topic, exploring the state and status of the family in contemporary literature, culture, critical and psychoanalytic theory and sociology.