Multilingual life writing by French and francophone women translingual selves / Natalie Edwards.
| Author/creator | Edwards, Natalie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge auto/biography studies |
| Contents | Lydie Salvayre: translanguaging, testimony and history -- French-Vietnamese translanguaging in the work of Kim Th©ðy -- "En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire": Catherine Rey's Franco-Australian life-writing -- Gis©·le Pineau's evolving translanguaging: from Un Papillon dans la cit©♭ to L'Exil selon Julia to Mes quatres femmes -- Staging resistance to the language of the colonizer: Chantal Spitz's translanguaging -- H©♭l©·ne Cixous's Franco-German translanguaging in Une Autobiographie allemande -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Edwards, Natalie. Multilingual life writing by French and francophone women New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. 9780367150327 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019055868 |
| ISBN | 9780429619892 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9780429054877 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9780429622045 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | 9780429617744 (mobi) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |