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Soi-disant : life-writing in French

Title: Soi-disant : life-writing in French / edited by Juliana de Nooy, Joe Hardwick & Barbara E. Hanna.
Author: Australian Society for French Studies. Annual Conference (11th : 2003 : Brisbane, Qld., and Ipswich, Qld.)
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2005.

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Description

125 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"A cross-section of current work in autobiographical studies, Soi-disant brings together essays on Raymond Quenean, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Jeanne Hyvrard, Amelie Nothomb, Yves Navarre, Catherine Pozzi, Marie Bashkirtseff, and the history of Maghreb literature. It highlights the intertextual nature of autobiographical writing, the ways in which it is shaped by other texts of various genres and bears the traces of these textual intersections." "Reflecting contemporary preoccupations in autobiographical studies, the collection demonstrates that the aim has moved beyond the policing of a genre. Autobiographical practices are taken to be plural and considered as sets of discursive maneuvers. The essays are thus concerned less with defining what life-writing is than with raising questions about what it can do performatively, whether in diaries, autobiographies subtitled as such and novels read as autobiographies, or in such unlikely genres as fourteenth century travel writing in Arabic and the elaborate games of OuLiPo texts."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Monash Romance studies

Uniform Title

Monash Romance studies (Newark, Del.)

Subject

Genre/Form

Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Actes de congrès.

Note

The majority of these papers were presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies, held July 2003 in Brisbane and Ipswich.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

English and French.

Contents

Writing the self in French : (p)actes autobiographiques / Joe Hardwick, Juliana de Nooy, Barbara E. Hanna -- Hide and seek : autobiographical secrets in the work of Queneau and Perec / Chris Andrews -- Friend or foe? : misidentification, abject selfhood, and Genet's queer reception / Claire Boyle -- "Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la vérité" : Genet's queer subjectivities / Elizabeth Stephens -- Les Racines culturelles de l'autobiographie au Maghreb / Driss Aïssaoui -- "L'idée d'(auto)biographie m'est étrangère" : the life and writing of Jeanne Hyvrard / Cathy Wardle -- "La plus grande autobiographie de l'univers" : l'hyper-autobiographie d'Amelie Nothomb / Hélène Jaccomard -- S'écrire, se créer : recherche formelle et quête identitaire chez Yves Navarre / Sylvie Lannegrand -- Personal encounters : Catherine Pozzi as reader of Marie Bashkirtseff's journal / Sonia Wilson.

ISBN

0874139325
9780874139327
0874139171
9780874139174

LCCN

2005050573

OCLC

ocm60589230
60589230
SCSB-9140542

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library