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Le personnel est politique : médias, esthétique, et politique de l'autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan / Mercédès Baillargeon.
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Baillargeon, Mercédès, 1984-
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French
Published/Created
West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]
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Description
xii, 206 pages ; 23 cm.
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PQ637.A96 B35 2019
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Subject(s)
Autobiographical fiction
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History and criticism
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French fiction
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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French fiction
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21st century
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History and criticism
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French fiction
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Self in literature
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Angot, Christine
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Criticism and interpretation
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Delaume, Chloé 1973-
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Criticism and interpretation
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Arcan, Nelly 1973-2009
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Criticism and interpretation
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Series
Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 75.
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Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; volume 75
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Summary note
"Looking at questions of testimony, confession, trauma, sexuality, and violence in (semi-) autobiographical works, this book explores the co-construction of personal and collective identities by women writers in the age of self-disclosure and mass media. In a time when literature is accused of being self-centered and overly narcissistic, women’s autofiction in France since the turn of the millennium has been received with controversy because it disrupts readily accepted ideas about personal and national identities, gender and race, and fiction versus autobiography. Through the study of polemical writers Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, and Nelly Arcan, Mercédès Baillargeon contends that, by recounting personal stories of trauma and sexuality, and thus opposing themselves in opposition to social convention, and by refusing to dispel doubts regarding the fictional or factual nature of their texts, autofiction resists and helps redefine categories of literary genre and gender identity. This book analyzes concurrently the textual and sociopolitical implications that underlie the (de)construction of the autofictional subject, and particularly how these writers constantly redefine themselves through performance and self-fashioning made possible by media and technology. Moreover, this work raises important questions relating to the media’s complicated relationship with women writers, especially those who discuss themes of trauma, sexuality, and violence, and who also question the distinction between fact and fiction. Proposing a new understanding of autofiction as a form of littérature engagée, this work contributes to a broader understanding of the French publishing establishment and of the literary field as a cultural institution, as well as new insight on shifting notions of identity, the Self, and nationalism in today’s ever-changing and multicultural French context." -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
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Abstract also in English.
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Médias, esthétique, et politique de l'autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan
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9781557538574 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1557538573 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1612495680
1612495699
9781612495682
9781612495699
LCCN
2018036917
OCLC
1051779666
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