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- [Browse]
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Book
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French
Published/​Created
  • West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019
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xii, 206 pages ; 23 cm.

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
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    Abstract also in English.
    Other title(s)
    Médias, esthétique, et politique de l'autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, et Nelly Arcan
    ISBN
    • 9781557538574 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1557538573 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1612495680
    • 1612495699
    • 9781612495682
    • 9781612495699
    LCCN
    2018036917
    OCLC
    1051779666
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