Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies)

By: Natalie Edwards

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Synopsis: 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."

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 176 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429622045
Related ISBNs:: 9780429054877, 9780367150327, 9780367150327, 9780367150327, 9781032087566, 9780429054877
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/26/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.