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Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves

Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves

Edwards, Natalie

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367150328
ISBN13: 9780367150327
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 21 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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