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Multilingual life writing by French and francophone women : translingual selves

Edwards, Natalie, author

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\"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.\"\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: French literature Women authors History and criticism. / Autobiography Women authors History and criticism. / French literature Foreign countries History and critcism. / Autobiography in literature. / Multilingualism and literature. / Translanguaging.
• ISBN: 9780367150327, 0367150328

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ307.A65 E385 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE