Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New literatures in the 1990s Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Louise L. Lambrichs: trauma, dream and narrative	29
2	Evermore or nevermore? Memory and identity in Marie Redonnet's fiction of the 1990s	42
3	The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf's melancholic autofiction	53
4	Lost and found: mother-daughter relations in Paule Constant's fiction	65
5	Puzzling out the fathers: Sibylle Lacan's Un pere: puzzle	77
6	Anatomical writing: Blasons d'un corps masculin, L'Ecrivaillon and La Ligne apre by Regine Detambel	93
7	'On ne s'entendait plus et c'etait parfait ainsi' (They could no longer hear each other and it was just fine that way): misunderstandings in the novels of Agnes Desarthe	106
8	Textual mirrors and uncertain reflections: gender and narrative in L'Hiver de beaute, Les Ports du silence and La Rage au bois dormant by Christiane Baroche	118
9	The articulation of beur female identity in the works of Farida Belghoul, Ferrudja Kessas and Soraya Nini	130
10	Saying the unsayable: identities in crisis in the early novels of Marie Darrieussecq	142
11	Experiment and experience in the phototextual projects of Sophie Calle	157
12	Christine Angot's autofiction: literature and/or reality?	171
13	'Il n'y a pas de troisieme voie' (There is no third way): Sylvie Germain and the generic problems of the Christian novel	182
14	The subversion of the gaze: Sherazade and other women in the work of Leila Sebbar	195
15	Unnatural women and uncomfortable readers? Clotilde Escalle's tales of transgression	207
	Conclusion	222
	Individual author bibliography	226
	General bibliography	250
	Index	258