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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France: Life as Literature

Conceived and co-edited with Gill Rye, this is the first book-length publication on female-authored literature of this period. It analyses a vibrant body of writing by established, prizewinning and best-selling authors, as well as emerging, innovative voices. The book explores urgent contemporary themes, including feminism, the body, racial identity, sexual identity, family relations, trauma, society, history and war, while addressing literary issues from translation to popular fiction, life-writing and aesthetic experiment. It is framed by a comprehensive introduction and a conclusion (co-authored equally by the editors), and includes an individual contribution authored by Amaleena Damlé on contemporary relations between the body, starvation and signification.