Solitaires, Solidaires

Conflict and Confluence in Women’s Writings in French

Elise Hugueny-Léger, Caroline Verdier (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

265 Seiten

2015 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-8025-1 (ISBN)

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Solitaires, Solidaires stems from the 2013 Women in French conference, which celebrated twenty-five years since the creation of the network of the same name, and brought together the Women in French UK and Women in French in Scotland meetings, which had, until then, been running en solitaire on each side of the border. It therefore seemed opportune to reflect on the theme of female solidarity, its various shapes and constructions, and its meaning.Studies included in this bilingual volume focus on the representation of female solidarity and solitude in French and Francophone society, literature, journalism and history, covering texts ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries. The various contributions explore how the construction of female solidarities and identities has depended not only on networks, dialogues and correspondences, but also (and often simultaneously) on isolation, confrontations and rivalry between women, and on unconventional representations of femininity and motherhood.

Elise Hugueny-Léger is a Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews. She specialises in first-person writing in contemporary French literature, with a first book entitled Annie Ernaux, une poétique de la transgression (Peter Lang, 2009), and Projections de soi, a book in preparation on autofiction and the moving image. In addition to numerous publications and talks on Ernaux, she has contributed articles and chapters on Duras and intellectuals, Camille Laurens’ writings, and autofiction and crime fiction.Caroline Verdier is a Lecturer in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature, particularly Belgian women writers. She has published articles on Elisa Brune and co-edited Francographies: Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens, with Susan Bainbrigge and Joy Charnley (Peter Lang, 2010), and As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age, with Joy Charnley (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).

Erscheinungsdatum	23.01.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4438-8025-6 / 1443880256
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-8025-1 / 9781443880251
Zustand	Neuware