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The Becoming of the Body : Contemporary Women's Writing in French.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CrosscurrentsPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780748668229
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Becoming of the BodyDDC classification:
  • 840.99287000000004
LOC classification:
  • PQ149.D365 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Contemporary Women's Writing in French -- 1. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism -- 2. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb's An-Organic Flux of Immanence -- 3. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi's Writing -- 4. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq's Literature of Simulation and Dispersal -- 5. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui's Writing -- Concluding Thoughts -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Amaleena Damlé addresses questions of bodies, boundaries and philosophical discourses in 20th-century French literature by exploring the intersections between a range of contemporary philosophers and authors on the subject of contemporary female corporeal.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Contemporary Women's Writing in French -- 1. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism -- 2. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb's An-Organic Flux of Immanence -- 3. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi's Writing -- 4. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq's Literature of Simulation and Dispersal -- 5. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui's Writing -- Concluding Thoughts -- Works Cited -- Index.

Amaleena Damlé addresses questions of bodies, boundaries and philosophical discourses in 20th-century French literature by exploring the intersections between a range of contemporary philosophers and authors on the subject of contemporary female corporeal.

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