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

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Following a long tradition of objectification, 20th-century French feminism often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing. But how has the promotion of 'women's writing' in such thought and literature evolved in the years preceding and following the turn of the millennium? What sorts of bodily questions and problems do contemporary female writers evoke? How are traditional conceptions of the boundaries of the female body contested, exceeded or transformed? And how do contemporary philosophical discourses correspond to the ways that literary authors conceptualise, and write, the female body? Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 10 Introduction: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French......Page 12 1. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism......Page 41 2. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb’s An-Organic Flux of Immanence......Page 73 3. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi’s Writing......Page 103 4. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq’s Literature of Simulation and Dispersal......Page 134 5. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui’s Writing......Page 165 Concluding Thoughts......Page 194 Works Cited......Page 198 Index......Page 219