Le personnel est politique: Médias, esthétique et politique de l'autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume et Nelly Arcan
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Overview
Looking at questions of testimony, confession, trauma, sexuality, and violence in (semi-) autobiographical works, this book explores the co-construction of personal and collective identities by women writers in the age of self-disclosure and mass media. In a time when literature is accused of being self-centered and overly narcissistic, women’s autofiction in France since the turn of the millennium has been received with controversy because it disrupts readily accepted ideas about personal and national identities, gender and race, and fiction versus autobiography. Through the study of polemical writers Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, and Nelly Arcan, Mercédès Baillargeon contends that, by recounting personal stories of trauma and sexuality, and thus opposing themselves in opposition to social convention, and by refusing to dispel doubts regarding the fictional or factual nature of their texts, autofiction resists and helps redefine categories of literary genre and gender identity. This book analyzes concurrently the textual and sociopolitical implications that underlie the (de)construction of the autofictional subject, and particularly how these writers constantly redefine themselves through performance and self-fashioning made possible by media and technology. Moreover, this work raises important questions relating to the media’s complicated relationship with women writers, especially those who discuss themes of trauma, sexuality, and violence, and who also question the distinction between fact and fiction. Proposing a new understanding of autofiction as a form of littérature engagée, this work contributes to a broader understanding of the French publishing establishment and of the literary field as a cultural institution, as well as new insight on shifting notions of identity, the Self, and nationalism in today’s ever-changing and multicultural French context.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781557538574 |
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Publisher: | Purdue University Press |
Publication date: | 04/15/2019 |
Series: | Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures , #75 |
Pages: | 222 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Language: | French |
About the Author
Mercédès Baillargeon is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of 20th- and 21st-century first-person narrative, the intersection between public/private spaces and discourses, and the (de)construction of personal and/or collective identities. She has contributed to several edited volumes, and has published in the journals Québec Studies, Women in French Studies. She is coediting an upcoming special issue of the journal Contemporary French Civilization on "The Transnationalism of Québec Cinema and (New) Media" with Karine Bertrand (Queen's University). She is also a coeditor for a collection of essays on third-wave feminism in Québec, Remous, ressacs et dérivations autour de la troisième vague féministe, published by Éditions du Remue-ménage in 2011. Her current research explores the question of (post/trans)nationalism in Québec cinema of the new millennium.
Table of Contents
RemerciementsIntroduction: L’autofiction contemporaine des femmes: scandale,
posture et imposture
PREMIÈRE PARTIE: CHRISTINE ANGOT: VICTIME OU MARTYRE?
Chapitre un: Autofiction, métafiction et personnage médiatique chez Christine Angot
Chapitre deux: Lecture, provocation et scandale dans L’Inceste: déjouer le lecteur
Chapitre trois: Quitter la ville: naissance d’une tragédie?
DEUXIÈME PARTIE: CHLOÉ DELAUME: LA VICTIME ENFIN BOURREAU
Chapitre quatre: L’autofiction expérimentale de Chloé Delaume
Table des matières
Chapitre cinq: Les Mouflettes d’Atropos: l’individu dans le collectif
Chapitre six: Le Cri du sablier: déconstruire les fictions individuelles
Chapitre sept: La Vanité des somnambules, ou le rapport au lecteur
TROISIÈME PARTIE: PARI MANQUÉ? NELLY ARCAN, LES MÉDIAS ET LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D’UNE ÉCRIVAINE
Chapitre huit: Le pacte auto/métafictionnel chez Nelly Arcan
Chapitre neuf: Miroir, narcissisme et projection
Chapitre dix: “La honte”: postface
Conclusion: Engagement, médias et nouveaux médias Bibliographie
Index