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A critical investigation of contemporary statements of the female body in French literature and philosophy
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. Amaleena Damlé addresses questions of bodies, boundaries and philosophical discourses by exploring the intersections between a range of contemporary philosophers and authors on the subject of contemporary female corporeality and transformation.
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French
2. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism
3. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb’s An-Organic Flux of Immanence
4. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi’s Writing
5. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq’s Literature of Simulation and Dispersal
6. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui’s Writing
7. Conclusion
Works Cited.
1. Introduction: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French
2. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism
3. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb’s An-Organic Flux of Immanence
4. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi’s Writing
5. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq’s Literature of Simulation and Dispersal
6. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui’s Writing
7. Conclusion
Works Cited.
About the Author
Amaleena Damlé is Research Fellow in French at Girton College, University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in 20th and 21st century French philosophy and literature, with a particular interest in identity, the body, gender and sexuality. She is the author of several articles on contemporary women’s writing in French, and the co-editor (with Gill Rye) of Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France (2013), Experiment and Experience (2013), Aventures et expériences littéraires (2013, forthcoming) and, with Aurélie L’Hostis, The Beautiful and the Monstrous (2010).
Reviews
In this bold and challenging study, Amaleena Damlé brilliantly engages with both literature and philosophy as they attempt to address the vexed question of human embodiment. Reading contemporary writing by women alongside works by Gilles Deleuze proves to be both theoretically bracing and politically enlightening. This book deserves to be widely read.
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