Author Description

"Women's writing in twenty-first-century France is a collection of critical essays on recent women-authored literature in France. It takes stock of themes, issues and trends in women's writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and it engages critically with the work of individual authors through close textual readings. Etablished authors from the so-called 'new generation' of young French writers of the 1990's are discussed - Christine Angot, Nina Bouraoui, Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Ananda Devi, Marie NDiaye, Amélie Nothomb - alongside exciting new authors deserving of further critical attention - Chloé Delaume, Claudie Gallay, Anna Gavalda, Véronique Olmi, Laurence Tardieu. Themes covered in the essays range from poular fiction to history, from the body and identity to textual experiments and translation." -- Back cover.