Women taking risks in contemporary autobiographical narratives /
Rocca, Anna.
Reeds, Kenneth S.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
"[The book] explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of live events. ...  The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women's articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French." -- from dustjacket.
Contains bibliographical references (p. 215-227).
A fine risk / Trudy Agar -- Exorcising obscenity / Marzia Caporale -- Ken Bugul's story and Herstory ? / Christopher Hogarth -- Strange and terrible / Noelle Giguere -- Worth the risk / Cathy Jellenik -- Virginie Despentes and the risk of a twentieth-century autobiographical manifesto / Natalie Edwards -- The words that say ot / Amy L. Hubbell -- In the name of the father / Adrienne Angelo -- Leila Abouzeid and Houria Boussejra / Anna Rocca -- Women's creative performance / Nevine el Nossery -- "Fiancee du danger" / Jean Anderson -- Running risks / Jane E. Evans -- A venture from Guadeloupe to Paris / Boukary Sawadogo -- Is testimony too risque for literature ? / Isabelle Favre.
"[The book] explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of live events. ...  The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women's articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French." -- from dustjacket.
Women authors, French
African literature (French)
Caribbean literature (French)
Self in literature.