Title: Contemporary French fiction by women : feminist perspectives /
Authors: Atack, Margaret.; Powrie, Phil.
Publisher: Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: French fiction Women authors History and criticism.; Feminism and literature France History; French fiction History and criticism.; Women and literature France History; Feminist fiction History and criticism.
Contents: Resisting romance : Simone de Beauvoir : 'The woman destroyed' and the romance script / Elizabeth Fallaize -- Realism, fantasy and feminist meaning : the fiction of Christiane Rochefort / Diana Holmes -- Class, sexuality and subjectivity in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides / Loraine Day -- The politics of identity in Elise ou la vraie vie / Margaret Atack -- Body and culture : the representation of sexual, racial and class differences in Lachmet's Le Cow-boy / Judith Still -- Marguerite and the mountain / Trista Selous -- Geneviève Serreau : theatre of fiction / Ian Fairley -- Michèle Perrein : the parenthesis as metaphor of the female condition / Gabrielle Parker.