page_title: My Heart Hemmed In
section_title: Genre
hierarchical_section_title: My Heart Hemmed In / Genre
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017. Marie NDiaye druckt mit der Gutenbergpresse Français&#160;: Foire du Livre de Francfort 2017. Marie NDiaye imprime sur la presse d'imprimerie Gutenberg.
context_page_description: My Heart Hemmed In is a novel written by Marie NDiaye and translated into English by Jordan Stump in 2017. The publisher of the French novel was Éditions Gallimard. Two Lines Press published Stump’s translation.
  The novel follows Nadia, a middle aged teacher, as she tries to understand her changing circumstances and the reasons they are changing. She struggles to determine why society has begun to exclude her and her husband so completely. Nadia’s narration of the novel provides the reader with a first-hand account of her descent into paranoia. Her fear is heightened by the physical danger in which the hatred has placed her husband, by her mutating environment, and by the people whose roles in her life have shifted in unexpected and disturbing ways.
  My Heart Hemmed In, along with other pieces by NDiaye, has received attention in multiple scholarly articles/books and global conventions.
context_section_description: My Heart Hemmed In has received classifications as different genres. Some label it as a “contemporary nightmare” with elements of both the surreal and reality that contribute to an unnerving sense. Other authors call NDiaye’s book a “light fantastic.” This term results from a quote by NDiaye herself which discusses how her mix of reality and the fantastic allows her to “lighten up the heaviness of the world.” The 'light fantastic" label includes a discussion of how NDiaye uses modernity, well-known cities, and common technological appliances to create a space the reader recognizes as their own. Bringing elements of fiction and psychological confusion into her setting allows NDiaye to create senses of both reality and paranoia within her protagonist and her readers.  Some critics do not label My Heart Hemmed In with a genre at all but instead give a range within which they believe it falls. Between “magical realism and narrative paranoia” is a possible spectrum for the novel.
caption: Marie NDiaye, the author of My Heart Hemmed In.
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