Women taking risks in contemporary autobiographical narratives
By: edited by Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781443849791
Subjects: French Women authors; History and criticism; African literature (French); Women authors; Caribbean literature (French); Self in literature
Description: "[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.
Notes: Contains bibliographical references (p. 215-227)
Table of contents: title: A fine risk / Trudy Agar; title: Exorcising obscenity / Marzia Caporale; title: Ken Bugul's story and Herstory ? / Christopher Hogarth; title: Strange and terrible / Noelle Giguere; title: Worth the risk / Cathy Jellenik; title: Virginie Despentes and the risk of a twentieth-century autobiographical manifesto / Natalie Edwards; title: The words that say it / Amy L. Hubbell; title: In the name of the father / Adrienne Angelo; title: Leila Abouzeid and Houria Boussejra / Anna Rocca; title: Women's creative performance / Nevine el Nossery; title: "Fiancee du danger" / Jean Anderson; title: Running risks / Jane E. Evans; title: A venture from Guadeloupe to Paris / Boukary Sawadogo; title: Is testimony too risque for literature ? / Isabelle Favre.