Marie Nimier
Le Sujet et ses Ă©critures / The Self in the Web of Language
- 300 pages
- English
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Marie Nimier
Le Sujet et ses Ă©critures / The Self in the Web of Language
About this book
In the postwar literary culture of France, under the influence of Structuralism and its aftermath, deference to «the text in itself» meant that literary studies eschewed discussing narrators or characters as subjects and deriving social or political commentary from specific texts. In reaction to this trend, which also influenced the writing of novels, a new generation of authors have sought instead to focus on developing innovative ways of conceptualizing subjecthood, identity and agency.
Marie Nimier's writing abundantly exemplifies this «return of the subject» in the rich diversity of the fifteen novels she has published since SirÚne in 1985, blending fiction and life-writing. Her narrators/protagonists typically strive to achieve forms of agency which are made possible, yet also threatened, by the ostensible «givens»: heritage, memory, gender, relationships, desire, social environment and, not least, language itself. This volume explores central aspects of self and subject in her oeuvre to date and includes two short stories which Nimier formally publishes here for the first time, one with an English translation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Marie Nimier: The Self in the Web of Language/ Le Sujet et ses Ă©critures (David Gascoigne and ana de Medeiros)
- Un virgule six mÚtres carrés (Marie Nimier)
- La Filiation et ses complexes Problematic Heritages
- Ăcrire le moi sensible, sensuel Writing Sentience and Sensuality
- Le Sujet et la littérarité The Subject in the Web of Literature
- Un sujet qui se cherche : lâexemple de La Plage La Plage and the Search for Selfhood
- Nimier : dialogue et mises en scĂšne Nimier in Dialogue and Performance
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index(revised)_converted_p283-286.pdf