Critical essays originally in French and English. Short story 'Le compas' published here for the first time in French with English translation. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Marie Nimier : the self in the web of language = le sujet et ses écritures / David Gascoigne and Ana de Medeiros -- Une Virgule six mètres carrés / Marie Nimier -- La filiation et ses complexes = Problematic heritages. The other Nimier : paternal hauntology and queer politics in Marie Nimier's works / Adina Stroia -- À la recherche du père perdu : écriture du deuil et quête identitaire dans La Place d'Annie Ernaux et La Reine du silence de Marie Nimier / Marzia Caporale -- Récits de filiation ou comment défaire les nœuds et renouer les fils : La Reine du silence de Marie Nimier et Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit de Delphine de Vigan / Sylvie Vignes -- Je suis un hommeou l'édification du sujet / Thierry Illouz -- Écrire le moi sensible, sensuel = Writing sentience and sensuality. Marie-Marie : l'optique kaléidoscopique dans Photo-Photo / Carol Murphy -- L'Odeur en papier : Anatomie d'un sens chez Marie Nimier / Marinella Termite -- La Partition du désir / Christian Uwe -- The subject in the web of literature = Le sujet et la littérarité. Generic ambiguity in Les Inséparables / Patricia Hodges -- 'Le roi assis' and 'la Reine du silence' : silent intra-intertexts in Je suis un homme / Lorna Milne -- La Plage de Marie Nimier, un nouveau T. Beach ? / Floriane Blanchot -- Un sujet qui se cherche : l'exemple de 'La Plage' = 'La Plage' and the search for selfhood. Reparative revisions : writing and self-creation in La Plage / Adrienne Angelo -- L'Histoire en partage dans La Plagede Marie Nimier / Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier -- La Plage : l'abstrait, l'élémentaire, le charnel / David Gascoigne -- Nimier : dialogue et mises enscène = Nimier in dialogue and performance. Confession as theatre : Marie Nimier's Les Confidences / Ana de Medeiros -- Enquête-Bifurcations3 / Florence Jou -- Le compas = The compass / Marie Nimier & John Fletcher.
Summary:
"'This volume constitutes a landmark in the study of one of France's foremost contemporary writers. The diversity and originality of its critical approaches and the scholarship and creativity in evidence on every page make it essential reading for anybody interested in Marie Nimier, or in "self and subject" in contemporary writing.' - Professor Shirley Jordan, Newcastle University 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 subjectsand 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 Sirène 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 œuvre, including in her most recent works, and closes with a short story Nimier formally publishes here for the first time in French with English translation"-- Provided by publisher.
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