TY - BOOK ID - 69085656 TI - Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women : translingual selves. PY - 2019 SN - 0367150328 0429619898 0429054874 042962204X 9780429622045 9780429054877 9780429617744 0429617747 9780429619892 9780367150327 1032087560 PB - NEW YORK : ROUTLEDGE, DB - UniCat KW - French literature KW - Women authors, French. KW - Multilingualism and literature. KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Bilingualism and literature. KW - Literature and bilingualism KW - Literature KW - Biography: literary;Literature: history and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69085656 AB - This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop to incorporate more than one language into their life writing: French and English, French and Creole, or French and German, for example. The book demonstrates how women writers transform languages to invent new linguistic formations and how they create new formulations of subjectivity within their self-narrative. It intervenes in current debates over global literature, national literatures and translingual and transnational writing, which constitute major areas of research in literary and cultural studies. It also contributes to debates in linguistics through its theoretical framework of translanguaging. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature." ER -