Marie Nimier
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Marie Nimier

Le Sujet et ses Ă©critures / The Self in the Web of Language

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Marie Nimier

Le Sujet et ses Ă©critures / The Self in the Web of Language

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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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Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2021
ISBN
9781800791961
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: Marie Nimier: The Self in the Web of Language/ Le Sujet et ses Ă©critures (David Gascoigne and ana de Medeiros)
  5. Un virgule six mÚtres carrés (Marie Nimier)
  6. La Filiation et ses complexes Problematic Heritages
  7. Écrire le moi sensible, sensuel Writing Sentience and Sensuality
  8. Le Sujet et la littérarité The Subject in the Web of Literature
  9. Un sujet qui se cherche : l’exemple de La Plage La Plage and the Search for Selfhood
  10. Nimier : dialogue et mises en scĂšne Nimier in Dialogue and Performance
  11. Bibliography
  12. Notes on Contributors
  13. Index(revised)_converted_p283-286.pdf