Struggling for Breath: Reflections on Respiration in Ananda Devi's Les Jours vivants
(2021)
Journal Article
Outputs (23)
Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre (2019)
Journal Article
This article explores representations of fasting and feasting in Le Voile de Draupadi (1993) and Manger l’autre (2018) by contemporary Francophone Mauritian author, Ananda Devi, teasing out the resistant strategies of (not) eating to the power dynami... Read More about Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre.
Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. (2014). Introduction. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Aventures et expériences littéraires : écritures des femmes au début du vingt-et-unième siècle (5-18). Rodopi-Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210850
The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French (2014)
Book
Following a long tradition of objectification, twentieth-century French feminism has often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing. But how has the promotion of ‘women’s writing... Read More about The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French.
Multiple et changeante: amour, connaissance et fragilité dans Nos baisers sont des adieux de Nina Bouraoui (2014)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. (2014). Multiple et changeante: amour, connaissance et fragilité dans Nos baisers sont des adieux de Nina Bouraoui. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Aventures et expériences littéraires: écritures des femmes au début du vingt-et-unième siècle (125-141). Rodopi-Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210850_009
Aventures et expériences littéraires : Ecritures des femmes en France au début du vingt-et-unième siècle (2014)
Book
Dans ce nouveau millénaire, le champ littéraire en France continue à nous offrir des écrivains et des écrivaines étincelant(e)s, qui ne craignent pas de provoquer et de prendre des risques littéraires et philosophiques. Plus que jamais, les écrivaine... Read More about Aventures et expériences littéraires : Ecritures des femmes en France au début du vingt-et-unième siècle.
The Mutant Metamorphic Subject: Femininity and Embodiment in Virginie Despentes' King Kong Théorie (2013)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. (2013). The Mutant Metamorphic Subject: Femininity and Embodiment in Virginie Despentes' King Kong Théorie. In G. Rye, & A. Damlé (Eds.), Experiment and experience : women's writing in France 2000-2010 (13-27). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0494-7
Conclusion (2013)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A., & Rye, G. (2013). Conclusion. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature (251-252). University of Wales Press
Experiment and Experience: Women's Writing in France 2000-2010 (2013)
Book
Experiment and Experience is a collection of critical essays on twenty-first-century women-authored literature in France. In particular, the volume focuses on how contemporary women's writing engages creatively with socio-political issues and real-li... Read More about Experiment and Experience: Women's Writing in France 2000-2010.
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature (2013)
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Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France is a collection of critical essays on recent women-authored literature in France. It takes stock of the themes, issues and trends in women's writing of the first decade of the twenty-first century, and i... Read More about Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature.
Introduction (2013)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A., & Rye, G. (2013). Introduction. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Women's writing in twenty-first-century France : life as Llterature. (3-16). University of Wales Press
The Wild Becoming of Childhood: Writing as Monument in Nina Bouraoui's Sauvage (2013)
Journal Article
This article explores the writing of childhood in Sauvage (2011) by the contemporary francophone writer Nina Bouraoui, a text that narrates the experiences of fourteen-year-old Alya in Algeria as she struggles to comprehend the disappearance of her f... Read More about The Wild Becoming of Childhood: Writing as Monument in Nina Bouraoui's Sauvage.
Towards a Poetics of Reconciliation: Humans and animals in Ananda Devi’s writing (2013)
Journal Article
This article analyses the flux of metamorphosis that is richly evoked in the literary works of the Mauritian-born writer Ananda Devi and that testifies both to the radical positions of alterity experienced by her various protagonists and to the polit... Read More about Towards a Poetics of Reconciliation: Humans and animals in Ananda Devi’s writing.
Truismes: The Simulation of a Pig (2012)
Journal Article
Devenir-autre: Female Corporeality and Nomadic Transformation in Ananda Devi's Writing (2011)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. (2011). Devenir-autre: Female Corporeality and Nomadic Transformation in Ananda Devi's Writing. In V. Bragard, & S. Ravi (Eds.), Écritures mauriciennes au féminin: Penser l'altérité (155-177). L'Harmattan
Phantasmal Relics: Psychoanalytical and Deconstructive Ghosts in the Literature of Ananda Devi (2009)
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. (2009). Phantasmal Relics: Psychoanalytical and Deconstructive Ghosts in the Literature of Ananda Devi. In P. Collier, A. M. Elsner, & O. Smith (Eds.), Anamnesia: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture (229-240). Peter Lang
The Becoming of Anorexia and Text in Amélie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. The Becoming of Anorexia and Text in Amélie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres and Delphine de Vigan's Jours sans faim. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature (113-126). University of Wales Press
Introduction
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. Introduction. In A. Damlé, & A. L'Hostis (Eds.), The Beautiful and the Monstrous: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture (1-19). Peter Lang
Nomadic Trajectories: Postfeminism and Contemporary Women's Writing in French
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. Nomadic Trajectories: Postfeminism and Contemporary Women's Writing in French. In M. Allison, & A. Kershaw (Eds.), Parcours de femmes: Twenty Years of Women in French (133-150). Peter Lang
Death and the Maiden: Murder and Eroticism in the Literature of Amélie Nothomb
Book Chapter
Damlé, A. Death and the Maiden: Murder and Eroticism in the Literature of Amélie Nothomb. In E. Hoft-March, & J. Holland Sarnecki (Eds.), Aimer et mourir: Love, Death and Women's Lives in Texts of French Expression (98-123). Cambridge Scholars Publishing