Struggling for Breath: Reflections on Respiration in Ananda Devi's Les Jours vivants
(2021)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2021). Struggling for Breath: Reflections on Respiration in Ananda Devi's Les Jours vivants
Outputs (7)
Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre (2019)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2019). Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 22(3-4), 179-211. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00001_1This 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.
The Wild Becoming of Childhood: Writing as Monument in Nina Bouraoui's Sauvage (2013)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2013). The Wild Becoming of Childhood: Writing as Monument in Nina Bouraoui's Sauvage. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 49(2), 166-174. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs069This 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
Damlé, A. (2013). Towards a Poetics of Reconciliation: Humans and animals in Ananda Devi’s writing. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 15(3), 497-516. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.15.3-4.497_1This 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.
Posthuman Encounters: Technology, Embodiment and Gender in Recent Feminist Thought and in the Work of Marie Darrieussecq (2012)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2012). Posthuman Encounters: Technology, Embodiment and Gender in Recent Feminist Thought and in the Work of Marie Darrieussecq. Comparative Critical Studies, 9(3), 303-318
Truismes: The Simulation of a Pig (2012)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2012). Truismes: The Simulation of a Pig. Dalhousie French studies, 98, 15-27
Gender Performance in the Work of Judith Butler and in Cristina Peri Rosi's La nave de los locos (2008)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2008). Gender Performance in the Work of Judith Butler and in Cristina Peri Rosi's La nave de los locos