Le groupe FAAAM a le très grand plaisir d’annoncer la parution de Women’s Life Writing and The Practice of Reading, Palgrave Macmillan, juin 2018. L’ouvrage, co-dirigé par Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni et Claire Bazin, est consacré à la figure de la lectrice dans l’autobiographie au féminin dans le monde anglophone et francophone.
Table des matières
1. Introduction, Valérie Baisnée-Keay
Part I: Reading, Writing & Othering/Authoring Themselves
2. Contrapuntal Reading in Women’s Comics: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Ellen Forney’s Marbles, Julia Watson et Sidonie Smith
3. Rimbaud’s Daughter or Ginsberg’s Son? Patti Smith’s Literary Fathers and Mothers in Just Kids (2010), Stéphanie Genty
4. Reading and Rewriting Herself: Anna Jameson’s Literary Exploration of Canada, Anne-Florence Quaireau
5. The trouble with a book…”: Reading, Writing and Transgression in Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, Valérie Baisnée-Keay
Part II: Reading and Misreading the Canon
6. Art of Mis-Reading: Life’s Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Essays, Nicholas-Pierre Boileau
7. Plunged in a Book: Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous and The Literature of Experience, Ann Jefferson
8. Nancy Huston’s Bad Girl : Classes de littérature:When the Autobiographer Plays Hooky, Anne-Claire Marpeau
Part III: Reading as Resistance and Emancipation
9. The Diary of Alice James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Reader, Laure de Nervaux Gavoty
10. Reading as Emancipation in Harriet Ann Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Delphine Louis-Dimitrov
11. Hannah Crafts’ Dialogizing Autobiography, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, Josette Spartacus
12. Janet Frame’s Autobiographical Trilogy: Birth of an Oeuvre, Claire Bazin
Part IV: Reading to Write Herself in the World
13. Writing Herself as/in Reading the Others in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni
14 . Haunting Books and Stories in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Postethnic Family Memoir Honey and Ashes (1998), Corinne Bigot
15. Reading Fathers, Writing Self: Selfhood Dissolved in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Poetic Memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, Joan Chiung-huei Chang
Part V: Reading Herself through Oral and Written Traditions
16. Homemade Tales of Homespun Lives: The Shared Search for Identity in Culinary Memoirs, Virginia Terry Allen Sherman
17. Reading Culture(s) in American Indian Women Writers’ Autobiographical Essays, Ludmila Martanovschi
18. “Books. Why?” Staging the Reading Act in Louise Erdrich’s Autobiographical Texts, Elisabeth Bouzonviller
Cet ouvrage fait suite à une conférence du groupe faaam organisé en septembre 2016, « She Reads to Write Herself/ La figure de la lectrice dans l’autobiographie féminine »