Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Seeking Selfhood in the Textual – Acts of Resistance: Rewriting Gender and Sexuality – Garçon manqué: Resisting Language as Violence – La vie heureuse: Reappropriating the Self – Poupée bella: Textual Escape – Recovering from Loss: The Textual Return to Algeria – Le jour du séisme: Broken Land, Broken Childhood – Sauvage and Mes mauvaises pensées: Coming of Age in Algeria – Sauvage and Mes mauvaises pensées: Leaving Childhood Behind – Writing for Others? Relational Identity and the Textual Encounter – Poupée bella and Avant les hommes: Escaping Isolation through Reading – Appelez-moi par mon prénom: Textual Relations – Nos baisers sont des adieux: Resolving the Quest

About the Author

Rosie MacLachlan lectures in learning development in London and southeast England, specialising in the teaching of language and literacy in higher education. She completed an MSt in Modern Languages at St John’s College, University of Oxford, and a PhD in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

Reviews

«Overall, this essay on Nina Bouraoui’s autofictional writing makes an important contribution to gender and genre studies in the field of Francophone literature, along with constituting a very thorough analysis of Bouraoui’s work that is, as far as I know, unprecedented.»
(Nathalie Segeral, H-France Review Vol. 17/2017)

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