Table of Contents

Contents: Francophone Belgian writing: from Neel Doff to Amelie Nothomb (a literary and cultural analysis of selected writings by Neel Doff, Suzanne Lilar, Dominique Rolin, Jacqueline Harpman, Francoise Mallet-Joris, Jean Muno, Nicole Malinconi, and Amelie Nothomb) - Identity and alterity: intertextuality and its relationship to canon formation - Depictions of the themes of marginality and belonging, exile and alienation - Belgium and beyond - Experimental writing practices: autobiography and autofictions - Genre innovations - The place of Belgian francophone writing in francophone (and other) frameworks.

About the Author

The Author: Susan Bainbrigge is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has published on a variety of authors in twentieth-century and contemporary fiction and autobiography, including Writing against Death: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir.