Wandering Women in French Film and Literature

How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films.

This book is of particular interest to French Studies scholars, especially those who work on feminist analyses of literature and film in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, or who study the particular novels or films she analyzes. the book's work on narrative and feminist analysis remains highly relevant and a necessary addition to existing scholarship in French studies. (Melissa Bailar, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, newprairiepress.org, Vol. 41 (2), June, 2017)

Autorentext
Mariah Devereux Herbeck is Associate Professor of French at Boise State University, USA.

Inhalt

1. An Introduction to Narrative Drift 2. 'Qui suis-je?' 3. Impersonal Narrative: Fade to Lack: Detachment and Discontinuity 4. Personal Narrative: Taking it Personally: Men Telling the Stories of Wandering Women 5. Pluralized Narrative: More is Less? The Paradox of Pluralized Perspectives