{"product_id":"autofiction-antonia-wimbush-9781835536933","title":"Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile\u003c\/i\u003e explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. Drawing on postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory, the book analyses narratives of exile by six authors who are shaped by their multiple locales of attachment: Kim Lef?vre (Vietnam\/France), Gis?le Pineau (Guadeloupe\/mainland France), Nina Bouraoui (Algeria\/France), Mich?le Rakotoson (Madagascar\/France), V?ronique Tadjo (C?te d'Ivoire\/France), and Abla Farhoud (Lebanon\/Quebec). In this way, the book argues that the French colonial past continues to mould female articulations of mobility and identity in the postcolonial present.\u003cbr\u003eResponding to gaps in the critical discourse of exile, namely gender, this book brings \u003ci\u003egenre \u003c\/i\u003ein both its forms -- gender and literary genre -- to bear on narratives of exile, arguing that the reconceptualization of categories of mobility occurs specifically in women's autofictional writing. The six authors complicate discussions of exile as they are highly mobile, hybrid subjects. This rootless existence, however, often renders them alienated and 'out of place'. While ensuring not to trivialize the very real difficulties faced by those whose exile is not a matter of choice, the book argues that the six authors experience their hybridity as both a literal and a metaphorical exile, a source of both creativity and trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antonia Wimbush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 183553693X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835536933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Antonia Wimbush","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46526384374015,"sku":"9781835536933","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_852b5960-17d6-449c-82c6-a3527c20541b.jpg?v=1737556027","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/autofiction-antonia-wimbush-9781835536933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}