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Women's Fiction in Postfeminist France: Léonora Miano, Camille Laurens, and Chick-Lit or Romances urbaines.
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Nottingham French Studies . Dec2022, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p294-306. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Women make up a significant majority of fiction readers, in France as elsewhere, and the novel has long been – and remains – a widely shared medium that both reflects and reflects on gender norms and their effects on women's lives. My paper examines three contemporary female-authored novels covering the spectrum from 'literary' to popular fiction, each of which might be described as a postfeminist story for a postfeminist France. The texts are: Camille Laurens' Celle que vous croyez (2016); Marie Vareille's Je peux très bien me passer de toi (2015); Léonora Miano's Blues pour Élise (2010). My analysis asks in what ways the contemporary 'women's novel' reflects postfeminist culture, in its negative sense as a market-oriented co-optation of feminist aims and achievements but also in its more positive sense, as a new stage in feminist struggles. To what extent can pleasurable fictions not only acknowledge the realities of a postfeminist climate, but also question and challenge them? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *POPULAR fiction
*SOCIAL norms
*FICTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00294586
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nottingham French Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160428965
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2022.0361