Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women

Polly Galis, Ciara Gorman, Julie Rodgers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83624-540-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women engages with the notion of disruption in women’s cultural production in French from a wide range of perspectives, spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and incorporating a variety of Francophone contexts. With a pluri-genre focus, the volume interrogates both the conceptualisation and textual representation of disruption in a myriad of forms including social, political, physical and sexual manifestations of disruptive behaviour. Organised thematically, the chapters consider inter alia angles such as ageing, motherhood, activism, queerness and migrancy and how they relate to the overarching topic of disruption. The volume is particularly concerned with the gendered dynamics of disruption and an exploration as to why certain values and behaviours are deemed transgressive and problematic when applied to women. Perhaps most importantly, the volume is interested in the creative potential of disruption to challenge oppressive norms, stereotypes and social structures. When harnessed affirmatively, as the chapters demonstrate, disruption becomes an effective tool of transformation and can produce new ways of thinking and being for women outside of patriarchal systems. Disruptive Discourses not only highlights the importance of listening to women who speak out and speak up, it also celebrates and reappropriates disruption as a powerful and positive attribute.

Polly Galis is a Policy Advisor for the Open Innovation Team in the UK Government’s Department for Education. Ciara Gorman is Teaching Fellow in French at UCD and the Communications Officer for Women in French UK-Ireland. Julie Rodgers is Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies at the School of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Introduction, Polly Galis, Ciara Gorman, Julie Rodgers

Part One: Archetypal Disruptors, Disrupting Archetypes

Chapter 1. ‘Colette and the Other Woman’, Diana Holmes

Chapter 2. ‘Black Mariannes: Disrupting and Reimagining Marianne in the Name of French Universalism?’ Jasmine D. Cooper

Chapter 3. ‘Greying Goes Digital: #uneapparitionsophiefontanel’, Adina Stroia

Part Two: Disruptive Stories Across Space and Time

Chapter 4. ‘Legal, Political and Textual Disruption: The Autobiographical Writing of Gisèle Halimi’, Natalie Edwards

Chapter 5. ‘Affronter les ogres: Subversive Storytelling in Dalila Kerchouche’s Mon Père, ce Harki (2003) and Zahia Rahmani’s ‘Musulman’: Roman (2005)’, Clíona Hensey

Chapter 6. ‘“La France, c’est comme ça?”: Gender and the Quest for Asylum in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence and Marie Darrieussecq’s La Mer à l’envers’, Dominique Carlini Versini

Part Three: Disruptive Bodies, Voices and Gazes

Chapter 7. ‘Disruptive Bodies and Voices in Ananda Devi’s Le Rire des déesses’, Adrienne Angelo

Chapter 8. ‘Looking Back as Disruption in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Sciamma, 2019)’, Peadar Kearney

Chapter 9. ‘Voicing the Silenced Bodies: Nicole Malinconi’s Hôpital silence’, Caroline Verdier

Part Four: Violent and ‘Vulgar’ Disruption

Chapter 10. ‘Disruption and Eruption: Terrorist Violence in the Work of Virginie Despentes’, Alexandra Pugh

Chapter 11. ‘Women Always Have to Put Up a F****g Fight: Coralie Fargeat’s *Revenge (2017) and Transgressive, Transnational Feminism’, Emma Flynn

Chapter 12. ‘Paroxysmal Rhythms in Anne F. Garréta’s La Décomposition and Sphinx’, Áine Larkin

Conclusion, Polly Galis, Ciara Gorman, Julie Rodgers

Erscheinungsdatum	20.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures ; 107
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-83624-540-8 / 1836245408
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-540-7 / 9781836245407
Zustand	Neuware