Marie Ndiaye: Blankness and Recognition - Couverture rigide

Asibong, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846319463 ISBN 13 : 9781846319464

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye's world lurks an indefinable 'blankness' which makes it impossible for the reader to decode narrative at the level of psychology or event. NDiaye's texts explore social stigmata and familial disintegration with a violence unmatched by any of her contemporaries, but in doing so they remain as strangely affectless and 'unrecognizable' as their dissociated protagonists. Considering each of NDiaye's works in chronological order (including her novels, theatre, short fiction and writing for children), Asibong assesses the aesthetic, emotional and political stakes of NDiaye's portraits of impenetrable selfhood.His book provides an original and provocative framework within which to read NDiaye as a simultaneously hybrid and hyper - French cultural figure, fascinating and fantastical practitioner of the postmodern - and reluctantly postcolonial - 'blank arts'.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Andrew Asibong's 'Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition' is the authoritative study of one of France's most intriguing and pioneering contemporary authors, indeed of an author whose work compels us at every turn to rethink the ways in which identity, literature, and nationality have heretofore been conceptualized. -- Professor Dominic Thomas A highly intelligent and distinguished book that will be seen as a milestone in the well-deserved critical recognition of a major writer. --Michael Sheringham, Marshal Foch Professor of French, University of Oxford

Biographie de l'auteur :

Andrew Asibong is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and the author of Francois Ozon (Manchester University Press, 2008).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846319463
• ISBN 13: 9781846319464
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 245