The Editors: Susan Bainbrigge is Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research interests include twentieth-century French literature, in particular women’s writing, feminist theory, autobiography studies, francophone writing, and women in politics. She is the author of articles on Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographies, feminist theory, and the ‘parité’ debate.A former Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Jeanette den Toonder is currently Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include contemporary French and francophone literature, focusing on the contemporary novel in Quebec, the autobiographical genre and questions of identity. She is the author of «Qui est-je?»: L’écriture autobiographique des nouveaux romanciers, as well as numerous articles.

• Contents: Jacques de Decker: Preface: Nothomb avec un b comme Belgique/Nothomb with a b as in Belgium – Susan Bainbrigge/Jeanette den Toonder: Introduction – Hélène Jaccomard: Self in Fabula: Amélie Nothomb’s Three Autobiographical Works – Désirée Pries: Piscina: Gender Identity in Métaphysique des tubes – Victoria B. Korzeniowska: Bodies, Space and Meaning in Amélie Nothomb’s Stupeur et tremblements – Cathrine Rodgers: Nothomb’s Anorexic Beauties – Lénaïk Le Garrec: Beastly Beauties and Beautiful Beasts – Philippa Caine: ‘Entre-deux’ Inscription of Female Corporeality in the Writing of Amélie Nothomb – Jean-Marc Terrasse: Does Monstrosity Exist in the Feminine? A Reading of Amélie Nothomb’s Angels and Monsters – Shirley Ann Jordan: Amélie Nothomb’s Combative Dialogues: Erudition, Wit and Weaponry – Claire Gorrara: L’Assassinat de l’écriture: Amélie Nothomb’s Les Combustibles – Susan Bainbrigge: ‘Monter l’escalier anachronique’: Intertextuality in Mercure – David Gascoigne: Amélie Nothomb and the Poetics of Excess – Laureline Amanieux: The Myth of Dionysus in Amélie Nothomb’s Work – Mark D. Lee: Amélie Nothomb: Writing Childhood’s End – Marinella Termite: ‘Closure’ in Amélie Nothomb’s Novels – Andrew Wilson: ‘Sabotage, eh?’ Translating Le Sabotage amoureux from the French into the Canadian and the American – Adriana Hunter: Narrative Voice in Amélie Nothomb’s Stupeur et tremblements: A Translator’s Impression.