Experiment and Experience

Gill Rye is Professor Emerita and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, where she is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing and editor of the series Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing.Amaleena Damlé is Research Fellow in French at Girton College, Cambridge. She is a specialist in modern literature and thought and has written various articles, book chapters and a forthcoming monograph in the field of contemporary women’s writing.

• Contents: Amaleena Damlé: The Mutant Metamorphic Subject: Femininity and Embodiment in Virginie Despentes’s King Kong théorie – Jeri English: Writing the Self, Writing the Other: New Reflections of Beauvoir in Camille Laurens’s Dans ces bras-là – Ania Wroblewski: Rewriting the Feminine: Sophie Calle and Annie Ernaux Experience and Exploit the Absolute Crime – Siobhán McIlvanney: Fighting for Independence: Leïla Marouane’s La Jeune Fille et la mère and Maïssa Bey’s Cette fille-là – Julie Rodgers: Rewriting the Mother-Daughter Plot: Fête des mères by Florence Emptaz – Jean Anderson: No Second Chances? Grandmothering and Storytelling in the Work of Dominique Mainard – Gill Rye: Marginal Identities and New Kinship Paradigms: Surrogate Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Writing in France – Alexandra Kurmann: Foreclosed Fatherhood: A Decade of Psychoanalytical Experimentation in Linda Lê’s Fiction – Margaret E. Gray: The Cook, Her Narrative, Its Recipes and the Textual Body in Calixthe Beyala’s Comment cuisiner son mari à l’africaine – Lucile Desblache: Women and Apes in Twenty-First-Century French Writing: New Narratives of Experience – Mary Noonan: Un corps vivant de symbôles: Noëlle Renaude’s Staging of the Writing Self – Marie-Claire Barnet: Off Limits: Trans-Border Land and Language in Marie Darrieussecq.