Redefining the Real

The Editor: Margaret-Anne Hutton is Professor of French at St Andrews University, and works primarily on contemporary – increasingly, twenty-first-century – French literature. Other key current research interests include representations of World War II (testimonial texts, crime fiction) and fictional representations of the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath.

• Contents: Margaret-Anne Hutton: Introduction – Catherine Rodgers: Between ‘white’ and ‘blanc’: the margin of the fantastic in Marie Darrieussecq’s White – Gill Rye: Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays: threshold worlds – Philippa Caine: Redefining the boundaries of corpo-reality for la femme in Marie Darrieussecq’s Naissances des fantômes – Marinella Termite : Métamorphose des objets – Margaret Topping: Orientalism and fairytale in Amélie Nothomb’s autofictions – Rosalind Silvester: Reincarnation in Ying Chen’s works: reality, fantasy or madness? – Sabine Loucif : Le fantastique dans Les trois Parques de Linda Lê – Margaret Braswell: Domestic chores, celestial bodies: the phenomenon of women’s labour in the poetry of Vénus Khoury-Ghata – Annik Doquire Kerszberg : Antonine Maillet et l’écriture à remonter le temps – Jean-Xavier Ridon : Elizabeth Vonarburg : pour une redéfinition du voyage spatio-temporel – Julia Dobson: Cixous’s theatre and the dramatic returns of the dead – Margaret-Anne Hutton: Textures and spectres in Sylvie Germain’s Magnus – Deborah Gaensbauer: Further outside the bounds: mobilization of the fantastic as trauma narrative in Marie NDiaye’s En famille – Marie-Claire Barnet : ‘Espèce de vilaine fée’ ou comment les esprits revinrent à Eve Brulard : la sorcière dans l’œuvre de Marie NDiaye – Daisy Connon: Marie NDiaye’s haunted house: uncanny autofiction in Autoportrait en vert.