Ananda Devi

Feminism, Narration and Polyphony
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3745-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

Reihe: Chiasma

Ananda Devi: Feminism, Narration and Polyphony is the first full-length monograph devoted to Ananda Devi, a dynamic contemporary Francophone writer. Recipient of Prix Louis-Guilloux and Prix Télévision Suisse Romande du Roman, she is described by many as a prototype of a new generation of Mauritian writers. This book analyses Devi’s unconventional polyphonic narratives, particularly, her strategies that allow marginalized narrators to disrupt androcentric and dominant structures of narrative construction, thereby creating hybrid magical spaces for feminine expression. Drawing on the notion of feminist narratology that investigates the relation between gender and narrative, this book focuses on a wide range of Western and non-Western narrative strategies such as plot and plotlessness, narrative metalepsis, pluritemporality, multisubjectivity, myths, folktales and magic. It also demonstrates how her texts become the point of convergence of the West and the non-West, the feminine and the androcentric, the real and the extra-real as muted discourses resurface and traditional distinctions between categories are blurred in favor of alternate and new possibilities. As this book is interdisciplinary in its approach, it will appeal to a broad range of audience from those interested in Contemporary Francophone and Indian-Ocean Literature to scholars in Women’s Writing, Post-Colonial Studies, and Narratology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyagi, Rita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Französisch, Französische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Plot and Plotlessness: Toward Feminine Desire/Quest

Subverting Marriage and the Romance Plot: Redefining Love

Plotlessness and Feminine Desire

Pluritemporality/Multisubjectivity

Reincarnation and Timelessness in L’arbre fouet

Diegetic Complexity: Multiple Narrators

Magical Realism: Devi’s Narrative Tool

Women in Magical Space: Soupir and Souffleur as Feminine Spaces

Magic and Mythology: Rewriting Myths and Folktales

Conclusion

Bibliography