Stolen Limelight: Gender, Display and Displacement In Modern Fiction in French
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Stolen Limelight: Gender, Display and Displacement In Modern Fiction in French
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
23rd August 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Film history, theory or criticism
843.00935
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
A study of the revelatory and displacing effects of display in twentieth-century French literature.
Spotlights ask spectators to desire or recoil from an object, yet they also transform the object into something unrecognizable. In Stolen Limelight, Margaret E. Gray traces these moments of illicit visibility through six twentieth-century French fictions, including canonical novels by Gide, Colette, Mauriac, and Duras as well as African Francophone writer Oyono and detective novelist Japrisot. Attentive to gendered tensions, Stolen Limelight teases out the displacing, destabilizing effects of display.
Author Bio
Margaret E. Gray is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University/Bloomington, USA, specialising in twentieth-century French and Francophone fiction.
