Women writing in contemporary France

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fiction(s) (cont.)
detective 42, 148–9
and ethics 20
fictionality 159, 173, 175, 176, 178
fictional world/universe 42, 143, 183, 184,
196, 219
metafiction 68, 120, 122, 126
and reality 16, 67, 128, 171–81, 192
see also autofiction(s)
form, literary/poetic 7, 10, 21, 24n.22, 94, 119,
120, 127, 183, 192, 214, 222, 225
and content 2, 3
formal experimentation 174
formal structures 171
Foucault, Michel 6, 24n.13, 219, 221n.17
fragmentation 9, 14, 102, 113, 178
Freud, Sigmund 18, 26n.38, 31, 32, 35, 40n.2,
40n.7, 54–5, 58, 63n.5, 64n.6, 87,
209–10, 214, 221n.9
gaze, the 12, 13, 95, 96, 98, 138, 162, 195–206,
207, 223
gender 7, 13, 19, 22n.3, 86, 118–29, 133–4,
139n.3, 142, 143, 144, 167, 208–10
genre(s) 2, 9–10, 11, 21, 25n.22, 46, 93–4, 99, 103,
124, 148, 171–6 passim, 183–8 passim, 195
Germain, Sylvie 1, 10, 23n.11, 182–94, 224,
239–41
Immensités 183, 191–3, 239, 240
Jours de colère 182, 239, 240
La Pleurante des rues de Prague 193, 239,
240, 241
Le Livre des nuits 182, 184–5, 186, 190,
193n.1, 239, 240
L’Enfant Méduse 186, 187–91, 193, 239, 240
Les Echos du silence 183, 192, 239
Nuit-d’Ambre 185–6, 190, 239, 240
Harpman, Jacqueline 23n.11
Henke, Suzette 17, 26n.35, 61, 62, 64n.17
Héritier, Françoise 7, 24n.16
heterosexuality, heterosexual 13, 123–9
passim, 217, 219
compulsory 7, 24n.15
Holocaust, the 17, 40, 47
see also Auschwitz
homosexuality 13
gay men 13, 126
gay sex 15, 217
homosexual parenting 125–7
hybridity 4, 130, 137, 145
hybrid genre 24n.22, 176
hybrid identity 131, 133
identification 10, 56, 58, 88, 108, 114, 136, 153,
209, 210, 213, 218, 225
identity 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18–20, 70, 76, 106–16,
118–21 passim, 158, 159, 195, 208–10, 222,
224
beur female 20, 130–41, 225
in crisis 142–53
feminine 83, 86, 87, 143
gender(ed) 86, 97, 128, 208, 210
Jewish 32, 33
and memory 42–52
photograph 200–4 passim
politics 9, 19, 26n.43, 130, 219
quest for 12, 43, 44, 45
self- 70, 73
sexual 81, 108, 134, 209
women’s 16, 123, 134
incest 25n.23, 29, 35–6, 172, 176, 178, 212–13
see also abuse, sexual
intersubjectivity 76, 164
intertextuality 25n.22, 88, 89, 179, 196
intertext(s) 116n.10, 182
intertextual links 88
intertextual material 184–5, 188–90
intertextual relationship 120–1
Irigaray, Luce 7–8, 19, 23n.6, 24n.14, 24n.17,
44, 50, 52n.7, 76n.8, 213, 221n.11
Kessas, Ferrudja 130–5 passim, 224, 241
Beur’s story 130–9 passim, 241
Klein, Melanie
on mourning 18–19, 26n.38, 71–3, 76n.6
on phantasy 31–2, 40n.4
Kristeva, Julia 3, 8, 9, 24n.19, 53, 54–6, 61, 63n.1,
76n.4, 153n.5, 209, 210, 220n.6, 221n.9
Lacan, Jacques 6, 14, 18, 25n.25, 77–90 passim
Lacan, Sibylle 18, 20, 77–90, 222, 241–2
Un père: puzzle 18, 77–90, 241, 242
Lambrichs, Louise L. 1, 12, 17, 19, 29–40, 222,
224, 242
A ton image 29, 35–9 passim, 242
Journal d’Hannah 19, 29–35, 39–40, 222,
242
Laurens, Camille 23n.11
Lê, Linda 1, 22n.6
Lejeune, Philippe 174, 176, 181n.10
loss 16–21 passim, 29–40 passim, 48, 53–63
passim, 70, 72, 74, 137, 142, 147, 148, 210,
222, 224
of memory 47, 50
of mother 17, 18, 55–6, 66, 67, 71, 76n.4
of self 17, 67, 163, 215, 216
Maghreb(ian) 132, 140n.12, 196
women 195, 204
magic(al) realism 185, 186, 194n.11
masculinity 8, 94, 122, 213, 215