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BL
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| Record Number
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589976
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b419195
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| Title & Author
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Women taking risks in contemporary autobiographical narratives /\ edited by Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds
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| Publication Statement
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Newcastle upon Tyne :: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,, 2013
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| Page. NO
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ix, 232 p. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1443849790
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: 9781443849791
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Contains bibliographical references (p. 215-227)
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| Contents
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A fine risk / Trudy Agar -- Exorcising obscenity / Marzia Caporale -- Ken Bugul's story and Herstory ? / Christopher Hogarth -- Strange and terrible / Noelle Giguere -- Worth the risk / Cathy Jellenik -- Virginie Despentes and the risk of a twentieth-century autobiographical manifesto / Natalie Edwards -- The words that say ot / Amy L. Hubbell -- In the name of the father / Adrienne Angelo -- Leila Abouzeid and Houria Boussejra / Anna Rocca -- Women's creative performance / Nevine el Nossery -- "Fiancee du danger" / Jean Anderson -- Running risks / Jane E. Evans -- A venture from Guadeloupe to Paris / Boukary Sawadogo -- Is testimony too risque for literature ? / Isabelle Favre
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| Abstract
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"[The book] explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of live events. ... The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women's articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French." -- from dustjacket
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| Subject
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Women authors, French-- History and criticism
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African literature (French)-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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Caribbean literature (French)-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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Self in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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840.99287
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| LC Classification
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PQ149.W66 2013
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PQ149.W66 2013
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| Added Entry
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Rocca, Anna
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Reeds, Kenneth S
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