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'oeuvre de Marie NDiaye - Daisy Connon: Marie NDiaye's haunted house: uncanny autofiction in Autoportrait en vert .