The Becoming of the Body - Damlé, Amaleena
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'In this bold and challenging study, Amaleena Damlé brilliantly engages with both literature and philosophy as they attempt to address the vexed question of human embodiment. Reading contemporary writing by women alongside works by Gilles Deleuze proves to be both theoretically bracing and politically enlightening. This book deserves to be widely read.' Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London Creating altogether new ways of thinking about the female body across a range of cultures Following a long tradition of objectification, twentieth-century French feminism often sought to…mehr

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'In this bold and challenging study, Amaleena Damlé brilliantly engages with both literature and philosophy as they attempt to address the vexed question of human embodiment. Reading contemporary writing by women alongside works by Gilles Deleuze proves to be both theoretically bracing and politically enlightening. This book deserves to be widely read.' Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London Creating altogether new ways of thinking about the female body across a range of cultures Following a long tradition of objectification, twentieth-century French feminism often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing. But how has the promotion of 'women's writing' in such thought and literature evolved in the years preceding and following the turn of the millennium? What sorts of bodily questions and problems do contemporary female writers evoke? How are traditional conceptions of the boundaries of the female body contested, exceeded or transformed? And how do contemporary philosophical discourses correspond to the ways that literary authors conceptualise, and write, the female body? Amaleena Damlé addresses these questions by exploring the intersections between a range of contemporary philosophers and authors on the subject of contemporary female corporeality and transformation. Amaleena Damlé is Research Fellow in French at Girton College, Cambridge. Cover image: Paul Saroglou, no title, 2000, Oil on canvas, 125 x 94 cm (c) Paul Saroglou. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com
Autorenporträt
Amaleena Damlé is Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University. She is a specialist in 20th and 21st century French philosophy and literature, with a particular interest in identity, the body, gender and sexuality. She is the author of several articles on contemporary women's writing in French, and the co-editor (with Gill Rye) of Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France (2013), Experiment and Experience (2013) and, with Aurélie L'Hostis, The Beautiful and the Monstrous (2010).