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The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French by Amaleena Damlé (review)

The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French by Amaleena Damlé (review) Amaleena Damlé, The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, 214 pp. Amaleena Damlé's book investigates the ways in which the female body has been conceptualized and configured in the works of four contemporary francophone women writers, Amélie Nothomb, Ananda Devi, Marie Darrieussecq, and Nina Bouraoui. In their writings, the body is apprehended as in flux and defying boundaries, which impacts its common representation and signification. Damlé situates these positions with respect to earlier feminist assessments of corporeality and links them to the reflection on becoming undertaken by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The first chapter of The Becoming of the Body is devoted to those thinkers' recasting of subjectivity and/in the world, and the following chapters discuss the transformative interplay at work between Deleuze and Guattari's thought and each of the writers' multifaceted approaches when addressing female bodily becoming. Deleuze's emphasis on non-binary difference, dynamism, and multiplicity is analyzed in its political and artistic potential for feminism and for rethinking desire and the shape and boundaries of essentialized biological bodies; yet Damlé returns more than once in her book to the ambivalent reception of Deleuze in feminist thought after exposing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French by Amaleena Damlé (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 40 – Nov 11, 2016
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Amaleena Damlé, The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women's Writing in French Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, 214 pp. Amaleena Damlé's book investigates the ways in which the female body has been conceptualized and configured in the works of four contemporary francophone women writers, Amélie Nothomb, Ananda Devi, Marie Darrieussecq, and Nina Bouraoui. In their writings, the body is apprehended as in flux and defying boundaries, which impacts its common representation and signification. Damlé situates these positions with respect to earlier feminist assessments of corporeality and links them to the reflection on becoming undertaken by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The first chapter of The Becoming of the Body is devoted to those thinkers' recasting of subjectivity and/in the world, and the following chapters discuss the transformative interplay at work between Deleuze and Guattari's thought and each of the writers' multifaceted approaches when addressing female bodily becoming. Deleuze's emphasis on non-binary difference, dynamism, and multiplicity is analyzed in its political and artistic potential for feminism and for rethinking desire and the shape and boundaries of essentialized biological bodies; yet Damlé returns more than once in her book to the ambivalent reception of Deleuze in feminist thought after exposing

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