focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose formal experiments and revisions of genre have combined to create an entirely new set of literary forms. The series publishes studies of individual authors and artists, comparative studies and interdisciplinary projects.

Helena Chadderton is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She was awarded her PhD in French Studies by the University of Lancaster in 2009 and has previously taught at the University of Nottingham and Bangor University. She is the author of several articles on the work of Marie Darrieussecq.

Contents: Problematiziation of the division between text and the external world – The co-existence of social realism and metafiction – The role of social discourse in the formation of identity – Metafictional textual strategies – The expression of subjective experience – The questioning of social and textual boundaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis