Table of Contents

Contents: Jacques de Decker: Preface: Nothomb avec un b comme Belgique/Nothomb with a b as in Belgium - Susan Bainbrigge/Jeanette den Toonder: Introduction - Helene Jaccomard: Self in Fabula: Amelie Nothomb's Three Autobiographical Works - Desiree Pries: Piscina: Gender Identity in Metaphysique des tubes - Victoria B. Korzeniowska: Bodies, Space and Meaning in Amelie Nothomb's Stupeur et tremblements - Cathrine Rodgers: Nothomb's Anorexic Beauties - Lenaik Le Garrec: Beastly Beauties and Beautiful Beasts - Philippa Caine: 'Entre-deux' Inscription of Female Corporeality in the Writing of Amelie Nothomb - Jean-Marc Terrasse: Does Monstrosity Exist in the Feminine? A Reading of Amelie Nothomb's Angels and Monsters - Shirley Ann Jordan: Amelie Nothomb's Combative Dialogues: Erudition, Wit and Weaponry - Claire Gorrara: L'Assassinat de l'ecriture: Amelie Nothomb's Les Combustibles - Susan Bainbrigge: 'Monter l'escalier anachronique': Intertextuality in Mercure - David Gascoigne: Amelie Nothomb and the Poetics of Excess - Laureline Amanieux: The Myth of Dionysus in Amelie Nothomb's Work - Mark D. Lee: Amelie Nothomb: Writing Childhood's End - Marinella Termite: 'Closure' in Amelie Nothomb's Novels - Andrew Wilson: 'Sabotage, eh?' Translating Le Sabotage amoureux from the French into the Canadian and the American - Adriana Hunter: Narrative Voice in Amelie Nothomb's Stupeur et tremblements: A Translator's Impression.

About the Author

The Editors: Susan Bainbrigge is Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research interests include twentieth-century French literature, in particular women's writing, feminist theory, autobiography studies, francophone writing, and women in politics. She is the author of articles on Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographies, feminist theory, and the 'parite' debate. A former Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Jeanette den Toonder is currently Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include contemporary French and francophone literature, focusing on the contemporary novel in Quebec, the autobiographical genre and questions of identity. She is the author of Qui est-je?: L'ecriture autobiographique des nouveaux romanciers, as well as numerous articles.