Marie NDiaye

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Author

Andrew Asibong

Publication

2013 - Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

61,250 words, Guess

Page Count

245 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL28358637M
ISBN-139781846319464
OCLC Control Number857110254
Library of Congress Control Number2014378066

Classifications

LCCPQ2674.D53 Z54 2013

Description

This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye?s world lurks an indefinable ?blankness? which makes it impossible for the reader to decode narrative at the level of psychology or event. Considering each of NDiaye?s works (including her novels, theatre, short fiction and writing for children), Asibong assesses the aesthetic, emotional and political stakes of NDiaye?s portraits of impenetrable selfhood. His book provides an original and provocative framework within which to read NDiaye as a simultaneously hybrid and hyper-French cultural figure, fascinating and fantastical practitioner of the postmodern ? and reluctantly postcolonial ? ?blank arts?.

Subjects

Topics

Authors, french Criticism and interpretation French literature, history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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