TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asibong,Andrew
TI  - Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition 
SN  - 9781781385678
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / European / French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/c6ba8d86-616c-4581-bfe8-2467c2bf7538
ER  -