This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It argues that multilingual authors create new paradigms for life writing and that they question our understanding of categories such as "French literature."

Dr. Natalie Edwards is Associate Professor of French at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She specializes in women's writing, life writing and translingual writing in French. She is the author of Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography (2011) and Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French (2016). She is co-editor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Visual Art in French Autobiography (2011) and Framing French Culture (2015) and of ten edited volumes on contemporary French and Francophone literatures.

Introduction

Chapter 1

Lydie Salvayre: Translanguaging, Testimony and History

Chapter 2

French-Vietnamese Translanguaging in the Work of Kim Thúy

Chapter 3

"En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire": Catherine Rey's Franco-Australian Life-Writing

Chapter 4

Gisèle Pineau's Evolving Translanguaging: From Un Papillon dans la cité to L'Exil selon Julia to Mes quatres femmes

Chapter 5

Staging Resistance to the Language of the Colonizer: Chantal Spitz's Translanguaging

Chapter 6

Hélène Cixous's Franco-German Translanguaging in Une Autobiographie allemande

Conclusion