Beyond Ecriture Feminine

"Beyond Ecriture Feminine" is the first book to be published exploring the work of the contemporary French author Jeanne Hyvrard (1945- ) from her early novels of the 1970s to more recent texts of the 1990s and beyond. Moving critical accounts of Hyvrard beyond a focus upon ecriture feminine, it identifies the patterns through which her writing repeats and transforms creation mythology, her own oeuvre, and her own life, examining how intertextual repetitions bind her work together into a complex and ever-expanding web of allusions and resonances which engages the reader in a process of constant re-interpretation, challenging notions of linearity and reflecting the 'chaotic' reality of life in the Hyvrardian world.