Siobhan Mcilvanney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1174666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siobhan Mcilvanney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siobhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcilvanney |
| SIGNATURE | MCILVANNEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lucille Cairns , Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women's Writing
Thoughts on Place
in the author's home at Cergy-Pontoise. 1 Our intention was to use an overarching theme -that of place -as a guide or fil rouge allowing us to garner Ernaux's current thoughts and feelings on a range of subjects that have played a pivotal role throughout her writings and her life.In a three-way conversation that lasted throughout the afternoon, we explored the significant places and environments that recur in Ernaux's writings, from the café-épic…
Working through maternal ambivalence
This article examines Leïla Slimani’s 2016 international bestseller Chanson douce through the prism of the work’s portrayal of maternal ambivalence. Such ambivalence is analyzed in relation to the two working mothers represented in the text, Myriam and the nanny Louise, and contextualized within socio-historical, literary and psychoanalytical parameters. The article draws on a wide range of theoretical and ‘applied’ readings of maternal ambivalen…
Miroir, mouroir
This article looks at Simone de Beauvoir’s pioneering text, La Vieillesse, the most significant female-authored text on ageing published in France in the twentieth century. It examines in particular the text’s quasi-occlusion of a female-centred perspective on the role played by the body and sexual expression in women’s experience of ageing. Often viewed as a(n older) sister text to the feminist treatise Le Deuxième Sexe, La Vieillesse’s relative…
Fictionalising the Father in Maïssa Bey’s Entendez-vous dans les montagnes
This contribution analyses the autobiographical récit, Entendez-vous dans les montagnes . . . (2010), by the contemporary Franco-Algerian author, Maïssa Bey, whose father was murdered by the French military during the Franco-Algerian War. It explores Bey’s deliberate transgression of conventional generic categories in her ‘staged’ construction of a dialogic exchange in which an authorial doppelgänger confronts her father’s killer. This segueing o…
Double Vision
This article looks at the thematics of the visual and the visionary in La voyeuse interdite, the first publication of the Franco-Algerian writer Nina Bouraoui. Engaging with a range of theoretical approaches relevant to contemporary women's writing, it points up the significance of representation for Bouraoui's protagonist, Fikria, in both literary and more general political terms. The bi-focal narrative approach in La voyeuse interdite—in which …
Annie Ernaux
Female identity in process in Soraya Nini's Ils disent que je suis une beurette
In this article Soraya Nini's book Ils disent que suis une beurette is subjected to a feminist reading in order to discuss the portrayal of the female socialisation process. Deploying critical methodology including analysis of the narrative, and examining the factor of race, the article points up the continuing pertinence of the category Bildungsroman for women writers of ethnic origin
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Female identity in process in Soraya Nini's Ils disent que je suis une beurette
In this article Soraya Nini's book Ils disent que suis une beurette is subjected to a feminist reading in order to discuss the portrayal of the female socialisation process. Deploying critical methodology including analysis of the narrative, and examining the factor of race, the article points up the continuing pertinence of the category Bildungsroman for women writers of ethnic origin
Annie Ernaux
Double Vision
This article looks at the thematics of the visual and the visionary in La voyeuse interdite, the first publication of the Franco-Algerian writer Nina Bouraoui. Engaging with a range of theoretical approaches relevant to contemporary women's writing, it points up the significance of representation for Bouraoui's protagonist, Fikria, in both literary and more general political terms. The bi-focal narrative approach in La voyeuse interdite—in which …
Fictionalising the Father in Maïssa Bey’s Entendez-vous dans les montagnes
This contribution analyses the autobiographical récit, Entendez-vous dans les montagnes . . . (2010), by the contemporary Franco-Algerian author, Maïssa Bey, whose father was murdered by the French military during the Franco-Algerian War. It explores Bey’s deliberate transgression of conventional generic categories in her ‘staged’ construction of a dialogic exchange in which an authorial doppelgänger confronts her father’s killer. This segueing o…
Working through maternal ambivalence
This article examines Leïla Slimani’s 2016 international bestseller Chanson douce through the prism of the work’s portrayal of maternal ambivalence. Such ambivalence is analyzed in relation to the two working mothers represented in the text, Myriam and the nanny Louise, and contextualized within socio-historical, literary and psychoanalytical parameters. The article draws on a wide range of theoretical and ‘applied’ readings of maternal ambivalen…
Miroir, mouroir
This article looks at Simone de Beauvoir’s pioneering text, La Vieillesse, the most significant female-authored text on ageing published in France in the twentieth century. It examines in particular the text’s quasi-occlusion of a female-centred perspective on the role played by the body and sexual expression in women’s experience of ageing. Often viewed as a(n older) sister text to the feminist treatise Le Deuxième Sexe, La Vieillesse’s relative…
Thoughts on Place
in the author's home at Cergy-Pontoise. 1 Our intention was to use an overarching theme -that of place -as a guide or fil rouge allowing us to garner Ernaux's current thoughts and feelings on a range of subjects that have played a pivotal role throughout her writings and her life.In a three-way conversation that lasted throughout the afternoon, we explored the significant places and environments that recur in Ernaux's writings, from the café-épic…
Lucille Cairns , Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women's Writing
Art (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · North African History and Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)