Natalie Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7094-9890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Editors’ Preface
[No abstract]
Vernon Subutex and Julien Sorel
Many critics have drawn parallels between Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex and Balzac’s La Comédie humaine on account of their panoramic representations of society, their representative characters and their portrayal of the urban life of their times. While these parallels are apt, both on the level of form and content, this article seeks to move beyond the rapprochement between Balzac and Despentes to offer a rethinking of the trilogy through …
Pia Petersen, Translingualism and Disruption
This article analyses the work of translingual writer Pia Petersen. It situates Petersen's work within current debates about translingual writing and asks whether a translingual writer should be expected to draw attention to their multilingual background within their work. It argues that Petersen's work is disruptive in both its form and content. In terms of content, Petersen engages in pointed social critique, highlighting the social injustice o…
Boundaries and Borders in Australian Life Writing
Transnationalism has been the subject of much scholarly reflection over the last two decades. In one of the earliest definitions of the term, historian Aihwa Ong suggests:\n\nTrans denotes both moving through space or across lines, as well as changing the nature of something. Besides suggesting new relations between nation-states and capital, transnationality also alludes to the transversal, the transactional, the translational, and the transgres…
Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives
[no abstract]
Contemporary French-Australian Travel Writing
This article focuses on the portrayal of Australia by two female French travel writers at the turn of the twenty-first century. Based upon Charles Forsdick's theory of a set of uncertainties locatable in Francophone travel writing at the fin de siecle, this article analyzes how such uncertainties are played out in an Australian setting. It argues that while these texts ostensibly exoticize Australia in stereotypical manners, they gradually compli…
Resisting Linguistic Rules in French-Australian Writing
Recent scholarship has posited the experience of migration as a source of creative, experimental possibilities that allow writers to contest fixed forms of identity; it has also questioned monolingual, monocultural understandings of national literatures that yoke one language to one nation. Building on such work, this article considers French migrant writing that breaks linguistic rules and challenges the norms of national literatures by analyzin…
Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau
In this essay, the authors compares two works of life writing by two French-language writers of Caribbean origin: Gisèle Pineau and Fabienne Kanor. Both writers represent contemporary border crossings in their work and, importantly, contextualize these border crossings in terms of the history of the Caribbean and the legacy of slavery. Their texts are read through the lens of Michael Sheringham’s notion of the “autobiographical turning point”—an …
Wenz Reinvented
This paper analyses the work of Paul Wenz (1869â 1939). Born in Reims, France, Wenz moved to Australia in the 1890s, settling in New South Wales and establishing himself as a grazier. Beginning in 1900, he published several short stories and novels set in Australia. He wrote nearly all of his texts in the French language. Although he was part of literary circles in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, his writing was little known there and his few w…
The Care (Re)Turn in French and Francophone Studies Introduction
[No abstract]
Autofiction and the Law
This article compares two legal cases in France that involved works of autofiction. Camille Laurens and Christine Angot were both accused of atteinte à la vie privée on the basis of their representation of others in literary works. Laurens was found innocent and Angot guilty. This article compares the texts, the ways in which their authors articulate their identities as contemporary writers, and arguments advanced in their trials. At a time at wh…
Linguistic Rencontres in Kim Thúy’s Mãn
Linguist Ofelia Garcia proposes the term ‘translanguaging’ to refer to a ‘dynamic bilingualism’ that ‘is centred, not on languages as has often been the case, but on the practices of bilinguals that are readily observable in order to make sense of their multilingual worlds’. In this article, I examine Kim Thúy’s practice of translanguaging in her 2013 text Mãn. In this text, Francophone Vietnamese writer Thúy blends French and Vietnamese to creat…
Introduction
This introduces the special issue on mobility across media in various areas of the Francophone world. Articles treat the notion of mobility as understood in film, literature, visual art and advertising and explore how genres as well as national traditions intersect. They explore a range of representations of mobility, such as the mobility between people, between genres, between languages, between artistic forms and between texts across historical…
Mobile objects in Sophie Calle’s Fantômes and Prenez soin de vous
The mobility of people and objects is a central motif in the work of contemporary artist Sophie Calle. In this article, I compare two of Calle’s exhibitions that take a particularly unusual approach to mobility. In Fantômes and Prenez soin de vous, the objects are an email and works of art and their mobility arises from their displacement. In both exhibitions, Calle obliges the spectator to look at other people looking at the artefacts, which I r…
Mobility and Migration in France and the Francophone World
Mobile Women in Virginie Despentes’s Apocalypse Bébé
This article argues that, in a similar way to Baise-moi, the plot of Virginie Despentes’s Apocalypse bébé revolves around a female road trip. The mobility of the women on the road trip is read through the lens of Julia Kristeva’s theory of foreignness in Etrangers à nousmêmes. Particular attention is paid to the development of the main character, for whom the road trip is the catalyst for her to recognise the otherness within herself and thus to …
En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire‘
In the Asia-Pacific region, literature is plurilingual. Even Australian literature is not necessarily written in English. There are several contemporary Australian authors who write in languages other than English and many who write in various Englishes. This article examines one such example by analysing the life writing of Catherine Rey. It focuses upon the self-reinvention that this French author performed by migrating to Australia in mid-life…
Fishermen and Little Fish
In this article, we argue that Maxine Beneba Clarke’s tale ‘The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa,’ in Foreign Soil (2014), is a provocative representation of migration in contemporary Australia. At a time in which the world is facing its largest migration since the Second World War and in which Australian border policy is making headlines around the world, Clarke’s tale is a powerful intervention in discourses of contemporary Australian identity and …
Autobiography in the Language Classroom
This article examines the ways that autobiography can be used across language curricula. It begins by presenting ways that autobiography can be manipulated in a beginning language course to further students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. It then presents an upper-level course in autobiography, detailing the course content, philosophy, and assessment materials
The Bilingual Cockatoo
How do the stories of individuals who are persecuted, vilified or denigrated gain legitimacy? How do stories function as a means of forging identity within marginalised communities? How do texts of
Obliged to Sympathise
How can one sympathise with a murderer of children? And furthermore, how can one sympathise with a mother who has murdered her own child? Infanticide is considered to be a particularly heinous crime, possibly because it confronts so many taboos. It functions as a specific threat to symbolic and social orders in which mother operates; by biological prescription, women are givers of live, not takers of it. Such a confronts notion that women desire,…
Deliberately Barren? The Rejection of Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Life Writing
This article compares the representation of voluntary childlessness in two recent literary texts: Linda Lê's A l'enfant que je n'aurai pas (2011) and Jane Sautière's Nullipare (2008). It situates these texts within a socio-historic context in which, according to many commentators, discourses of motherhood are highly regulated. The article first discusses stereotypes of voluntarily childless women highlighted by sociological research. It proceeds …
Feminist Manifesto or Hardcore Porn? Virginie Despentes's Transgression
From Minority to Mainstream
Since its launch in 1982, Channel 4 has operated under a remit that demands that it serves the "tastes and interests not generally catered for" by other UK broadcasters.1 Owing to a professed "commitment to diversity," C4 has ostensibly sought, in the decades since its inception, to make provision in its programming for under-represented groups, including ethnic and sexual minorities.2 The requirements of queer audiences have been, as a result, b…
Commentary and criticism
The Care (Re)Turn in French and Francophone Studies Introduction
[No abstract]
Wenz Reinvented
This paper analyses the work of Paul Wenz (1869â 1939). Born in Reims, France, Wenz moved to Australia in the 1890s, settling in New South Wales and establishing himself as a grazier. Beginning in 1900, he published several short stories and novels set in Australia. He wrote nearly all of his texts in the French language. Although he was part of literary circles in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, his writing was little known there and his few w…
Autofiction and the Law
This article compares two legal cases in France that involved works of autofiction. Camille Laurens and Christine Angot were both accused of atteinte à la vie privée on the basis of their representation of others in literary works. Laurens was found innocent and Angot guilty. This article compares the texts, the ways in which their authors articulate their identities as contemporary writers, and arguments advanced in their trials. At a time at wh…
Mobility and Migration in France and the Francophone World
The Bilingual Cockatoo
How do the stories of individuals who are persecuted, vilified or denigrated gain legitimacy? How do stories function as a means of forging identity within marginalised communities? How do texts of
Feminist Manifesto or Hardcore Porn? Virginie Despentes's Transgression
Commentary and criticism
From Minority to Mainstream
Since its launch in 1982, Channel 4 has operated under a remit that demands that it serves the "tastes and interests not generally catered for" by other UK broadcasters.1 Owing to a professed "commitment to diversity," C4 has ostensibly sought, in the decades since its inception, to make provision in its programming for under-represented groups, including ethnic and sexual minorities.2 The requirements of queer audiences have been, as a result, b…
Commentary and criticism
Feminist Manifesto or Hardcore Porn? Virginie Despentes's Transgression
The Bilingual Cockatoo
How do the stories of individuals who are persecuted, vilified or denigrated gain legitimacy? How do stories function as a means of forging identity within marginalised communities? How do texts of
Obliged to Sympathise
How can one sympathise with a murderer of children? And furthermore, how can one sympathise with a mother who has murdered her own child? Infanticide is considered to be a particularly heinous crime, possibly because it confronts so many taboos. It functions as a specific threat to symbolic and social orders in which mother operates; by biological prescription, women are givers of live, not takers of it. Such a confronts notion that women desire,…
Deliberately Barren? The Rejection of Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Life Writing
This article compares the representation of voluntary childlessness in two recent literary texts: Linda Lê's A l'enfant que je n'aurai pas (2011) and Jane Sautière's Nullipare (2008). It situates these texts within a socio-historic context in which, according to many commentators, discourses of motherhood are highly regulated. The article first discusses stereotypes of voluntarily childless women highlighted by sociological research. It proceeds …
Fishermen and Little Fish
In this article, we argue that Maxine Beneba Clarke’s tale ‘The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa,’ in Foreign Soil (2014), is a provocative representation of migration in contemporary Australia. At a time in which the world is facing its largest migration since the Second World War and in which Australian border policy is making headlines around the world, Clarke’s tale is a powerful intervention in discourses of contemporary Australian identity and …
Autobiography in the Language Classroom
This article examines the ways that autobiography can be used across language curricula. It begins by presenting ways that autobiography can be manipulated in a beginning language course to further students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. It then presents an upper-level course in autobiography, detailing the course content, philosophy, and assessment materials
En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire‘
In the Asia-Pacific region, literature is plurilingual. Even Australian literature is not necessarily written in English. There are several contemporary Australian authors who write in languages other than English and many who write in various Englishes. This article examines one such example by analysing the life writing of Catherine Rey. It focuses upon the self-reinvention that this French author performed by migrating to Australia in mid-life…
Autofiction and the Law
This article compares two legal cases in France that involved works of autofiction. Camille Laurens and Christine Angot were both accused of atteinte à la vie privée on the basis of their representation of others in literary works. Laurens was found innocent and Angot guilty. This article compares the texts, the ways in which their authors articulate their identities as contemporary writers, and arguments advanced in their trials. At a time at wh…
Linguistic Rencontres in Kim Thúy’s Mãn
Linguist Ofelia Garcia proposes the term ‘translanguaging’ to refer to a ‘dynamic bilingualism’ that ‘is centred, not on languages as has often been the case, but on the practices of bilinguals that are readily observable in order to make sense of their multilingual worlds’. In this article, I examine Kim Thúy’s practice of translanguaging in her 2013 text Mãn. In this text, Francophone Vietnamese writer Thúy blends French and Vietnamese to creat…
Introduction
This introduces the special issue on mobility across media in various areas of the Francophone world. Articles treat the notion of mobility as understood in film, literature, visual art and advertising and explore how genres as well as national traditions intersect. They explore a range of representations of mobility, such as the mobility between people, between genres, between languages, between artistic forms and between texts across historical…
Mobile objects in Sophie Calle’s Fantômes and Prenez soin de vous
The mobility of people and objects is a central motif in the work of contemporary artist Sophie Calle. In this article, I compare two of Calle’s exhibitions that take a particularly unusual approach to mobility. In Fantômes and Prenez soin de vous, the objects are an email and works of art and their mobility arises from their displacement. In both exhibitions, Calle obliges the spectator to look at other people looking at the artefacts, which I r…
Mobility and Migration in France and the Francophone World
Mobile Women in Virginie Despentes’s Apocalypse Bébé
This article argues that, in a similar way to Baise-moi, the plot of Virginie Despentes’s Apocalypse bébé revolves around a female road trip. The mobility of the women on the road trip is read through the lens of Julia Kristeva’s theory of foreignness in Etrangers à nousmêmes. Particular attention is paid to the development of the main character, for whom the road trip is the catalyst for her to recognise the otherness within herself and thus to …
The Care (Re)Turn in French and Francophone Studies Introduction
[No abstract]
Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau
In this essay, the authors compares two works of life writing by two French-language writers of Caribbean origin: Gisèle Pineau and Fabienne Kanor. Both writers represent contemporary border crossings in their work and, importantly, contextualize these border crossings in terms of the history of the Caribbean and the legacy of slavery. Their texts are read through the lens of Michael Sheringham’s notion of the “autobiographical turning point”—an …
Wenz Reinvented
This paper analyses the work of Paul Wenz (1869â 1939). Born in Reims, France, Wenz moved to Australia in the 1890s, settling in New South Wales and establishing himself as a grazier. Beginning in 1900, he published several short stories and novels set in Australia. He wrote nearly all of his texts in the French language. Although he was part of literary circles in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, his writing was little known there and his few w…
Contemporary French-Australian Travel Writing
This article focuses on the portrayal of Australia by two female French travel writers at the turn of the twenty-first century. Based upon Charles Forsdick's theory of a set of uncertainties locatable in Francophone travel writing at the fin de siecle, this article analyzes how such uncertainties are played out in an Australian setting. It argues that while these texts ostensibly exoticize Australia in stereotypical manners, they gradually compli…
Resisting Linguistic Rules in French-Australian Writing
Recent scholarship has posited the experience of migration as a source of creative, experimental possibilities that allow writers to contest fixed forms of identity; it has also questioned monolingual, monocultural understandings of national literatures that yoke one language to one nation. Building on such work, this article considers French migrant writing that breaks linguistic rules and challenges the norms of national literatures by analyzin…
Pia Petersen, Translingualism and Disruption
This article analyses the work of translingual writer Pia Petersen. It situates Petersen's work within current debates about translingual writing and asks whether a translingual writer should be expected to draw attention to their multilingual background within their work. It argues that Petersen's work is disruptive in both its form and content. In terms of content, Petersen engages in pointed social critique, highlighting the social injustice o…
Boundaries and Borders in Australian Life Writing
Transnationalism has been the subject of much scholarly reflection over the last two decades. In one of the earliest definitions of the term, historian Aihwa Ong suggests:\n\nTrans denotes both moving through space or across lines, as well as changing the nature of something. Besides suggesting new relations between nation-states and capital, transnationality also alludes to the transversal, the transactional, the translational, and the transgres…
Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives
[no abstract]
Editors’ Preface
[No abstract]
Vernon Subutex and Julien Sorel
Many critics have drawn parallels between Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex and Balzac’s La Comédie humaine on account of their panoramic representations of society, their representative characters and their portrayal of the urban life of their times. While these parallels are apt, both on the level of form and content, this article seeks to move beyond the rapprochement between Balzac and Despentes to offer a rethinking of the trilogy through …
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