Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Series Editor’s Preface ix
5. Introduction: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French 1
6. 1. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism 30
7. 2. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb’s An-Organic Flux of Immanence 62
8. 3. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi’s Writing 92
9. 4. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq’s Literature of Simulation and Dispersal 123
10. 5. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui’s Writing 154
11. Concluding Thoughts 183
12. Works Cited 187
13. Index 208