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In 'Rewriting rewriting: Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, and Marie Redonnet', Cathy Jellenik offers both a theoretical reflection on the difficult issue of rewriting and a more practical investigation of the specific shapes that gesture assumes in the work of three major French women authors. Among the many interesting points that Ms. Jellenik raises, three seem to me to be most welcome indeed: first, the efforts of these writers to postulate a new kind of language suited to their expressive needs; second, the manner in which they come to terms with the burden of literary tradition, turning it to their own uses; finally, the techniques they deploy in order to put the self on stage, reconfiguring it strategically as their work evolves. This ambitious book is an important statement for contemporary French studies. (Warren Motte, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado)

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The Author: Cathy Jellenik received her Ph.D. in twentieth-century French literature from The University of Colorado, Boulder, where she studied with Professor Warren Motte. She is the author of Redonnet Redoes, published in the Journal of Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, and is currently working on a manuscript addressing minor literature in twentieth-century France. She is Assistant Professor of French at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

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