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oapen-20.500.12657-415492020-09-02T00:43:01Z What’s France got to do with it? de Nooy, Juliana France memoir Australia women narrative self-transformation cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Continental Europe::1DDF France bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MB Australasia::1MBF Australia bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BM Memoirs bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a project of self-renovation in which transplantation to another country is incidental, hence the question ‘What’s France got to do with it?’ The book delves into what France represents in the various narratives, its role in the self-transformation, and the reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand among readers and publishers for these stories. It asks why these memoirs have gained such traction among Australian women at the dawn of the twenty-first century and what is at stake in the fascination with France. 2020-09-01T11:40:07Z 2020-09-01T11:40:07Z 2020 book ONIX_20200901_9781760463632_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41549 eng application/pdf n/a 9781760463632.pdf https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/whats-france-got-to-do-with-it ANU Press 10.22459/WF.2020 10.22459/WF.2020 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 open access
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While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, well over 40 have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. Although we might expect a focus on travel, intercultural adjustment and communication in these texts, this is the case only in a minority of accounts. More frequently, France serves as a backdrop to a project of self-renovation in which transplantation to another country is incidental, hence the question ‘What’s France got to do with it?’ The book delves into what France represents in the various narratives, its role in the self-transformation, and the reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand among readers and publishers for these stories. It asks why these memoirs have gained such traction among Australian women at the dawn of the twenty-first century and what is at stake in the fascination with France.
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