Chantal Chawaf
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Chantal Chawaf (born 1943) is a French writer.
She was born in Paris, during the World War II. During her childhood, she studied art and literature. She travelled in Europe before living in the Middle East for some years. When she arrived back in France, she started publishing in 1974 at the Editions des Femmes, created by the leading French feminist Antoinette Fouque. Chawaf’s first novel, Retable. la rêverie, started her own style of writing, which later was designed as being part of "Écriture féminine" movement. Books which also belong to this movement are; Cercoeur (1975) and Maternité (1979).
In her books, Chawaf explores the theme of a mother-daughter relationship and attempts to realise the potential of words to free the female unconscious, to dissintellectualize her body and give voice to an inner experience, rarely described.
She's the author of many novels, and also some plays and essays. Chawaf was also associated with auto-fiction movement with later books as Le Manteau Noir (1998)
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[edit] Bibliography
- Retable. La rêverie, 1974, Editions des femmes
- Cercœur, 1975, Mercure de France
- Chair chaude (théâtre), 1976, Mercure de France
- Blé de semence, 1976, Mercure de France
- Le Soleil et la Terre, 1977, Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert
- Rougeâtre, 1978, Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert
- Maternité, 1979, Editions Stock
- Landes, 1980, Editions Stock
- Crépusculaires, 1981, Editions Ramsay
- Les Surfaces de l'orage, 1982, Editions Ramsay
- La Vallée incarnate, 1984, Editions Flammarion
- Elwina, le roman fée, 1985, Editions Flammarion
- Fées de toujours (with Jinane Chawaf), 1987, Editions Plon
- L'intérieur des heures, 1987, Editions des femmes
- Rédemption, 1988, Editions Flammarion
- L'éclaircie, 1990, Editions Flammarion
- Vers la lumière, 1994, Editions des femmes
- Le Manteau noir, 1998, Editions Flammarion
- Issa, 1999, Editions Flammarion
- Under the pseudonym Marie de la Montluel : Mélusine des détritus, 2002, Editions du Rocher
- L'Ombre, 2004, Editions du Rocher
- La Sanction, 2004, Editions des Femmes
- Sable noir, 2005, Editions du Rocher
- Infra- monde, 2005, Editions des Femmes
[edit] Non fictional writings
- L'Erotique des mots, with Régine Deforges, 2004, Editions du Rocher
[edit] Further reading
- Marianne Bosshard, Chantal Chawaf (Rodopi, 1999)
- Rodgers, Catherine,Gender in Modern France: Society in Transition - edited by Malcolm Cook, Grace Davie (Routledge, 1999)
- Monique Saigal, Ecriture: Lien De Mere a Fille Chez Jeanne Hyvrard, Chantal Chawaf Et Annie Ernaux, (Rodopi, 2000)
- Robson, Kathryn,"The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf's melancholic Autofiction" in "Women's writing in contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s", directed by Rye, Gill & Worton, Michael; (Manchester University Press, 2002)
- Coward, David, History of French Literature: From Chanson de Geste to Cinema;(Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
