Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface

Introduction: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

1. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism

2. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb’s An-Organic Flux of Immanence

3. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi’s Writing

4. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq’s Literature of Simulation and Dispersal

5. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui’s Writing

Concluding Thoughts

Works Cited

Index