TRAVELLING IN WOMEN'S HISTORY WITH MICHÈLE ROBERTS'S NOVELS

Travelling in Women's History with Michèle Roberts's Novels: Literatura, Language and Culture is a journey to discover Roberts's work as a feminist writer, novelist and memorist. An overal analysis and detailed overview of Michèle Roberts'snovels first provide the reader with a study of Roberts's rewriting of stories that have beeninspired by historical, mythological and religious women who gain a voice in her fiction. Not only will the content of Roberts's novels be explored but also its connection to form, as this feminist writer has always liked body to language. Second, the book analyses personal and public discoveries in Roberts's memoir, Paper Houses: A Memoir of the '70 and Beyon (2007). The personal, professional and political journeys the writer-protagonist strolls in London will be part of a feminist culture and language that the memorist preservs in her autobiography. Finally, two conversations wiht Michèle Roberts from 2003 and 2010 are presented in a last chapter in order to illustrate Roberts's arguments when writing as a woman.