Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature (eBook)
XXIII, 169 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-40850-7 (ISBN)
The essays in this volume provide an overview and critical account of prevalent trends and theoretical arguments informing current investigations into literary treatments of motherhood and aging. They explore how two key stages in women's lives-maternity and old age-are narrated and defined in fictions and autobiographical writings by contemporary French and francophone women. Through close readings of Maryse Condé, Hélène Cixous, Zahia Rahmani, Linda Lê, Pierrette Fleutieux, and Michèle Sarde, among others, these essays examine related topics such as dispossession, female friendship, and women's relationships with their mothers. By adopting a broad, synthetic approach to these two distinct and defining stages in women's lives, this volume elucidates how these significant transitional moments set the stage for women's evolving definitions (and interrogations) of their identities and roles.
Florence Ramond Jurney is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Gettysburg College, USA. She has published two critical monographs: Voix/es libres: Maternité et identité féminine dans la littérature antillaise (2006) and Representations of the Island in Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Women Redefine their Homelands (2009). She also coordinated a special issue of Nouvelles études francophones on Gisèle Pineau's work (2012).
Karen McPherson is Professor of French at the University of Oregon, USA. She is the author of two critical monographs: Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories (1994) and Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing (2006). She is also a poet and literary translator.
Florence Ramond Jurney is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Gettysburg College, USA. She has published two critical monographs: Voix/es libres: Maternité et identité féminine dans la littérature antillaise (2006) and Representations of the Island in Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Women Redefine their Homelands (2009). She also coordinated a special issue of Nouvelles études francophones on Gisèle Pineau’s work (2012). Karen McPherson is Professor of French at the University of Oregon, USA. She is the author of two critical monographs: Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories (1994) and Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing (2006). She is also a poet and literary translator.
CONTENTS
Preface: Where the Lines Cross
Karen McPherson and Florence Ramond Jurney
I. Defining the Mother
Aban-donner: The Maternal in Le jour où je n’étais pas là
Laurie Corbin
The Accidental Author: Motherhood, Woundability, and Writing in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards
Nicole Simek
Childless Mothers: Personal Perspectives from Francophone Women Writers
Alison Rice
“If you don’t have children, you must be…”: Linda Lê’s À l’enfant que je n’aurai pas and Voluntary Non-Motherhood
Julie Rodgers
Linda Lê’s Antigonal Refusal of Motherhood
Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
Free At Last: Coming to Terms with the Mother in the Woman in La noce d’Anna by Nathacha Appanah
Florence Ramond Jurney
II. Defining the Aging Self
La dernière adresse: Possessions, Dispossession, and the Preservation of Memory
Jean Anderson
Redefining the Self: Explorations of Aging in Michèle Sarde’s Constance et la cinquantaine and Nancy Huston’s Dolce agonia
Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx
A Daughter No More: (National) Identity and the Adult Orphan in Loin de mon père by Véronique Tadjo
Amy Baram Reid
Writing the Mother Immortal: Cixous and Dupré
Karen McPherson
Notes on the ContributorsBibliographyIndex
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.10.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | XXIII, 169 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Schlagworte | aging • Coming of Age • Contemporary French and Francophone Literature • gender and identity • Motherhood |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-40850-X / 331940850X |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-40850-7 / 9783319408507 |
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