Women's lives in contemporary French and francophone literature. (2016)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Women's lives in contemporary French and francophone literature. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Women's lives in contemporary French and francophone literature
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Florence Ramond Jurney, Karen McPherson.
- Editors:
- Jurney, Florence Ramond, 1971-
McPherson, Karen - Contents:
- 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.
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Copyright Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- Subjects:
- 840.99287
French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- France
Motherhood in literature
Aging in literature - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319408507
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319408491
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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