Women's lives in contemporary French and francophone literature. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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