Exiles, travellers and vagabonds : rethinking mobility in Francophone women's writing /: rethinking mobility in Francophone women's writing. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-Touré.
• Editors: Averis, Kate; Hollis-Touré, Isabel
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing; Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-Touré; Part I. Familial Frames, Transnational Tropes; Chapter 1: Strangers in Their Own Homes: Displaced Women in Léonora Miano's L'Intérieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vient; Isabel Hollis-Touré; Chapter 2: Migrant Writing in Quebec: Female Mobility in Kim Thúy's Ru; Jeanette den Toonder; Chapter 3: Gendering Migrant Mobility in Fatou Diome's Novels; Christopher Hogarth. Chapter 4: 'Exilées de famille': Travelling Texts by Worldwide Women Writers Alison Rice; Part II. Rewriting Identities as Displaced Subjects; Chapter 5: Travelling in Trouble: Vagabondage in Isabelle Eberhardt's Travel Writing; Dúnlaith Bird; Chapter 6: Reappropriating 'Exile'? Transculturality between Word and Image in Leïla Sebbar's Mes Algéries en France; Jane Hiddleston; Chapter 7: Education and Exile in the Writings of Maïssa Bey and Malika Mokeddem; Siobhán McIlvanney; Chapter 8: Cross-Atlantic Mobility: The Experience of Two Shores in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique. Boukary SawadogoChapter 9: Restarting the Stopped Clock of Time: Rethinking Mobility in Edwidge Danticat's Non-Fiction; Bonnie Thomas; Part III. Future Directions in Women's Mobility; Chapter 10: Mobility, Motility, Gender: Travelling Haiti; Charles Forsdick; Chapter 11: 'Things Coming From Every Direction': Leslie Kaplan's 'Cubist' Explorations; Anna-Louise Milne; Chapter 12: Ectopic Literature: The Emergence of a New Transnational Literary Space in Europe in the Works of Eva Almassy and Rouja Lazarova; Margarita Alfaro; Afterword: Women on the Move; Mildred Mortimer; Notes.
• Publisher Details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 840.99287; French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; French literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism; Exiles in literature; Travelers in literature; Women immigrants in literature; Voyageurs dans la littérature; Immigrantes dans la littérature; Exiles in literature; French literature -- Foreign countries; French literature -- Women authors; Travelers in literature; Women immigrants in literature; Exil; Exilliteratur; Französisch; Frauenliteratur; Migration; Mobilität; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783169306; 1783169303
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