Women´s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature
Florence Ramond Jurney (Ed.)
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Description for Women´s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature
Hardback. Editor(s): Jurney, Florence Ramond; McPherson, Karen. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 Conde, Helene Cixous, Zahia Rahmani, Linda Le, Pierrette Fleutieux, and Michele 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 ... Read more
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 Conde, Helene Cixous, Zahia Rahmani, Linda Le, Pierrette Fleutieux, and Michele 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
169
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319408491
SKU
V9783319408491
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About Florence Ramond Jurney (Ed.)
Florence Ramond Jurney is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Gettysburg College, USA. She has published two critical monographs: Voix/es libres: Maternite et identite feminine dans la litterature antillaise (2006) and Representations of the Island in Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Women Redefine their Homelands (2009). She also coordinated a special issue of Nouvelles etudes francophones on Gisele Pineau's work ... Read more
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