Titlebook: Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature; Florence Ramond Jurney,Karen McPherson Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applic

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Florence Ramond Jurney,Karen McPhersonProvides a comprehensive overview of critical discourse on the topics of motherhood and aging through the analysis of literary representations of women’s lives.Considers how women’s identities and rol

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Aban-donner: The Maternal in ,’, the mother. In her analysis, Corbin discusses the mother–child relationship as emblematic of how human responsibility to others may be figured by the concepts of abandoning and giving. She notes that this text not only continues Cixous’s work on ., a concept central to her views on femininity since

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The Accidental Author: Motherhood, Woundability, and Writing in Maryse Condé’s ,se Condé’s memoir, .. Focusing on motherhood as source and figure of both injury and creation, Simek explores the implications of locating authorial agency in woundedness. As markers of permeability and separation, motherhood and woundedness accentuate the vulnerability and mutability of the self ye

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Childless Mothers: Personal Perspectives from Francophone Women Writersility of becoming a mother.” In strikingly personal texts, three contemporary writers evoke their imagined offspring. In “.” ., Algerian-born Zahia Rahmani explores what would have been the fate of the child she never had. In .’.’., Linda Lê, French writer of Vietnamese descent, uses the epistolary

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“If you don’t have children, you must be…”: Linda Lê’s ,’,’, and Voluntary Non-Motherhoodnalysis on Linda Lê’s .’.’.. In this chapter, Rodgers examines how the decision to forego motherhood is experienced and negotiated in Lê’s text. What impact might this decision have on a woman’s sense of self within a predominantly pronatalist society that conflates “true” womanhood with motherhood?

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Redefining the Self: Explorations of Aging in Michèle Sarde’s , and Nancy Huston’s ,ddle-aged and elderly characters and that address complex issues related to aging such as physical and mental decline. These novels offer nuanced depictions of the aging female body and juxtapose different types of “decline” and “progress” narratives. Examining the ways in which the female protagoni

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