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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Book 2016o 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 Condé, Hélène Cixous, Zahia Rahmani,

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: Possessions, Dispossession and the Preservation of Memoryw material possessions act as “memory keepers” that become “a means of final communication, a ‘dernière adresse’ of considerable value in binding generations together through their mediated narratives.”

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The Accidental Author: Motherhood, Woundability, and Writing in Maryse Condé’s ,gency in woundedness. As markers of permeability and separation, motherhood and woundedness accentuate the vulnerability and mutability of the self yet also recall and assert the boundary between self and other, a boundary that must be maintained in order to identify violence and demand responsibility.

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Childless Mothers: Personal Perspectives from Francophone Women Writersform to address the child she knows she will never bring into the world. In ., ., Fatou Diome from Senegal shows how the decision not to have children is often not respected in France. Together these three texts provocatively suggest that even if these women writers are childless, they are, nonetheless, mothers.

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