By Florence Ramond Jurney,Karen McPherson
ISBN-10: 3319408496
ISBN-13: 9783319408491
The essays during this quantity offer an summary and demanding account of popular developments and theoretical arguments informing present investigations into literary remedies of motherhood and getting older. They discover how key levels in women’s lives—maternity and previous age—are narrated and outlined in fictions and autobiographical writings through modern French and francophone ladies. via shut readings of Maryse Condé, Hélène Cixous, Zahia Rahmani, Linda Lê, Pierrette Fleutieux, and Michèle Sarde, between others, those essays study comparable subject matters akin to dispossession, woman friendship, and women’s relationships with their moms. by way of adopting a vast, artificial method of those certain and defining phases in women’s lives, this quantity elucidates how those major transitional moments set the level for women’s evolving definitions (and interrogations) in their identities and roles.
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