Postcolonial Subjects
Francophone Women Writers
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-8166-2628-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume highlights the work of contemporary women writing in French whose cultural links, ethnic identities, and historical roots lie outside France. The writings of these women emanate from the cultures of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Quebec and other French-speaking regions of Canada. By writing in French, the writers discussed in "Postcolonial subjects" both acknowledge and write against the cultural heritage of France. In doing so, they participate in the subversion of European literary traditions and take part in various forms of cultural and linguistic blending, generating new artistic currents. Each of these essays articulates contemporary debates about the politics and cultural effects of sexism, homophobia, racism, and essentialism, as well as pointing out connections and points of resistance among such diverse strains as feminism, nationalism, and ethnicity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2628-1 (9780816626281)
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Content
Part 1 Situating the self - history, rememory, story: Antonine Maillet and the construction of acadian identity, Eloise A. Briere; memory, voice, and metaphor in the works of Simone Schwarz-Bart, Kitzie McKinney; Erzulie - a women's history of Haiti?, Joan Dayan; the past our mother - Marie-Claire Blais and the question of women in the Quebec canon, Mary Jean Green; family histories - Marie Laberge and women's theatre in Quebec, Jane Moss; aminata sow fall's "L'ex-pere de la nation - subversive subtexts and the return of the maternal, Mary-Kay Miller. Part II Border crossings: cherchez la Franco-femme, Christiane P. Makward; narrative "je(ux)" in Kamouraska, Anne Hebert and Juletane; by Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi; mothers, rebels, and textual exchanges - women writing in French and Arabic, Miriam Cooke; "nouvelle ecriture" from the Ivory Coast - a reading of Veronique Tadjo's "A vol d'oiseau", Micheline Rice-Maximin; after negation - Africa in two novels by Maryse Conde, Christopher L. Miller; rewriting "America" - violence, postmodernity, and parody in the fiction of Madeleine Monette, Nicole Brossard, and Monique LaRue, Karen Gould; blurring the lines in Vietnamese fiction in French - Kim Lefevre's, "Metisse blanche", Jack A. Yeager. Part III Engendering the postcolonial subject: theorising terror - the discourse of violence in Marie Chauvet's "Amour Colere Folie", Ronnie Scharfman; postscripts - Mariama Ba, epistolarity, menopause, and postcoloniality, Keith L. Walker; the intertext - werewere liking's tool for trans-formation and renewal, Irene Assiba d'Almeida; writing (jumping) off the edge of the world - metafeminism and new women writers of Quebec, Lori Saint Martin; women's space and enabling dialogue in Assia Djebar's "L'Amour, la fantasia", John Erickson; "Logiques metisses" - cultural appropriation and postcolonial representations, Francoise Lionnet.