Postcolonial Subjects
Francophone Women Writers
Published on 30. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-8166-2629-8 (ISBN)
Description
Explores French-language writing by women outside France.
This groundbreaking 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.
Contributors: Eloise A. BriEre, U of Albany; Miriam Cooke, Duke U; IrEne Assiba d'Almeida, U of Arizona; Joan Dayan, U of Arizona; John D. Erickson, U of Kentucky; FranCoise Lionnet, Northwestern U; Christiane Makward, Pennsylvania State U; Kitzie McKinney, Bentley College; Christopher L. Miller, Yale U; Mary-Kay Miller, Vanderbilt U; Jane Moss, Colby College; Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Stanford U; Lori Saint-Martin, U du QuEbec A MontrEal; Ronnie Scharfman, Purchase College, SUNY.
This groundbreaking 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.
Contributors: Eloise A. BriEre, U of Albany; Miriam Cooke, Duke U; IrEne Assiba d'Almeida, U of Arizona; Joan Dayan, U of Arizona; John D. Erickson, U of Kentucky; FranCoise Lionnet, Northwestern U; Christiane Makward, Pennsylvania State U; Kitzie McKinney, Bentley College; Christopher L. Miller, Yale U; Mary-Kay Miller, Vanderbilt U; Jane Moss, Colby College; Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Stanford U; Lori Saint-Martin, U du QuEbec A MontrEal; Ronnie Scharfman, Purchase College, SUNY.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2629-8 (9780816626298)
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Persons
Mary Jean Green is associate dean of the faculty for the humanities and professor of French at Dartmouth College. Karen Gould is associate dean of the graduate college and professor of French at Bowling Green State University. Micheline Rice-Maximin is assistant professor of French at Swarthmore College. Keith L. Walker is associate professor of French and chair of the Program in African and Afro-American Studies at Dartmouth College. Jack A. Yeager is associate professor of French and women's studies, and director of the Center for International Perspectives at the University of New Hampshire.
Content
Part I 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 theater 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 contents).