| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
After the empire: the Francophone world and postcolonial France |
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After the empire.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Carving literary spaces: Feminine voices in a transcultural world -- Mothers and daughters: Performing family roles in transcultural contexts -- Place and space: Nurturing creative friction -- Death: An emotional exile |
| Summary |
Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their daughters, including isolation, domestic violence, and single parenthood, often serve to inspire introspection and creative action. In effect, their painful, frustrating existence provides the opportunity--the space of creation--necessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literature--rural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, and spaces of otherness--the monograph uncovers the complexities of mothering and "daughtering" in contemporary Francophone contexts. Through discussion of these spaces, the book attests to a specifically "feminine" transculturality. This vision of diversity acknowledges both the heartening and tragic aspects of life in dynamic, multicultural communities, revealing creative synergies between the literatures of different Francophone diasporas and inviting the reader to reconsider the mother-daughter relationship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
French literature -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism
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Women in literature.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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French literature
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Mothers and daughters in literature
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Women in literature
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French-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017000859 |
| ISBN |
9781498539371 |
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1498539378 |
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