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Title:

Exiles, travellers and vagabonds : rethinking mobility in Francophone women's writing / edited by Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-Touré.

Publisher:

University of Wales Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

French literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
French literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
Exiles in literature.
Travelers in literature.
Women immigrants in literature.
French literature--Women authors.
Women and literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Averis, Kate, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2010031323
Hollis-Touré, Isabel, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015077435

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing; Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-Touré; Part I. Familial Frames, Transnational Tropes; Chapter 1: Strangers in Their Own Homes: Displaced Women in Léonora Miano's L'Intérieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vient; Isabel Hollis-Touré; Chapter 2: Migrant Writing in Quebec: Female Mobility in Kim Thúy's Ru; Jeanette den Toonder; Chapter 3: Gendering Migrant Mobility in Fatou Diome's Novels; Christopher Hogarth.
Chapter 4: 'Exilées de famille': Travelling Texts by Worldwide Women Writers Alison Rice; Part II. Rewriting Identities as Displaced Subjects; Chapter 5: Travelling in Trouble: Vagabondage in Isabelle Eberhardt's Travel Writing; Dúnlaith Bird; Chapter 6: Reappropriating 'Exile'? Transculturality between Word and Image in Leïla Sebbar's Mes Algéries en France; Jane Hiddleston; Chapter 7: Education and Exile in the Writings of Maïssa Bey and Malika Mokeddem; Siobhán McIlvanney; Chapter 8: Cross-Atlantic Mobility: The Experience of Two Shores in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique.
Boukary SawadogoChapter 9: Restarting the Stopped Clock of Time: Rethinking Mobility in Edwidge Danticat's Non-Fiction; Bonnie Thomas; Part III. Future Directions in Women's Mobility; Chapter 10: Mobility, Motility, Gender: Travelling Haiti; Charles Forsdick; Chapter 11: 'Things Coming From Every Direction': Leslie Kaplan's 'Cubist' Explorations; Anna-Louise Milne; Chapter 12: Ectopic Literature: The Emergence of a New Transnational Literary Space in Europe in the Works of Eva Almassy and Rouja Lazarova; Margarita Alfaro; Afterword: Women on the Move; Mildred Mortimer; Notes.

Series:

French and Francophone studies

ISBN:

1783169281
9781783169283

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944087370
(OCoLC)962254089

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)