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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Averis, Kate, editor.

Hollis-Touré, Isabel, editor.

Series:

French and francophone studies

French and Francophone studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Women authors.

French literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

French literature--Foreign countries.

Exiles in literature.

Travelers in literature.

Women immigrants in literature.

Women and literature.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2016.

Summary:

Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women's writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have experienced or reflected upon the experience of transnational movement. Due to the particularity of their relationship to home, and the consequent impact of this on their experience of displacement, the study of women's mobility opens up new questions in our understanding of the movement from place to place, and in our broader understanding of colonial and postcolonial worlds. Addressing the proximities and overlaps that exist between the experiences of women exiles, migrants, expatriates and travellers, the collected essays in this book seek to challenge the usefulness, relevance or validity of such terms for conceptualising today's complex patterns of transnational mobility and the gendered identities produced therein. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783169283

1783169281

OCLC:

962254089