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This volume highlights the work of contemporary women writing in French whose cultural links, ethnic identities, and historical roots lie outside France. Issues discussed include the political and cultural effects of sexism, homophobia, racism and essentialism.

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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).

Postcolonial Subjects Francophone Women Writers

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/05/1996
      ISBN13: 9780816626298, 978-0816626298
      ISBN10: 0816626294

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume highlights the work of contemporary women writing in French whose cultural links, ethnic identities, and historical roots lie outside France. Issues discussed include the political and cultural effects of sexism, homophobia, racism and essentialism.

      Table of Contents
      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).

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