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Book SynopsisDrawing 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 opportunitythe space of creationnecessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literaturerural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, and spaces of othernessthe 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 acknowl
Trade ReviewAllison Connolly’s well crafted study is the first comprehensive exploration of literary transculturality as a potential space of resistance in Francophone Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa. It opens new windows and an ingenious framework to rethink and re-frame the debates in Francophone studies in the last two decades. -- Martine Antle, University of Sydney
Spaces of Creation unveils the many facets and challenges of mother-daughter relationships and the power of mother’s voices beyond silence and death in various Francophone regions of the world beyond colonial times and in today’s world. -- Dominique Fisher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
the study provides an excellent springboard from which to reflect upon the questions raised. * Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies *
