Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273817311X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 273817311X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds
Author: Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Leftovers
Author: Ruth CruickshankPublisher: Contemporary French and Franco
ISBN: 1789620678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The intrinsic ambivalence of eating and drinking often goes unrecognised. In Leftovers, Cruickshank's new theoretical approach reveals how representations of food, drink and their consumption proliferate with overlooked figurative, psychological, ideological and historical interpretative potential. Case studies of novels by Robbe-Grillet, Ernaux, Darrieussecq and Houellebecq demonstrate the transferrable potential of re-thinking eating and drinking.
Women and the City in French Literature and Culture
Author: Siobhán McIlvanneyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Interdisciplinarity: this book covers a range of media and genres from cinema to journalism to novels and a range of disciplines from feminism, film studies, Francophone studies, history, etc., which allows readers to access a particularly extensive range of disciplines within one volume and to make informed comparisons. Transhistoricism: the chronological range of essays included in this journal from the medieval period through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the present demonstrates that women have always managed to access their own territory within the masculinised urban environment and this encourages readers to rethink previous gendered assumptions about women and the city. Feminism: the essays here form part of the wider movement in academic research to redress the gendered imbalance of perspectives on a range of subjects: here allowing us to look anew at French and Francophone culture and history as part of this feminist rewriting.
Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature
Author: Florence Ramond JurneyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331940850X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The essays in this volume provide an overview and critical account of prevalent trends and theoretical arguments informing current investigations into literary treatments of motherhood and aging. They explore how two key stages in women’s lives—maternity and old age—are narrated and defined in fictions and autobiographical writings by contemporary French and francophone women. Through close readings of Maryse Condé, Hélène Cixous, Zahia Rahmani, Linda Lê, Pierrette Fleutieux, and Michèle Sarde, among others, these essays examine related topics such as dispossession, female friendship, and women’s relationships with their mothers. By adopting a broad, synthetic approach to these two distinct and defining stages in women’s lives, this volume elucidates how these significant transitional moments set the stage for women’s evolving definitions (and interrogations) of their identities and roles.
Solitaires, Solidaires
Author: Elise Hugueny-LégerPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881929
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 265
Book Description
Solitaires, Solidaires stems from the 2013 Women in French conference, which celebrated twenty-five years since the creation of the network of the same name, and brought together the Women in French UK and Women in French in Scotland meetings, which had, until then, been running en solitaire on each side of the border. It therefore seemed opportune to reflect on the theme of female solidarity, its various shapes and constructions, and its meaning. Studies included in this bilingual volume focus on the representation of female solidarity and solitude in French and Francophone society, literature, journalism and history, covering texts ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries. The various contributions explore how the construction of female solidarities and identities has depended not only on networks, dialogues and correspondences, but also (and often simultaneously) on isolation, confrontations and rivalry between women, and on unconventional representations of femininity and motherhood.
The Compleat French-master
Author: Abel BoyerThe Compleat French-master : for Ladies and Gentlemen
Author: Abel BoyerThe Complete French Master for Ladies and Gentlemen: ...
Author: Abel BoyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Hommages à Carl Deroux
Author: Pol DefossePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : fr
Pages : 662
Book Description