Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Part I. Defining the Mother

1. Aban-donner: The Maternal in Le jour où je n’étais pas là

Laurie Corbin

2. The Accidental Author: Motherhood, Woundability, and Writing in Maryse Condé’s La vie sans fards

Nicole Simek

3. Childless Mothers: Personal Perspectives from Francophone Women Writers
Alison Rice

4. “If you don’t have children, you must be…”: Linda Lê’s À l’enfant que je n’aurai pas and Voluntary Non-Motherhood
Julie Rodgers

5. Linda Lê’s Antigonal Refusal of Motherhood
Gillian Ni Cheallaigh

6. Free at Last: Coming to Terms with the Mother in the Woman in La noce d’Anna by Nathacha Appanah
Florence Ramond Jurney

Part II. Defining the Aging Self

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La dernière adresse: Possessions, Dispossession and the Preservation of Memory
Jean Anderson

8. Redefining the Self: Explorations of Aging in Michèle Sarde’s Constance et la cinquantaine and Nancy Huston’s Dolce agonia

Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx

9. A Daughter No More: (National) Identity and the Adult Orphan in Loin de mon père by Véronique Tadjo
Amy Baram Reid

10. Writing the Mother Immortal: Cixous and Dupré
Karen McPherson

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