Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature write by Florence Ramond Jurney. This book was released on 2016-10-13. Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Contemporary French Women's Writing
Contemporary French Women's Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary French Women's Writing write by Shirley Ann Jordan. This book was released on 2004. Contemporary French Women's Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1990s the French literary arena was enlivened by the emergence of a new generation of women writers. This book selects six of its most distinctive voices and addresses important questions about the very new in French women's writing. What are young women choosing to write about? What do they tell us about changing perceptions of feminine identities? What does it mean to write (and to read) as women at the start of the new millennium? An introductory chapter explores key issues such as the woman writer in the public imagination and continuity and change within French women's writing since the 1970s. It also highlights thematic threads which recur across the work of the authors studied: history and time, wandering and exile, self and other, the body and sexuality and writing and telling. The remaining chapters propose productive approaches to the fictional worlds of Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Marie Ndiaye, Agnès Desarthe, Lorette Nobécourt and Amélie Nothomb through close readings of their most challenging, popular or telling texts. They focus on perennial preoccupations in women's writing which are given new treatment by these writers and discuss important developments such as uses of the pornographic, myth and fairy tale and parody and irony in new women's writing.
Rethinking the French Classroom
Rethinking the French Classroom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking the French Classroom write by E. Nicole Meyer. This book was released on 2018-12-13. Rethinking the French Classroom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies, opening the canon to not only new approaches to gender but to genre, expanding interdisciplinary studies and aiding scholars to rethink the teaching of literature, each chapter provides concrete strategies useful to a wide variety of classrooms and institutional contexts. Essays address how to bring French Studies and women’s and gender studies into the twenty-first century through intersections of autobiography, gender issues and technology; ways to introduce beginning and intermediate students to the rich diversity of women writing in French; strategies for teaching postcolonial writing and literary theory; and interdisciplinary approaches to expand our student audiences in the United States, Canada, or abroad. In short, revisiting how we teach, why we teach, and what we teach through the prism of women’s texts and lives while raising issues that affect cisgender women of the Hexagon, queer and other-gendered women, immigrants and residents of the postcolony attracts more openly diverse students. Whether new to the profession or seasoned educators, faculty will find new ideas to invigorate and diversify their pedagogical approaches.
Francophone Women
Francophone Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Francophone Women write by Cybelle McFadden Wilkens. This book was released on 2010. Francophone Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground the female body and who write across geographical borders, as part of a global literary movement that has the French language as its common denominator. This edited collection exposes how female authors portray the tensions that exist between visibility and invisibility, public and private, presence and absence, and excess and restraint when it is linked to femininity and the female body." --Book Jacket.
Taking Up Space
Taking Up Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Up Space write by Siham Bouamer. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Taking Up Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
