Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9781907975943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 179 str.

Kate Averis

Opis

Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may be a propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, appropriating a new freedom in mobility. Through a feminist politics of place, displacement and subjectivity, this comparative study analyses the novels of key contemporary Francophone and Latin American writers Nancy Huston, Linda LE, Malika Mokeddem, Cristina Peri Rossi, Laura Restrepo, and Cristina Siscar to identify a new nomadic subjectivity in the lives and works of transnational women today.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Nomadic Consciousness, Nomadic Narratives 1. Exile, Identity, Nomadism: Key Terms and Concepts 2. Writing (in) Exile: Six Contemporary Women Writers Part II: Overstepping the Boundaries: Women's Narratives of Exile 3. Vicissitudes of Language: Nancy Huston's L'Empreinte de l'ange and Cristina Siscar's La sombra del jardín 4. Writing Home: Malika Mokeddem's L'Interdite and Laura Restrepo's Dulce compañía 5. Alternative Femininities: Linda Lê's In memoriam and Cristina Peri Rossi's Solitario de amor 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Kate Averis