The mother in/and French literature
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The mother in/and French literature
（French literature series, v. 27）
Rodopi, 2000
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Description
The essays in this volume investigate maternity and the figure of the mother in French literature from France, Switzerland, Quebec and Africa, from the seventeenth century to the present. Drawing on cultural history, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, as well as more traditional methods, they present maternity as a source of frustration and of joy, mothers as repressed and revered, daughters as wounded and loving, sons as domineering and dependent. Indeed, few things are simple where mothers - and especially where writing about mothers - are concerned.
Table of Contents
Nancy LANE: Introduction. Domna STANTON: From the Maternal Metaphor to Metonymy and History: Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Maternity and the Case of Sevigne. Holly TUCKER: Like Mother, like Daughter: Maternal Cravings and Birthmarks in the Fairy Tales of Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de la Force. Jeanette Marie HECKER: A Foucauldian and Literary Critique of the (Over-)Medicalization of Maternity. Deborah J. HAHN: La mere coquette: Mothers, Widows and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century Comic Theater. Kimberly PHILPOT VAN NOORT: Fictions of Maternity in Andre Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs. Philip G. HADLOCK: The Semiotics of Maternity in Maupassant's Une vie. Eric du PLESSIS: Maternite, infantilisation et seduction dans Le rouge et le noir, Volupte et L'education sentimentale. Aimee BOUTIN: Confessions of a Mamma's Boy: Lamartine's Manuscrit de ma mere. Claire-Lise TONDEUR: Maternite, filiation et conflits relationnels dans l'ecriture romande (Alice Rivaz, Yvette Z'Graggen, Bernadette Richard). Frederique CHEVILLOT: La maladie de la mere: Mere y es-tu? Me mens-tu? Es-tu sourde? Alison FELL: "Il fallait que ma mere devienne histoire?": Embodying the mother in Simone de Beauvoir's Une mort tres douce and Annie Ernaux's Une femme. Daniela DI CECCO: "Moi aussi j'ai eu ton age ...": la relation mere-fille dans le roman pour adolescentes en France et au Quebec. Cecilia BEACH: The Mother(land) in Plays by Maryse Conde. Lenuta GIUKIN: La mere Afri(que)(caine): tradition et continuite d'un discours politique dans le cinema africain francophone. Bonnie BARTHOLD: Fatou Keita's Mother-Rebel: Excision in the Crossfire.
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