Women's Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

CONTENTS

Preface: Where the Lines Cross

Karen McPherson and Florence Ramond Jurney

Aban-donner: The Maternal in Le jour où je n'étais pas là

Laurie Corbin

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

Nicole Simek

Childless Mothers: Personal Perspectives from Francophone Women Writers

Alison Rice

"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

Gillian Ni Cheallaigh

Free At Last: Coming to Terms with the Mother in the Woman in La noce d'Anna by Nathacha Appanah

Florence Ramond Jurney

II.  Defining the Aging Self

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

Jean Anderson

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

Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx

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

Amy Baram Reid

Karen McPherson

Notes on the Contributors

Bibliography

Index