Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds

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Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women’s writing, however, poses a rich and unique body of work. This volume examines the texts of Francophone women who have experienced or reflected upon the experience of transnational movement. Due to the particularity of their relationship to home, and the consequent impact of this on their experience of displacement, the study of women's mobility opens up new questions in our understanding of the movement from place to place, and in our broader understanding of colonial and postcolonial worlds. Addressing the proximities and overlaps that exist between the experiences of women exiles, migrants, expatriates and travellers, the collected essays in this book seek to challenge the usefulness, relevance or validity of such terms for conceptualising today’s complex patterns of transnational mobility and the gendered identities produced therein.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• European
• French

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783169313
• Langue: English

Extrait

FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds
 
Series Editors
Hanna Diamond (Cardiff University)
Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University)
Editorial Board
Ronan le Coadic (Université Rennes 2)
Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Didier Francfort (Université Nancy 2)
Sharif Gemie (University of South Wales)
H. R. Kedward (Sussex University)
Margaret Majumdar (University of Portsmouth)
Nicholas Parsons (Cardiff University)
Max Silverman (University of Leeds)
Other titles in the series
David A. Pettersen, Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France (2016)
Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye (eds), Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature (2013)
Fiona Barclay (ed.), France’s Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative (2013)
Jonathan Ervine, Cinema and the Republic: Filming on the margins in contemporary France (2013)
Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts, Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print (2013)
Ceri Morgan, Mindscapes of Montréal: Québec’s urban novel, 1950–2005 (2012)
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds
Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women’s Writing
Edited by
KATE AVERIS AND ISABEL HOLLIS-TOURÉ
© The Contributors, 2016
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Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women’s Writing
Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-Touré
Part I. Familial Frames, Transnational Tropes
Chapter 1: Strangers in Their Own Homes: Displaced Women in Léonora Miano’s L’Intérieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vient
Isabel Hollis-Touré
Chapter 2: Migrant Writing in Quebec: Female Mobility in Kim Thúy’s Ru
Jeanette den Toonder
Chapter 3: Gendering Migrant Mobility in Fatou Diome’s Novels
Christopher Hogarth
Chapter 4: ‘Exilées de famille’: Travelling Texts by Worldwide Women Writers
Alison Rice
Part II. Rewriting Identities as Displaced Subjects
Chapter 5: Travelling in Trouble: Vagabondage in Isabelle Eberhardt’s Travel Writing
Dúnlaith Bird
Chapter 6: Reappropriating ‘Exile’? Transculturality between Word and Image in Leïla Sebbar’s Mes Algéries en France
Jane Hiddleston
Chapter 7: Education and Exile in the Writings of Maïssa Bey and Malika Mokeddem
Siobhán McIlvanney
Chapter 8: Cross-Atlantic Mobility: The Experience of Two Shores in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
Boukary Sawadogo
Chapter 9: Restarting the Stopped Clock of Time: Rethinking Mobility in Edwidge Danticat’s Non-Fiction
Bonnie Thomas
Part III. Future Directions in Women’s Mobility
Chapter 10: Mobility, Motility, Gender: Travelling Haiti
Charles Forsdick
Chapter 11: ‘Things Coming From Every Direction’: Leslie Kaplan’s ‘Cubist’ Explorations
Anna-Louise Milne
Chapter 12: Ectopic Literature: The Emergence of a New Transnational Literary Space in Europe in the Works of Eva Almassy and Rouja Lazarova
Margarita Alfaro
Afterword: Women on the Move
Mildred Mortimer
Notes
Series Editors’ Preface
This series showcases the work of new and established scholars working within the fields of French and francophone studies. It publishes introductory texts aimed at a student readership, as well as research-orientated monographs at the cutting edge of their discipline area. The series aims to highlight shifting patterns of research in French and francophone studies, to re-evaluate traditional representations of French and francophone identities and to encourage the exchange of ideas and perspectives across a wide range of discipline areas. The emphasis throughout the series will be on the ways in which French and francophone communities across the world are evolving into the twenty-first century.
Hanna Diamond and Claire Gorrara
Acknowledgements
The editors of this volume give their sincere thanks to all of the contributors for their unflagging commitment to this book project since its inception. We also wish to acknowledge the valuable input of the anonymous readers of the manuscript, who posed challenging questions and provided fruitful lines of enquiry, pushing the rethinking of mobility in Francophone women’s writing in new directions. We would like to give thanks to colleagues at our respective institutions, including Charlotte Chopin, Catriona MacLeod, Erica Burnham, Claire Miller-Bersoullé and Rebecca Pouget at the University of London Institute in Paris and Fabian Schuppert, Michael Pierse, Federico Pagello, Brenda Morris, John Thompson, Maeve McCusker and Kieran McEvoy at Queen’s University Belfast. Kate Averis would like, in particular, to thank Tato, no stranger to transnational mobility, for providing the time and the space to bring this book to completion. Isabel Hollis-Touré would like to add particular thanks to Moussa, Mélody and Zachary and both the Hollis and Touré families for supporting her in her own mobility. Heartfelt thanks also to Kate, for adding the finishing touches to this volume when Zachary was born.
Notes on contributors
Margarita Alfaro has been a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 1993. She leads the research group ELITE, which deals with the study of the Transnational Literatures and Identities within Europe. Among all her articles and releases it is noteworthy to say that she has participated in the collective volume Passages et Ancrages: Dictionnaire des écritures migrantes en France depuis 1981 (Paris: Éditions Champion, 2012) with entries on Matéï Visniec, Rouja Lazarova, Eva Almassy and Oana Orlea.
Kate Averis is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature and culture. She is the author of Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women’s Writing (Legenda, 2014). Her research in the field of comparative Francophone and Latin American literature focuses on transnational mobilities, identities and cultures; the representation of gender; and feminisms in contemporary women’s writing.
Dúnlaith Bird was awarded her doctorate from Oxford University in 2009, is Maître de conférences at the Université Paris 13. Her monograph, Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women’s Oriental Travelogues 1850–1950 , was published with Oxford University Press in 2012. Her research interests include identity construction, gender, postcolonialism and vagabondage .
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and the Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Theme Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’. His research focuses on exoticism, travel literature, postcolonial literature in French and colonial history. Most recent publications include two co-edited collections for Routledge: Travel Writing: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (2012) and Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice (2013).
Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter College. She has published works on various aspects of francophone literature, post-colonial theory and literary theory, including Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria (2006), Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory (2010), and Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire (2014).
Christopher Hogarth (PhD, Northwestern, 2005) is Lecturer of French at the University of South Australia (Adelaide), where he teaches all levels of French. He has edited several volumes on Francophone writers, and published on many Senegalese novelists and intellectuals such as Ken Bugul, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Fatou Diome. His other academic interests include Italian Studies (especially Italo-African literature) and Comparative Literature.
Isabel Hollis-Touré is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. She has recently published a monograph entitled From North Africa to France: Family Migration in Text and Film (London: IGRS Books, 2015). Her research explores migration between Francophone Africa and France, notably its aesthetic representation and its relationship to practices of memory.
Siobhán McIlvanney is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at King’s College London. She specialises in contemporary French and Franco-Algerian women’s writing and has published on Maïssa Bey, Nina Bouraoui, Linda Lê, Leïla Marouane and Amélie Nothomb. She is author of Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins and co-editor of Quand la folie parle: The Dialectic Effect of Madness in French Literature since the Nineteenth Century , and is also currently working on the origins of the early French women’s press.
Anna-Louise Milne is Director of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of London Institute in Paris where she is currently developing The Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression. Notable publ