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Spaces of Creation: Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature
Allison Connolly
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Description for Spaces of Creation: Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature
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Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their daughters, including isolation, domestic violence, and single parenthood, often serve to inspire introspection and creative action. In effect, their painful, frustrating existence provides the opportunity-the space of creation-necessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literature-rural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, ... Read more
Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their daughters, including isolation, domestic violence, and single parenthood, often serve to inspire introspection and creative action. In effect, their painful, frustrating existence provides the opportunity-the space of creation-necessary to weave and transmit stories. Organized around different manifestations of culturally diverse or transcultural spaces depicted in postcolonial literature-rural villages, domestic spaces, city centers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781498539364
SKU
V9781498539364
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About Allison Connolly
Allison Connolly is associate professor of French and humanities at Centre College.
Reviews for Spaces of Creation: Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature
The work's greatest strength is its attentiveness to the role of ageing and death in the emergence of transcultural expression.... The study provides an excellent springboard from which to reflect upon the questions raised.
Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Allison Connolly's well crafted study is the first comprehensive exploration of literary transculturality as a potential space of resistance ... Read more
Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies
Allison Connolly's well crafted study is the first comprehensive exploration of literary transculturality as a potential space of resistance ... Read more