Référence bibliographique : Kate Averis, Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women’s Writing , Legenda, collection "Studies in Comparative Literature, vol. 31 ", 2014. EAN13 : 9781907975943.
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 provide propitious circumstances for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, and to appropriate new spaces of 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 Lê, 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.
Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Nomadic Consciousness, Nomadic Narratives
Chapter 1
Exile, Identity, Nomadism: Key Terms and Concepts
Chapter 2
Writing (in) Exile: Six Contemporary Women Writers
Part II: Overstepping the Boundaries: Women’s Narratives of Exile
Chapter 3
Vicissitudes of Language: Nancy Huston’s L’Empreinte de l’ange and Cristina Siscar’s La sombra del jardín
Chapter 4
Writing Home: Malika Mokeddem’s L’Interdite and Laura Restrepo’s Dulce compañía
Chapter 5
Alternative Femininities: Linda Lê’s In memoriam and Cristina Peri Rossi’s Solitario de amor
Conclusion