Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing

by Kate Averis (Editor), Isabel Hollis-Touré (Editor)

Overview

Migration, exile, expatriation, estrangement, nomadism, vagabondage, and travel conjure up different notions and perceptions of the mobile subject. How do we understand these terms, and how have women writers highlighted the blurring between such categories? Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds analyzes Francophone literature from across the globe to nuance our understanding of women’s mobility.  Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-Touré explore the distinctions among different types of mobility in a way that complicates our interpretations of different kinds of mobility, especially the implications of those interpretations for women around the world.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783169283
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Publication date:	01/15/2017
Series:	French and Francophone Studies
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Kate Averis is a lecturer in French studies at the University of London Institute in Paris. Isabel Hollis-Touré is a research fellow at Queen’s University Belfast specializing in North African migration to France.
 

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

Notes on contributors xi

Introduction: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing Kate Averis Isabel Hollis-Touré 1

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 17

Chapter 2 Migrant Writing in Quebec: Female Mobility in Kim Thúy's Ru Jeanette den Toonder 33

Chapter 3 Gendering Migrant Mobility in Fatou Diome's Novels Christopher Hogarth 54

Chapter 4 'Exilées de famille": Travelling Texts by Worldwide Women Writers Alison Rice 71

Part II Rewriting Identities as Displaced Subjects

Chapter 5 Travelling in Trouble: Vagabondage in Isabelle Eberhardt's Travel Writing Dúnlaith Bird 93

Chapter 6 Reappropriating 'Exile'? Transculturality between Word and Image in Leila Sebbar's Mes Algéries en France Jane Hiddleston 111

Chapter 7 Education and Exile in the Writings of Maïssa Bey and Malika Mokeddem Siobhán McIlvanney 131

Chapter 8 Cross-Atlantic Mobility: The Experience of Two Shores in Fatou Diome's he Ventre de l'Atlantique Boukary Sawadogo 153

Chapter 9 Restarting the Stopped Clock of Time: Rethinking Mobility in Edwidge Danticat's Non-Fiction Bonnie Thomas 169

Part III Future Directions in Women's Mobility

Chapter 10 Mobility, Motility, Gender: Travelling Haiti Charles Forsdick 191

Chapter 11 'Things Coming From Every Direction': Leslie Kaplan's 'Cubist' Explorations Anna-Louise Milne 212

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 232

Afterword: Women on the Move Mildred Mortimer 249

Index 269

What People are Saying About This

Nicholas Harrison

“This thoughtful volume offers diverse angles on gender, space, and place, from ‘ectopic literature’ to women who become strangers in their own homes. Its distinguished contributors explore the many forms of mobility—imagined, virtual and real, and voluntary and involuntary—that have shaped today’s literary and political worlds.”
 

Editorial Reviews

“This thoughtful volume offers diverse angles on gender, space, and place, from ‘ectopic literature’ to women who become strangers in their own homes. Its distinguished contributors explore the many forms of mobility—imagined, virtual and real, and voluntary and involuntary—that have shaped today’s literary and political worlds.”

Nicholas Harrison