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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.
Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: 'Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing'Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis-TourePart I. Familial Frames, Transnational TropesChapter 1: Strangers in Their Own Homes: Displaced Women in Leonora Miano's L'Interieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vientIsabel Hollis-Toure, Queen's University BelfastChapter 2: Migrant Writing in Quebec: Female Mobility in Kim Thuy's RuJeanette den Toonder, University of GroningenChapter 3: Gendering Migrant Mobility in Fatou Diome's NovelsChristopher Hogarth, University of South AustraliaChapter 4: 'Exilees de famille': Travelling Texts by Worldwide Women WritersAlison Rice, University of Notre DamePart II. Rewriting Identities as Displaced SubjectsChapter 5: Travelling in Trouble: Vagabondage in Isabelle Eberhardt's Algerian TraveloguesDunlaith Bird (Universite Paris-Sud)Chapter 6: Reappropriating 'Exile'? Transculturality between Word and Image in Leila Sebbar's Mes Algeries en FranceJane Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford)Chapter 7: Education and Exile in the Writings of Maissa Bey and Malika MokeddemSiobhan McIlvanney (King's College London)Chapter 8: Cross-Atlantic Mobility: The Experience of Two Shores in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'AtlantiqueBoukary Sawadogo (City College of New York / CUNY)Chapter 9: Restarting the Stopped Clock of Time: Rethinking Mobility in Edwidge Danticat's Non-FictionBonnie Thomas (University of Western Australia)Part III. Future Directions in Women's MobilityChapter 10: Mobility, Motility, Gender: Travelling HaitiCharles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)Chapter 11: 'Things Coming From Every Direction': Leslie Kaplan's 'Cubist' ExplorationsAnna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute in Paris)Chapter 12: Ectopic Literature: The Emergence of a New Transnational Literary Space in Europe in the Works of Eva Almassy and Rouja LazarovaMargarita Alfaro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)Afterword: Women on the MoveMildred Mortimer (University of Colorado, Boulder)List of Contributors
