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The role of the mother in Maryse Condé and Nathalie Sarraute's work

Whether commenting on the role of the academic, emotionally removed, diasporic mother in Desirada, or the "surrogate" mother figure of...

The Colonizer and the Colonized, written in 1957 by Tunisian-born author Albert Memmi,is an integral textto the fields of postcolonial and...

When I first read Gisèle Pineau's autobiographical novel, L’Exil selon Julia (Paris: Editions stock, 1996), Ihad just finishedMaryse...

The poems in Senghor’s Ethiopiques (1956, Presence Africaine) are not onlyreflections of a return to African imagery and a time of childhood...

The novel’s protagonist, Veronica Mercier, is a highly-educated Caribbean woman working as a teacher in Paris. Emotionally disturbed and...

In summer 2009, Random House published the English version of Haitian author Marie Chauvet’s 1968 masterpiece, Amour, Colère et Folie....

Firmly inscribed in a matrilineal (knowledge passed down through generations of women) context, Pluie et vent deals with the pain, struggle, and...

Françoise Ega’s Lettres à une noire, written in 1978, reads like a realist, epistolary novel (in the style of Mariama Bâ...

Annie Ernaux’s novels are often grouped together with a number of other feminine narratives as identity literature, a genre in which the...