Doing gender : Franco-Canadian women writers of the 1990s / edited by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Roseanna L. Dufault.

Other author Gilbert, Paula Ruth.
Other author Dufault, Roseanna Lewis, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2001.
Description396 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
French-Canadian literature--Québec (Province). --History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--Québec (Province).
Women in literature.

Contents Marie-Josephte becomes Ludivine: the family reformed in Anne Hébert's La cage / Annabelle M. Rea -- Myth and memory in Nicole Brossard's Baroque d'aube and Vertige de l'avant scène / Alice A. Parker -- Writing and/in mourning: the legacy of loss in recent texts by Madeleine Gagnon / Miléna Santoro -- Rewriting women into historical struggles as transformative and transformed grace: Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's L'Été de l'Île de Grac̀e / Maureen F. O'Meara -- Gendered migrations: history, women, class, and urbanity in France Théoret's Laurence / Karen L. Gould -- Passionate postmortems: couples plays by women dramatists / Jane Moss -- It takes two to tango: Pauline Harvey's Un homme est une valse / Karin Egloff -- The future of memory in Louise Dupré's La memoria / Karen McPherson -- The construction and deconstruction of gender in the novels of Monique Proulx / Sandra Beyer -- The other family romance: daughters and fathers in Québec women's fiction of the nineties / Lori Saint-Martin -- The daughter's revenge: father-daughter incest in Gabrielle Gourdeau's L'Écho du silence / Susan Ireland -- The legacy of words: mothers as agents of cultural subterfuge and subversion / Lucie Lequin -- Ying Chen's Les lettres chinoises and epistolary identity / Eileen Sivert -- Feminine references and feminine space in Entre les fleuves by Nadine Ltaif / Peggy Devaux -- France Daigle's postmodern Acadian voice in the context of Franco-Canadian lesbian voices / Janine Ricouart -- Memory, sexuality, and patriarchy: emancipatory strategies in contemporary Franco-Albertan women's writing / Pamela V. Sing -- Giving voice to the body: (pro)creation in the texts of Nancy Huston / Patrice J. Proulx -- Feminist discourse and children's literature in Québec: some theoretical and historical foundations / Lucie Guillemette -- Huguette Bertrand, "internaute" pioneer poet: an introduction to Entre l'ombre et la lumière / Mylène Catel -- Marguerite...or she who sees behind the mirror: a translation of Hélène Rioux's Marguerite...ou celle qui voit derrière le miroir / Julie Rieman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001018967
ISBN0838638864 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ3917.Q3 D65 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold