Francophone women coming of age : memoirs of childhood and adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean / edited by Debra Popkin.

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Ch. 1. Multiple Identities as Adolescent Coping Mechanism in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides and Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia / Beth Gale -- ch. 2. An Absent Presence: Adolescence and the Inadequate Female Role Model in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Le Quimboiseur L'avait dit ... As the Sorcer Said ... / Leah Tolber Lyons -- ch. 3. Growing up with Julia: Gisèle Pineau and her Grandmother, a Caribbean Girl's Journey to Self-Discovery / Debra Popkin -- ch. 4. La terre ne ment pas: Aminata Sow Fall's Douceurs du bercail as Bildungsroman / Natalie Edwards -- ch. 5. Temale Portraits of Childhood and Adolescence in Selected Works of Gabrielle Roy / Myrna Delson-Karan -- ch. 6. Salvation through Writing in Marie-Claire Blais' Manuscrits de Pauline Archange / S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey -- ch. 7. Female Adolescence in Quebec's Post-Quiet Revolution novels: Gabrielle Gourdeay's L'écho du silence, Monique Proulx's Le sexe des étoiles, and Marie Laberge's Annabelle / Edith B. Vandervoort.

This book began as a panel of University professors on the theme of Francophone Women, Coming of Age, Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence, presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, 2006. The essays center on the plight of growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Issues of culture, tradition, religion (Catholic and Muslim), parental conflicts and sibling rivalry are addressed in the works of authors from France, Quebec, Africa and the ...

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