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Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's »

Authors: ValZrie Orlando, Valzrie Orlando, Valrie Orlando
ISBN-13: 9780739105627, ISBN-10: 0739105620
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: ValZrie Orlando

Book Synopsis

A striking number of hysterical or insane female characters populate Francophone women's writing. To discover why, Orlando reads novels from a variety of cultures, teasing out key elements of Francophone identity struggles.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Writing New H(er)stories for Francophone Women of Africa and the Caribbean	1
1	The Politics of Race and Patriarchy in Suzanne Lacascade's Claire-Solange, ame africaine	37
2	Home Is Where I Eat My Bread: Multiculturality and Becoming Multiple in Leila Hoauri's Zeida de nulle part	51
3	Self-Loathing, Self-Sacrifice: Michele Lacrosil's Cajou and Myriam Warner-Vieyria's Juletane	73
4	Out(in)side the Confinement of Cultures: Marie Chauvet's Amour, Colere, et Folie and Mariama Ba's Un Chant ecarlate	97
5	Rooms and Prisons, Sex and Sin: Places of Sequestration in Nina Bouraoui's La Voyeuse Interdite and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga	125
6	War, Revolution, and Family Matters: Yamina Mechakra's La Grotte eclatee and Hajer Djilani's Et Pourtant le ciel etait bleu	147
7	Feminine Voices and H(er)stories: Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et Vent sur Telumee Miracle and Aminata Sow Fall's Douceurs du bercail	165
	Epilogue: Transgressing Boundaries, Reconstructing Stories	181
	Bibliography	187
	Index	193