Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing

Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women's Writing
ISBN-10
1351567497
ISBN-13
9781351567497
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2017-07-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Kate Averis

Description

Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may be a propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, appropriating a new freedom in mobility. Through a feminist politics of place, displacement and subjectivity, this comparative study analyses the novels of key contemporary Francophone and Latin American writers Nancy Huston, Linda Le, Malika Mokeddem, Cristina Peri Rossi, Laura Restrepo, and Cristina Siscar to identify a new nomadic subjectivity in the lives and works of transnational women today.

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