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In “‘Ma voix se dégagea’: Music, Risk, and the Heroine’s Voice in George Sand’s Malgrétout, ” I argue that Sand’s 1870 novel Malgrétout offers a view of the complexity of Sand’s thinking about sound, whether in a child’s holistic and...
La voix est indéniablement pour nos sensibilités modernes à la fois une expression intime de l’individu et une arme de séduction à la frontière du dedans et du dehors, de l’âme et du corps, de la parole et de la musique. Mais le Moyen...
Women in French has a long history of supporting women and/in French. When the organization was created in 1978, its founding mothers stated that its goals included “promot[ing] women’s growth and impact within higher education settings...
Marie-Madeleine Jodin and Olympe de Gouges were among the women who believed that the new state created by the French Revolution would offer equality to men and women. Both of them published political pamphlets arguing in favor of their...
With input from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s thirty-five-year-old essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” to the relatively new field of “animal studies, ” the article looks at Sand’s use of the roar—le rugissement—for three characters, a...
At the peak of his reign, Louis XIV commissioned several of the best writers of the time to chronicle the story of his reign. Much like in previous historical narratives, female characters were rarely featured and often silenced. However...
Coming from distinct cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, Algerian painter Baya Mahieddine (born Fatma Haddad, commonly known as Baya) and Moroccan photographer Lalla Essaydi predominantly feature women in their artwork through their...
Une mère tue ses deux jeunes garçons. Ce pourrait être un fait divers presque ordinaire, si ce n’est qu’il s’agit d’un roman et que la voix maternelle et meurtrière se charge de faire entendre au lecteur l’inconcevable. Au fil des pages, ...
The following article examines the role of sound and silence in the work of the Franco-Algerian author Maïssa Bey, Puisque mon coeur est mort (2010). The text takes the form of an epistolary novel written by a mother, Aïda, to her...
L’oeuvre de fiction comme les essais de Nancy Huston ont ceci de particulier : ils sont marqués par d’abondantes notes de bas de page, des citations, des références intertextuelles et métatextuelles qui accompagnent le texte, le...
In Solibo Magnifique (1988), Patrick Chamoiseau’s ethnographer laments: “Je n'étais plus dans ce marché qu’une sorte de parasite, en béatitude stérile” (44). The explicit comparison of the ethnographer to a parasite evokes the seminal...
Ousmane Sembene’s 1966 La Noire de…, the first full-length feature film by an African director, follows a young Senegalese woman who works for a French couple as a maid. With the exception of answering “Oui, Madame” or “Oui, Monsieur, ”...
Historian, translator, publisher, novelist, and journalist, polemicist and political activist during the French Revolution, Louise de Keralio (1756–1822) challenged prevailing gender roles by her ambitious incursion into areas considered...
Literary tourism draws visitors to sites associated with writers or their works such as the recently restored natal home of Colette in rural Burgundy where she lived from 1873 to 1891. Purchased in 2011 and opened to the public in 2016, ...
Inspired by the phenomenon of “child witches” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Léonora Miano’s second novel, Contours du jour qui vient (2006), reveals the psychological and physical violence children accused of witchcraft experience...
De nombreuses écrivaines haïtiennes ont aussi milité dans des organisations féministes. En tant qu’écrivaines et en tant que militantes, elles ont oeuvré et continuent d’oeuvrer à effacer les silences de l’histoire dans lesquels les...
In her work Framing Silence (1997), Myriam J. A. Chancy posits that Haitian women writers redefine the status quo rather than depend on a unified understanding of Haitian culture to write their narratives. According to Chancy Haitian...
Driven out of France for her conversion to Protestantism, ridiculed by her contemporaries for her scathing criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church as well as the nascent reformed church in Geneva, Marie Dentière emerges as a...
L’article analyse les bruits féminins qui figurent au dernier vers du sonnet « El Desdichado », les « soupirs de la sainte » et les « cris de la fée ». À partir d’une étude de l’intertextualité et des sources du poème, il propose d...
In post-revolutionary French literary circles, women’s voices were marginalized. Romantic cénacles welcomed few women as writers or performers. Meanwhile, female-led salons were dismissed as unserious, trivial, worthless—not because of...
In the preface to Les Belles lettres (1961), Charlotte Delbo argues that l’art épistolaire reclaims significance through contemporary political events. Letterwriting becomes a mode of indignation previously expressed through political...
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