Francophone women coming of age : memoirs of childhood and adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

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The work Francophone women coming of age : memoirs of childhood and adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/conference-publication.

Label

Francophone women coming of age : memoirs of childhood and adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Title remainder

memoirs of childhood and adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Statement of responsibility

edited by Debra Popkin

Contributor

• Northeast Modern Language Association (U.S.), Conference, (2006 :
• Popkin, Debra

Subject

• Adolescence in literature -- Congresses
• Childhood in literature -- Congresses
• French literature -- Women authors | History and criticism -- Congresses
• Girls in literature

Genre

• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

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 Caribbean. Authors whose memoirs and fiction are analyzed in this study span three continents{u2013}{u2013}Europe, North America (Quebec and the Caribbean) and Africa{u2013}{u2013}but they share a common search for identity and self-definition. --

Assigning source

From publisher's website

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography