Narratives of mothering in contemporary French women’s writing
Gill Rye
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‘I couldn’t help the tears that stung my eyes at that moment. I wasn’t proud of them either, any more than I was of the smack that then landed on the spiky top of his head. The fries went flying.
“You always spoil things!” I shouted.’
‘I wanted to go over to him, put my hand on his arm. I thought of those mothers whose children hit them, making people mutter: “Serves them right. You spoil children like that, you turn them into monsters.”
“If you don’t spoil them,” another voice whispered, “you turn them into cripples.”’ (Brisac 1999: 12)
Narratives of mothering in contemporary French women’s writing
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Salvayre, Lydie. The Company of Ghosts. Translated by Christopher Woodall. Champaign IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.
Narratives of Mothering: Women’s Writing in Contemporary France (Newark DE: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming 2009), by Gill Rye
Part One: Introduction
1. Narratives of Mothering
2. Mothering in Context
Part Two: Mothering: Loss, Trauma, Separation
3. Narratives of Death: Mothering and Losing a Child
4. Narratives of Birth: Voicing Trauma
5. Narratives of Separation: Mothering Daughters
Part Three: New Stories of Mothering
6. Narratives of Mothering Alone: Mothering and Ambivalence
7. Narratives of Lesbian Mothering: Planning for a Child
8. Narratives of Mothering without Guilt