Mildred Mortimer: 4 books

Today, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment. In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of...

If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa...

Le féminin dans les lettres francophones est un complexe de métadiscours et de représentations parfois engagées, parfois ambivalentes, mais toutes très parlantes : ces rhétoriques pointent à l’horizon des nouvelles productions littéraires les enjeux d’une partie des littératures francophones...

The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and...