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Informationen zum Autor Loïc Bourdeau is an assistant professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He holds the College of Liberal Arts/Louisiana Board of Regents Professorship in Francophone Studies. He is the associate editor of Études Francophones. Klappentext Loïc Bourdeau is an assistant professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He holds the College of Liberal Arts/Louisiana Board of Regents Professorship in Francophone Studies. He is the associate editor of Études Francophones. ¿ Zusammenfassung Offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, including Québec, Ontario, New England, and California. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Failing Successfully Loïc Bourdeau 1. The Whore and Her Mother: Exploring Matrophobia in Nelly Arcan’s Putain Pauline Henry-Tierney 2. Horrible Mothers in Mémère’s Kitchen: Queer Identity in New England Franco-America Susan Pinette 3. “I’m Not the Virgin Mary”: Rebellious Motherhood in Grégoire Chabot’s “A Life Lost” Chelsea Ray 4. Permissive Parenting: The Awful American Mother in Nancy Huston’s Lignes de faille Alison Rice 5. Lucie Joubert’s Ironic Rejection of Motherhood in L’envers du landau Natalie Edwards 6. Voicing Shame: From Fiction to Confession in the Work of Marguerite Andersen Lucie Hotte and Ariane Brun del Re 7. The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston’s Bad Girl: Classes de littérature Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx 8. Forgiving the Horrible Mother: Children’s Needs and Women’s Desires in Twenty-First-Century Québécois Film Amy J. Ransom 9. Politics and Motherhood in Xavier Dolan’s J’ai tué ma mère and Mommy Loïc Bourdeau Contributors Index
