Women and the City in French Literature and Culture

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Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001);

Quand la folie parle: The Dialectic Effect of Madness in French Literature since the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2014), co-edited with Gillian Ni Cheallaigh and Laura Jackson

Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1759-1848 (forthcoming LUP 2019)

The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idées reçues surrounding women’s ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French and European literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flâneur a quintessentially male phenomenon, or can there exist a true flâneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading – both individually and collectively – in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women’s studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.

Series Editors’ Preface
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction - Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
Part I. Images of the Flâneuse: Mediatic Representations of Women’s Relationship to the City
Chapter 1: A City for Young Ladies: The Parisian Flâneuse of the Journal des Demoiselles - Lucie Roussel Richard
Chapter 2: Unfolding the Domestic Interior: Women, Newspapers and the Nineteenth-Century City - Kathryn Brown
Chapter 3: Agnès Varda in Paris: The Urban Gaze of the Female Film-maker in Three Short Films - Jennifer Wallace
Chapter 4: Imagining on the Outskirts of the City: Duras’s Le Camion and the marcheuse - Sarah Cooper
Part II. From the Periphery to the Centre: Marginalised Re-Inscriptions of the Urban
Chapter 5: Morphologies of Becoming: Dehumanisation and Dandyism in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin - Marina Starik
Chapter 6: Towards a Globalised Banlieue? Resilience through Literature in Three Narratives of the ‘Ultraperiphery’ - Nathalie Ségeral
Chapter 7: Marriage, Pregnancy and the City in Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays - Sonja Stojanovic
Chapter 8: Viewing the Algerian Cityscape in Nina Bouraoui’s La Voyeuse interdite and Leïla Sebbar’s ‘La Jeune Fille au balcon’ - Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
Part III. Gendered Spaces, Gendered Places: The Feminisation of the City Environment
Chapter 9: ‘For Their Trouble and Labour’. Women’s Work Reconsidered in Late Medieval Amiens - Julie Pilorget
Chapter 10: City, War and Politicisation in Journal à quatre mains by Benoîte and Flora Groult - Imogen Long
Chapter 11: C’est l’endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, Gender and Belonging in Nathacha Appanah’s Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi’s Ève de ses décombres - Julia Waters
Chapter 12: Gendered Spaces of Ageing: The Liberations and Limitations of Urban Space in Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston - Kate Averis
Index

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Literary Criticism

European

French

France

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786834331
Langue	English
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tçãÉå ~åÇ íÜÉ `áíó áå cêÉåÅÜ iáíÉê~íìêÉ ~åÇ `ìäíìêÉ Reconfiguring the Feminine in the Urban Environment

Edited by Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh

FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES

Women and the Cîty în French Lîterature and Cuture

Series Editors

Hanna Dîamond (Cardîff Unîversîty) Caîre Gorrara (Cardîff Unîversîty)

Editorial Board

Kate Averîs (Unîversîdad de Antîoquîa) Nataîe Edwards (Unîversîty of Adeaîde) Kate Grîfiths (Cardîff Unîversîty) Sîmon Kemp (Unîversîty of Oxford) Margaret Majumdar (Unîversîty of Portsmouth) Debaratî Sanya (Unîversîty of Caîfornîa, Berkeey) Maxîm Sîverman (Unîversîty of Leeds)

Other titles in the series Jonathan Lewîs,The Agerîan War în French/ Agerîan Wrîtîng: Lîterary Sîtes of Memory Heena Chadderton and Angea Kîmyongür (eds),Engagementîn Twenty-irst-CenturyFrençhandFrançophoneCuture:CounterîngCrîses Kate Averîs and Isabe Hoîs-Touré (eds),Exîes, Traveers and Vagabonds: Rethînkîng Mobîîty în Francophone Women’s Wrîtîng(2016) Davîd A. Pettersen,Amerîcanîsm, Medîa and the Poîtîcs of Cuture în 1930s France (2016) Amaeena Damé and Gî Rye (eds),Women’s Wrîtîng în Twenty-Fîrst-CenturyFrance:LîfeasLîterature(2013) Fîona Barçay (ed.),France’s Coonîa Legacîes: Memory, Identîty and Narratîve(2013) Jonathan Ervîne,Cînema and the Repubîc: Fîmîng on the margîns în contemporary France(2013) Kate Grîfiths and Andrew Watts,Adaptîng Nîneteenth-Century France: Lîterature în Fîm, Theatre, Teevîsîon, Radîo and Prînt(2013) Cerî Morgan,Mîndscapes of Montréa: Québec’s urban nove, 1950–2005(2012)

FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES

Women and the Cîty în French Lîterature and Cuture

Reconigurîng the Femînîne în the Urban Envîronment

Edîted by SIOBHÁN McILVANNEY AND GILLIAN NI CHEALLAIGH

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2019

A rîghts reserved. No part of thîs book may be reproduçed în any materîa form (înçudîng photoçopyîng or storîng ît în any medîum by eeçtronîç means and whether or not transîenty or înçîdentay to some other use of thîs pubîçatîon) wîthout the wrîtten permîssîon of the çopyrîght owner exçept în aççordançe wîth the provîsîons of the Copyrîght, Desîgns and Patents Açt 1988. Appîçatîons for the çopyrîght owner’s wrîtten permîs-sîon to reproduçe any part of thîs pubîçatîon shoud be addressed to The Unîversîty of Waes Press, Unîversîty Regîstry, Kîng Edward VII Avenue, Cardîff CF10 3NS

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ISBN eISBN

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The rîght of the Contrîbutors to be îdentîied as authors of thîs work has been asserted în aççordançe wîth seçtîons 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyrîght, Desîgns and Patents Açt 1988.

Typeset by Mark Hesîngton Ltd, Sçarborough, North Yorkshîre Prînted by CPI Antony Rowe, Meksham

Contents

Serîes Edîtors’ Prefaçe Lîst of Iustratîons Notes on Contrîbutors Introduçtîon Sîobhán McIvanney and Gîîan Nî Cheaaîgh

Part I. Images of the Flâneuse: Mediatic Representations of Women’s Relationship to the City Chapter 1: A Cîty for Young Ladîes: The Parîsîan Fâneuse of theJourna des DemoîseesLucîe Rousse Rîchard

Chapter 2:

Chapter 3:

Chapter 4:

Unfodîng the Domestîç Interîor: Women, Newspapers and the Nîneteenth-Century Cîty Kathryn Brown

Agnès Varda în Parîs: The Urban Gaze of the Femae Fîm-maker în Three Short Fîms Jennîfer Waace

Imagînîng on the Outskîrts of the Cîty:Duras’sLe Camîonand themarcheuseSarah Cooper

Part II. From the Periphery to the Centre: Marginalised Re-inscriptions of the Urban Chapter 5: Morphoogîes of Beçomîng: Dehumanîsatîon and Dandyîsm în Émîe Zoa’sThérèse RaquînMarîna Starîk

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Chapter 6:

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8:

Women and the Cîty

Towards a GobaîsedBanîeue? Resîîençe through Lîterature în Three Narratîves of the ‘Utraperîphery’ Nathaîe Ségera

Marrîage, Pregnançy and the Cîty în Marîe Darrîeusseçq’sLe PaysSonja Stojanovîc

Vîewîng the Agerîan Cîtysçape în Nîna Bouraouî’sLa Voyeuse înterdîteand Lea Sebbar’s ‘La Jeune Fîe au baçon’ Sîobhán McIvanney and Gîîan Nî Cheaaîgh

Part III. Gendered Spaces, Gendered Places: The Feminisation of the City Environment Chapter 9: ‘For Theîr Troube and Labour’: Women’s Work Reçonsîdered în Late Medîeva Amîens Juîe Pîorget

Chapter 10:

Chapter 11:

Chapter 12:

Index

Cîty, War and Poîtîçîsatîon înJourna à quatre maînsby Benoïte and Fora Grout Imogen Long

C’est ’endroît quî nous a faîts aînsî: Paçe, Gender and Beongîng în Nathaçha Appanah’sBue Bay Paaceand Ananda Devî’sÈve de ses décombresJuîa Waters

Gendered Spaçes of Ageîng: The Lîberatîons and Lîmîtatîons of Urban Spaçe în Annîe Ernaux and Nançy Huston Kate Averîs

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Series Editors’ Preface

Thîs serîes showçases the work of new and estabîshed sçhoars workîng wîthîn the ieds of Frençh and françophone studîes. It pubîshes întroduçtory texts aîmed at a student readershîp, as we as researçh-orîentated monographs at the çuttîng edge of theîr dîsçîpîne area. The serîes aîms to hîghîght shîftîng patterns of researçh în Frençh and françophone studîes, to re-evauate tradî-tîona representatîons of Frençh and françophone îdentîtîes and to ençourage the exçhange of îdeas and perspeçtîves açross a wîde range of dîsçîpîne areas. The emphasîs throughout the serîes wî be on the ways în whîçh Frençh and françophone çommunîtîes açross the word are evovîng înto the twenty-irst çentury.

Hanna Dîamond and Caîre Gorrara

List of Illustrations

Figure 2.1: Mary Cassatt,Lydîa Readîng the Mornîng Paper (No. 1) (Woman Readîng), 1878–9, oî on çanvas, 81.28 × 59.69 çm. Josyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. Museum purçhase, Josyn Endowment Fund, 1943.38.

Figure 2.2:James Tîssot,Hîde and Seek, ç. 1877, oî on wood, 73.4 × 53.9 çm. Natîona Gaery of Art, Washîngton, D.C. Chester Dae Fund, 1978.47.1. Image çourtesy of the Natîona Gaery of Art, Washîngton, D.C.

Figure 2.3:Sîmonîdy, Mîçhe Le Fîgaro. Poster (çoour îthograph on paper), before 1903, 120 × 81 çm. Museu Naçîona d’Art de Cataunya, Barçeona, Pandîura Coeçtîon, 000127–C. © Museu Naçîona d’Art de Cataunya, Barçeona 2018. Photo: Caveras\ Mérîda\Sagrîstà.

Figure 2.4:Édouard Vuîard,The Newspaper, ç. 1896–8, oî on çard-board, 32.38 × 53.34 çm. The Phîîps Coeçtîon, Washîngton, D.C., açquîred 1929. Image çourtesy of Brîdgeman Images. Figure 3.1:An edery woman waks up the rue Mouffetard în the raîn on market day în Agnès Varda’sL’Opéra-Mouffe. Figure 3.2:Ceanîng ‘a dame au saç’ on the rue Turbîgo în Agnès Varda’sLes Dîtes carîatîdes. Figure 3.3:‘Gîve the Lîon of Befort a bîg bone to gnaw and turn hîm towards the West’ – Breton’s wîsh îs fuied by Varda în Agnès Varda’sLe Lîon voatî.