Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean

by Mildred P. Mortimer and Mildred Mortimer

Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa: Aoua K ita, Mariama B , Calixthe Beyala, and Aminata Sow Fall, and the Caribbean: Marie Chauvet, Simon Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Cond , and Edwidge Danticat. It explores the hypothesis that the female protagonist moves toward empowerment by appropriating public space and transforming domestic space into alternative space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739119079
• ISBN13: 9780739119075
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"