Marie Cardinal

Contents: Emma Webb: Introduction - Phil Powrie: The Father with the Movie Camera: Cet été-là, Mouchette and the 'force utérine de l'oeil' - Owen Heathcote: The Personal and the Political: Algeria, Violence, Gender and Writing in Marie Cardinal, Hélène Cixous and Assia Djebar - Emma Webb: Writing Fragments: Dialogic Utterances in Comme si de rien n'était - Patricia De Méo: Dégager les fils de son histoire: les fonctions narratives et thématiques de la broderie dans Le Passé empiété - Kathryn Robson: The Hysterical Body in La Souricière and Les Mots pour le dire - María José Palma Borrego: Le 'récit de cure féminin' comme 'débordement' du canon autobiographique - Alison Rice: La Terre Maternelle: Algeria and the mother in the work of three women writers from Algeria, Marie Cardinal, Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar - Annik Houel: Mère morte pour une fille vivante - Nancy Lane: Mother/Land: Cardinal, Beauvoir and the Body - Walter Wagner: Les Mots pour le dire ou la dialectique de l'aveu - Sarah Hartshorn: The Importance of the Heterosexual Couple and the Father-Daughter Relationship in the Work of Marie Cardinal - Elaine Martin: From Marie Cardinal and Verena Stefan to Banana Yoshimoto: Feminism and the Best-Seller - Colette Trout: Marie Cardinal's Legacy: Quels mots pour la dire?

The Editor: Emma Webb has worked as a Lecturer in French at the Universities of North London and Sheffield. She published a doctoral thesis on the relationship between critical reception and autobiographical identity in the works of Marie Cardinal and Annie Leclerc. She has published several articles on the life-writing of Cardinal and Leclerc.