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Be Not Deceived
Threatened by deadly snakes, stinging scorpions and malaria-infested mosquitoes Suzanne as a nurse treats the sick. Suzanne and her African assistant Esther daily battle hazardous tribal beliefs and detrimental traditions while ministering to thousands of Africans. Esther is faced with the most potential deadly disaster of her life. Suzanne is continually challenged by the unfamiliar customs, menaced by evil spirits and baffled by the unusual African diseases. When this rather homely and overweight American meets a stranger she is suddenly confronted with the possibility of romance, love and even marriage. The plot grips readers through its intriguing twists and turns which all end in the mo...
Maude
Maude is an artist. Bruno looks after her. Or does he sponge off her? Is he her lover or her housekeeper? Is she an artist because he organises her life or does her art defy her fussy inventions? What is he to her? What is she to him? Are they simply insane? Suzanne Jacob's Maude develops two complex characters caught in a kind of prolonged, irresponsible adolescence. This intense novella explores the dynamics of this odd couple, a dynamics that transcends the otherwise pervasive apathy, depression and sense of powerlessness.
Violence and the Female Imagination
In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.
A Beach in Maine
In this lyrical novella, reminiscent of Marguerite Duras, Suzanne Jacob describes the poignant sojourn of twins on a Maine beach. Mourning the death of their mother, they confront their present by juxtaposing it with their past together.
The Loss of the Miraculous
The Loss of the Miraculous is the story of three men and a young woman in an American town by the River Dunbar. It is also the story of a wild and brilliant painter in an ancient Sicilian hill town. All four are looking for the miraculous. The miraculous for the three men is love in all its aspects; for the young woman it is the search of love in the time of the dirty war. The painter in Sicily hovers over them all and retells the story of how he saved the young woman Jeanne from the mysterious killer who kills whenever a comet appears in the sky once every ten years.
Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature
The study of masculinities and gender identity in contemporary literature is relatively new and, with each year of this millennium, gains momentum. Indeed, as the women’s movement becomes forceful in developing nations, the question of tolerance to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transvestites undergoes a similar process. At a time when women refuse to be subjected to war crimes, when they begin entering the workforce and realize the need to support their families independently, and when they refuse to remain in abusive marriages or remain silent in countries, where governments ignore their needs, men and women are questioning the meaning of gender in their culture and often seek alternativ...
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women and the emergence of urban writing. Areas of research that have expanded since the first edition include environmental concerns and questions of sexuality which are freshly explored across several different chapters. A substantial chapter on francophone writing is included. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, noted for her experiments in multiple literary genres, are given full consideration, as is the work of authors who have achieved major recognition, such as Alice Munro, recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Official Congressional Directory 114th Congress, 2015-2016, Convened January 2015
Directory includes directory information for Congress, including officers, committees, and Congressional advisory boards, commissions and other groups, and legislative agencies; for the Executive branch including the Executive office of the president, each Cabinet agency, independent agencies, commissions and boards; for the Judiciary; for the goverment of the District of Columbia; for selected international organizations; for foreign diplomatic Offices in the United States; and for the Congressional press galleries. Includes also a short statistical section and Congressional district maps.
A Book of South & North American Writers
A Book of South & North American Writers,A-Z By CountryPublished on June 10, 2014 in USA
From Menstruation to the Menopause
This book examines the representation of the female fertility cycle in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French women’s writing. It focuses on menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause whilst also incorporating experiences such as miscarriage and abortion. This study frames its analysis of contemporary women’s writing by looking back to the pioneering work of the second-wave feminists. Second-wave feminist texts were the first to break the silence on key aspects of female experience which had thus far been largely overlooked or considered taboo. Second-wave feminist works have been criticised for applying their ‘universal’ theories to all women, regardless of their ethnicity, s...
