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Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), Ria Banerjee
Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), Ria Banerjee
Publications and Research
This is a biographical overview of the life and principle works of the French author Rachilde, a.k.a. Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), one of the few women writers working in the masculinist field of fin-de-siecle or decadent fiction.
The Mother Figure In Contemporary Women’S Theater, Sanda Golopentia
The Mother Figure In Contemporary Women’S Theater, Sanda Golopentia
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Five French plays written by women playwrights between the years 1976–88 attest to significant changes in the dramatic presentation of the mother figure. The innovations occur at the general thematic level (with plays centered on the mother–daughter initiating encounter at the moment of giving birth/being born, the reversal of the mother–daughter roles later on in life, trial maternity, willful maternal eclipse, etc.) as well as at the level of the characters’ speech, the setting, and so on. While some of the plays (such as Chantal Chawaf’s Chair chaude, Denise Chalem’s A cinquante ans elle découvrait la mer and Loleh …