Writing from the Hearth Public, Domestic, and

Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa Aoua KZita, Mariama B, Calixthe Beyala, and Aminata Sow Fall, and the Caribbean Marie Chauvet, Simon Schwarz-Bart, Maryse CondZ, 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.

Mildred Mortimer is professor of French, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: Space, Place, and Gender	p. 1
Women and Public Space	p. 35
Aoua Keita, Femme d'Afrique, la vie d'Aoua Keita racontee par elle-meme
Maryse Conde, Moi Tituba Sorciere...Noire de Salem
The Nurturing Hearth	p. 71
Mariama Ba, Une si longue lettre
Simone Schwarz-Bart, Pluie et vent sur Telumee-Miracle
The Cold Hearth	p. 117
Calixthe Beyala, C'est le soleil qui m'a brulee and La Petite Fille du reverbere
Marie Chauvet, Amour
Mobile Homes	p. 151
Aminata Sow Fall, Douceurs du bercail
Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory: Rewriting Home
Conclusion	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 203
About the Author	p. 207
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Writing from the Hearth Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean

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