Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Life Writing Death -- "Juifemmes" -- "Memoirs of an Indocile Daughter" -- The Story of a Woman's Life in and through Time -- Part II: Death of the Other, Death of the Mother -- The Disease of Monolingualism -- As She Lay Dying -- Childless Children -- Jacques's Complaint -- Part III: Geographies of Life and Death -- Ronsard on Speed -- The Art of Finding -- Part IV: Signing Off: The Individual Lost and Regained -- The Feminine Signature -- Moribondages -- Teaching Mourning and Desire in French Literature -- Bibliography of Elaine Marks -- Works Cited -- Contributors.