Contents -- Introduction: Women Writing beyond the Hexagon -- Part I. Situating the Self: History, Rememory, Story -- One. Antonine Maillet and the Construction of Acadian Identity -- Two. Memory, Voice, and Metaphor in the Works of Simone Schwarz-Bart -- Three. Erzulie: A Women's History of Haiti? -- Four. The Past Our Mother: Marie-Claire Blais and the Question of Women in the Quebec Canon -- Five. Family Histories: Marie Laberge and Women's Theater in Quebec -- Six. Aminata Sow Fall's L'Ex-père de la nation: Subversive Subtexts and the Return of the Maternal -- Part II. Border Crossings -- Seven. Cherchez la Franco-femme -- Eight. Narrative "je(ux)" in Kamouraska by Anne Hébert and Juletane by Myriam Warner-Vieyra -- Nine. Mothers, Rebels, and Textual Exchanges: Women Writing in French and Arabic -- Ten. "Nouvelle écriture" from the Ivory Coast: A Reading of Véronique Tadjo's A vol d'oiseau -- Eleven. After Negation: Africa in Two Novels by Maryse Condé -- Twelve. Rewriting "America": Violence, Postmodernity, and Parody in the Fiction of Madeleine Monette, Nicole Brossard, and Monique LaRue -- Thirteen. Blurring the Lines in Vietnamese Fiction in French: Kim Lefèvre's Métisse blanche -- Part III. Engendering the Postcolonial Subject -- Fourteen. Theorizing Terror: The Discourse of Violence in Marie Chauvet's Amour Colére Folie -- Fifteen. Postscripts: Mariama Bâ, Epistolarity, Menopause, and Postcoloniality -- Sixteen. The Intertext: Werewere Liking's Tool for Transformation and Renewal -- Seventeen. Writing (Jumping) Off the Edge of the World: Metafeminism and New Women Writers of Quebec -- Eighteen. Women's Space and Enabling Dialogue in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia -- Nineteen. "Logiques métisses": Cultural Appropriation and Postcolonial Representations -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.

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