Part I : Defining the Mother. Aban-donner : the maternal in Le jour où je n'étais pas là
The accidental author : motherhood, woundability, and writing in Maryse Condé's La vie sans fards
Childless mothers : personal perspectives from Francophone women writers
"If you don't have children, you must be..." : Linda Lê's À l'enfant que je n'aurai pas and voluntary non-motherhood
Linda Lê's antigonal refusal of motherhood
Free at last: coming to terms with the mother in the woman in La noce d'Anna by Nathacha Appanah
Part II : Defining the aging self. La dernière adresse : possessions, dispossession and the preservation of memory
Redefining the self : explorations of aging in Michèle Sarde's Constance et la cinquantaine and Nancy Huston's Dolce agonia
A daughter no more : (national) identity and the adult orphan in Loin de mon père by Véronique Tadjo
Writing the mother immortal : Cixous and Dupré.