Holmes, D orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3582 (2023) La Vagabonde assise – space, place and the meaning of home in Colette and other women writers. French Cultural Studies, 34 (1). pp. 62-72. ISSN 0957-1558
Abstract
Nick Hewitt wrote wonderfully well about the significance of different places in French history and culture, and in our lives. Colette was a chronicler of places, from the famous childhood house and garden in Burgundy, to Brittany, Provence and of course Paris. But as her writing moves across regions and houses, home recurs as a crucial place in the emotional landscape of a human life. Nick was also always attentive to the relationship between canonical and ‘minor’ authors, and to the interplay between socio-political moment and cultural production. In this article home is examined as a vital and recurring theme not only in the work of Colette but also in that of her lesser-known female contemporaries – for home as a place has particular practical and emotional meanings for women.
L'une des dimensions pré cieuses de l'oeuvre critique de Nick Hewitt, c'est sa mise en valeur de l'importance de diffé rents lieux et espaces dans l'histoire et la culture de la France, comme dans la vie de chacun. Lieux et espaces jouent un rô le important dans les é crits de Colette, non seulement son é vocation de la maison natale à Saint-Sauveur, devenue cé lèbre, mais aussi celle d'autres maisons, du paysage bourguignon, de Bretagne, de Provence et bien sû r de Paris. Son é criture traverse diffé rentes ré gions et demeures mais l'un des thèmes ré currents c'est le foyer comme lieu crucial dans la vie affective de tout ê tre humain. Nick a toujours mis en avant aussi la relation entre les auteur-e-s canoniques et leurs contemporain-e-s dits “mineurs”, tout comme il a insisté sur le rapport ré ciproque entre moment socio-politique et production culturelle. Dans cet article, le thème vital du foyer est examiné non seulement dans l'oeuvre de Colette mais aussi dans celle des ses contemporaines moins connues de la pé riode entre les deux guerres. Car l'espace domestique - le foyer - a des significations pratiques et affectives particulières pour les femmes.
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Keywords: | Colette; home; Germaine Beaumont; inter-war; Irène Némirovsky; Suzanne Normand; women's writing; foyer; L'entre-deux-guerres; Écriture de femmes |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2022 15:35 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 01:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/09571558221144368 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193843 |