Autosociobiographies et autothéories de mères

Abstract

Motherhood and the relationship between mothers and children are a recurring theme in world literature. Since the beginning of the millennium, there has been a marked increase in the number of French-language narratives that deconstruct the mythologisation of the mother, which has long prevailed in artistic representation, and present her in new literary forms that oscillate between autobiography, fiction and essay. The increase in matrifocal narratives, which can be described as autosociobiography in the sense of Annie Ernaux or as autotheory in the sense of Lauren Fournier, forms the starting point of this anthology. The case studies on French and Francophone works deal with these genres from the point of view of the staging of motherhood.