What impact did Cardinal's texts have on the 1970s feminist movement? What is her position in
relation to French women's writing and the French literary tradition today? This volume brings
together a series of papers given at the first international conference on the influential
feminist author Marie Cardinal. Leading critics of Cardinal's oeuvre engage in analysis
alongside new commentators in the field. The collection provides an extensive yet cohesive
overview of Cardinal's writing including original commentaries on earlier works like Cet
été-là popular classics like Les Mots pour le dire and more recent texts including Amour...
amours... Contributors provide new perspectives on Cardinal's oeuvre drawing from a range of
areas of scholarly interest including film studies life-writing postcolonial discourse
critical theory gender studies and reception theory.
