Ottawa Launch: Writing Herself intro Being

Fifth Avenue Court, 99 Fifth Avenue (at Bank), Ottawa, ON K1S 5K4
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MQUP invites you to join Patricia Smart for the launch of Writing Herself into Being: Quebec Women’s Autobiographical Writings from Marie de l’Incarnation to Nelly Arcan.

The event will be held at the Fifth Avenue Court, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, on Sunday, December 10. 

Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being - the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) - offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.
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Patricia Smart is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of French and Canadian studies at Carleton University.

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