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- Title
Nuit de noces traumatique et crise de la conjugalité chez Claire Martin, Charlotte Savary et Reine Malouin: Vers une politisation des violences sexuelles en littérature québécoise.
- Authors
GIBEAU, ARIANE
- Abstract
Popular sentimental fiction makes marriage the ultimate goal of the characters and an ideal to be achieved, but sidesteps its representation. In contrast, women's narrative prose of the 1950s gives an important place to conjugal misery. While integrating traditional sentimental codes, their fiction is replete with mismatched, even hateful, couples and shows relentlessly the devastating effects of this relation between spouses. We get to the roots of this marital crisis by studying the motif of the wedding night. A traumatic moment for the female characters, the wedding night is revealed in several texts to be the cause of conjugal violences. Analyzing Claire Martin's "La Portion congrue" (1958), Charlotte Savary's Isabelle de Frêneuse (1950) and Reine Malouin's Cet ailleurs qui respire (1954), we show how the wedding night often leads to the annihilation of women and brings to light the inequalities generated by the quest for love. Represented to be criticized, this motif constitutes a gateway to the literary denunciation of sexual violences.
- Subjects
SENTIMENTAL fiction; SENTIMENTALISM in literature; MARTIN, Claire, b. 1914; VIOLENCE; FRENCH-Canadian literature
- Publication
Études Françaises, 2022, Vol 58, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0014-2085
- Publication type
Article