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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world"--

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"In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta-her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing force inside her at odds with her sweet and obedient nature. Seeking answers, Kirabo begins spending afternoons with Nsuuta, a local witch, trading stories and learning not only about this force inside her, but about the woman who birthed her, who she learns is alive but not ready to meet. Nsuuta also explains that Kirabo has a streak of the "first woman"-an independent, original state that has been all but lost to women. Kirabo's journey to reconcile her rebellious origins, alongside her desire to reconnect with her mother and to honor her family's expectations, is rich in the folklore of Uganda and an arresting exploration of what it means to be a modern girl in a world that seems determined to silence women. Makumbi's unforgettable novel is a sweeping testament to the true and lasting connections between history, tradition, family, friends, and the promise of a different future"--Provided by publisher.

Abandoned children --- Abandoned children. --- FICTION / Coming of Age. --- FICTION / Cultural Heritage. --- FICTION / Women. --- Girls --- Girls. --- Self-realization --- Self-realization. --- Women --- Women. --- Uganda.

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Heroines in literature --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Pastoral fiction, English - History and criticism. --- Women and literature - Great Britain. --- Heroines in literature.

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Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"-including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig-she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.

82:396 --- American fiction --- -Authorship --- -English fiction --- -French fiction --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- Women and literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Women authors --- -History and criticism --- Sex differences --- Tolson, M. --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Authorship --- English fiction --- French fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature --- French literature --- English literature --- American literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- Canon (Literature). --- Theory, etc. --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- French fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Authorship - Sex differences --- Women and literature - English-speaking countries --- Women and literature - France --- Literature: history & criticism

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Fiction --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Mexico --- Mexican fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Mexican fiction - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Mexican fiction - 20th century - History and criticism.