Abstract

Marie Cardinal and Multicultural Literacy.Marie Cardinal, raised in Algeria and now living in Montreal, is among France's best-known novelists. Taking the multicultural writings of Cardinal as her central focus, Carolyn Durham interweaves anglophone and francophone texts - critical and fictional, mainstream and feminist - to allow women's writings to engender their own theoretical paradigms. Durham interprets contemporary feminist writing as one particularly significant and complex intersection of modern thought - at once intergenderal, intertextual, interdisciplinary, and intercultural.