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Wikipedia article
'The Words to Say It' is an autobiographical novel by Marie Cardinal, first published in French as 'Les Mots pour le dire' in 1976. The novel deals with Cardinal's childhood in Algeria, her sense of loss on leaving, her relationship with her mother, mental illness, and recovery through psychoanalysis.'The Words to Say It', in Barbara Fister, 'Third World Women's Literature: a dictionary and guide to materials in English', Greenwood Press, 1995.
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Further reading
* Dammann, Hiltrud. 'Marie Cardinals "Les mots pour le dire": Autobiographisches weibliches Schreiben im Kontext der 68er Bewegung', C. Winter, 1994
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* Hoft-March, Eilene. [http://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1427&context=sttcl Cardinal's The Words to Say it: The Words to Reproduce Mother], 'Studies in 20th Century Literature' 21:2 (1997), pp. 4
* Martin, Elaine, 'Mother, Madness, and the Middle Class in 'The Bell Jar' and 'Les Mots pour le dire', 'The French-American Review' 5:1 (Spring 1981), pp. 2447
* Powrie, Phil. 'Reading for Pleasure: Marie Cardinal's 'Les Mots pour le dire' and the Text as (Re)play of Oedipal Configurations', in Margaret Atack and Phil Powrie, eds., 'Contemporary French Fiction by Women: Feminist Perspectives', Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
* Robson, Kathryn. 'The Hysterical Body in 'La Souricire' and 'Les Mots pour le dire', in Emma Webb, ed., 'Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives', Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 93106
* Wagner, Walter. 'Les Mots pour le dire' ou la dialectique de l'aveu', , in Emma Webb, ed., 'Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives', Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 171186
Category:Algerian novels
Category:1976 novels
Category:1976 in Algeria
Category:Autobiographical novels
Category:French-language novels
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