Jacqueline Manicom (1935 – 1976) was a Guadeloupean writer, professor, broadcaster, feminist, and midwife, author of the novels Mon examen de blanc (1972) and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974).
Jacqueline Manicom | |
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 Jacqueline Manicom in 1961 | |
| Born | 1935 Guadeloupe |
| Died | 1976 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, midwife |
Early life edit
Manicom was born in Guadeloupe, the eldest of twenty children born to parents of South Asian origin.[1] She trained as a midwife, and studied law and philosophy in Paris.
Career edit
Manicom worked at a public hospital in Paris as a young woman. She also worked in radio and television, and taught philosophy courses. In the late 1960s she worked with Simone de Beauvoir on women's rights in France, was a founding member of Choisir la Cause des Femmes (CHOISIR), and especially focused her activism on the legalization of abortion.[2] She and her husband founded a family planning clinic in Guadeloupe.[3][4]
Manicom wrote two autobiographical novels in French,[5] Mon examen de blanc (1972)[6] and La graine : journal d'une sage-femme (1974),[7] both stories of Caribbean immigrant women in medical settings,[8] both with themes of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of French colonialism and French Caribbean independence.[9][10][11][12]
Personal life edit
Manicom married philosophy professor Yves Letourneur. They had two children. She died in 1976, aged 41 years.[2][4][13]
References edit
- ^ The new Oxford companion to literature in French. Peter France. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. ISBN 0-19-866125-8. OCLC 32305141.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle; Kramer, Regan (2019). "Contraception and abortion in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1964-1975)". Clio. Women, Gender, History (50): 89–112. ISSN 2554-3822. JSTOR 27077496.
- ^ Zimra, Clarisse. “Society’s Mirror: A Sociological Study of Guadeloupe’s Jacqueline Manicom.” Présence Francophone 19 (1979): 143–156.
- ^ a b Springfield, Consuelo López (1997). Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century. Indiana University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-253-21092-0.
- ^ Haigh, Sam (2000). Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women's Writing from Guadeloupe. MHRA. ISBN 978-1-902653-20-4.
- ^ Manicom, Jacqueline (1972). Mon Examen de Blanc: Roman. Editions Sarrazin.
- ^ Manicom, Jacqueline (1974-01-01). La graine: Journal d'une sage-femme (in French). (Presses de la Cité) réédition numérique FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-258-18771-9.
- ^ Romero, Ivette. “The Umbilical Cord: Motherhood and Displacement in the Work of Jacqueline Manicom.” Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women’s Writing 13, no. 1 (2000): 32–42.
- ^ Wilson, Betty (1987). "Sexual, Racial, And National Politics: Jacqueline Manicom's "Mon examen de blanc"". Journal of West Indian Literature. 1 (2): 50–57. ISSN 0258-8501. JSTOR 23019559.
- ^ Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth (Winter 1992). "Feminism, Race, and Difference in the Works of Mayotte Capécia, Michèle Lacrosil, and Jacqueline Manicom". Callaloo. 15 (1): 66–74. doi:10.2307/2931400. JSTOR 2931400.
- ^ Goolcharan-Kumeta, Wendy (2003). My mother, my country : reconstructing the female self in Guadeloupean women's writing. Oxford: P. Lang. ISBN 3-906769-76-3. OCLC 51728380.
- ^ Meehan, Kevin (Fall 2006). "Romance and Revolution: Women's Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 25: 291–306.
- ^ Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography. Franklin W. Knight, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates. Oxford. 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-993580-2. OCLC 952785428.
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External links edit
- Sybil Shevron Jackson, "Dark Phoenix: The Representation of Black Woman in Je Suis Martiniquaise by Mayotte Capecia and Mon Examen De Blanc by Jacqueline Manicom" (PhD dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1999).
- Vivienne Liley, "Division and fragmentation in the work of three Gualdeloupean novelists: Mic'hele Lacrosil, Jacqueline Manicom and Simone Schwarz-Bart" (PhD thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1993).