The work’s greatest strength is its attentiveness to the role of ageing and death in the emergence of transcultural expression.... The study provides an excellent springboard from which to reflect upon the questions raised.

Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Allison Connolly’s well crafted study is the first comprehensive exploration of literary transculturality as a potential space of resistance in Francophone Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa. It opens new windows and an ingenious framework to rethink and re-frame the debates in Francophone studies in the last two decades.

Martine Antle, University of Sydney

Spaces of Creation unveils the many facets and challenges of mother-daughter relationships and the power of mother’s voices beyond silence and death in various Francophone regions of the world beyond colonial times and in today’s world.

Dominique Fisher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill