ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores primary corpus suggests the correspondence of francophone Jewish women's writing with a larger paradigm. Two of the three principals, namely Israel and the Jewish mother, could also be construed as lieux de memoire in the sense of topoi that are fundamental to traditional Jewish memory. In this hermeneutic, Israel is a real, physical place that embodies ancestral Jewish memory of origins. Such exclusion of women from figurative archives based on signs of the body is ironic given Western philosophy's binaristic thinking, which has equated woman with body and man with mind. The book presents the primary texts out of the archives has not been merely to insert them into the canon of 'great' French literature, or even into a counter-canon of, for instance, French-language Jewish women writers.
